Kitchen Production Supervisor
About The Position
My Healthy Penguin is hiring a Kitchen Production Supervisor to help lead our day-to-day kitchen production operations. This role is responsible for keeping the kitchen floor organized, productive, clean, and on standard during assigned shifts. The Kitchen Production Supervisor will support the Head Chef / Director of Culinary Operations by supervising cooks, helping execute the daily production plan, enforcing recipe and portioning standards, maintaining food safety procedures, and stepping into a floor leadership role when the Head Chef is not present. This is a hands-on leadership position. The right person is comfortable cooking, directing a team, holding standards, solving problems in real time, and keeping production moving in a fast-paced commercial kitchen.
Requirements
- Previous experience in a commercial kitchen, commissary kitchen, catering kitchen, meal prep kitchen, or high-volume food production environment
- Strong understanding of food safety, sanitation, labeling, storage, and production standards
- Ability to follow and enforce recipes, portioning standards, and written procedures
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to stay calm, organized, and productive in a fast-paced kitchen
- Reliable, punctual, hands-on, and comfortable holding others accountable
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience leading, training, or supervising kitchen staff preferred
- ServSafe Food Manager certification preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead cooks and kitchen production staff during assigned shifts
- Execute the daily production plan and help keep the team on schedule
- Ensure recipes, portioning standards, quality standards, and plating expectations are followed
- Monitor food quality, consistency, and presentation throughout production
- Train, coach, and support new and existing kitchen employees
- Enforce food safety, sanitation, HACCP, PFR, and company kitchen procedures
- Conduct line checks, quality checks, and end-of-shift kitchen inspections
- Help maintain FIFO, product rotation, labeling, storage, and organization standards
- Support receiving, storage, and inventory organization as needed
- Communicate production issues, staffing concerns, shortages, equipment problems, or quality concerns to leadership
- Maintain a clean, organized, safe, and efficient work environment
- Participate in prep and cooking as needed to support production
- Step into floor leadership when the Head Chef / Director of Culinary Operations is not present
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
