Kitchen Engineer

Recipe Unlimited Corporation; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

20% dining discount card

Monthly dining allowance

Job summary

Recipe Unlimited Corporation is seeking a Kitchen Engineer to deliver operational consulting across our brand portfolio. You will influence solutions to increase restaurant production capacity and reduce labor and ergonomic risks through disciplined engineering analysis and innovative design.

You will partner with Menu & Packaging, Food Safety, Culinary, and Operations to align strategic direction and ensure projects meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or similar field.
• Master's degree in engineering preferred.
• 2–5 years of engineering experience with strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME guidance for Restaurant Operational Feasibility and process insights across Recipe brands.
• Map process flows for priority brands and understand guest-per-hour models.
• Identify bottlenecks, prioritize problems, and recommend improvements to increase throughput and reduce complexity.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure projects meet business needs within constraints.
• Deliver continuous improvement recommendations for energy reduction and efficiency.

Skills

Bachelor's degree or higher

Industrial Engineering

Leadership

Communication

Google Docs/Sheets/Slides

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or similar

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

199 Four Valley Dr, Concord, ON L4K 0B8, Canada

Job Description

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Recipe Unlimited Corporation is Canada’s leading full service restaurant company. Home to such iconic brands as Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s, St.Hubert, Montana’s, Olive Garden Canada, Kelseys, Bier Markt, East Side Mario’s, The Landing Restaurant Group, New York Fries, The Pickle Barrel & Catering, State & Main, Elephant and Castle, Original Joe’s, Fresh Kitchen + Juice Bar, The Burger’s Priest, Blanco Cantina and Anejo. With this diverse portfolio of restaurants our Home Office Teammates have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of some of the most popular, well-loved brands in Canada. Variety isn’t the only thing we offer – we are passionate about our industry, we celebrate and support diversity of thought, we are innately curious and encourage our Teammates to take ownership. Above all else, we believe in doing the right thing for our people, our communities and our planet.

The Kitchen Engineer provides operational consulting to cross-functional stakeholders who drive new menu or packaging items and new food-production equipment, systems, and process projects from conception to implementation. This engineer is specifically tasked with developing and influencing solutions to increase the production capacity of restaurants and decrease complexity, labour, or ergonomic risk for team members.

This engineer needs to be skilled and confident in influencing and communicating with cross-functional partners at all levels of the organization. A significant contribution will be utilizing disciplined engineering analysis, problem-solving, and innovative design principles. The position must understand current state-of-the-art food-industry equipment designs and apply innovative, forward-thinking design initiatives.

What you'll do in this role:

• Provide SME (Small to Medium Enterprises) to all Recipe brands needing restaurant Operational Feasibility and process insight
• Provide a thorough understanding and process flow mapping of all our priority brands
• Provide thorough knowledge of Recipe brands Guest per hour models
• Identify barriers, bottlenecks, and pain points to continued profitable growth, prioritize problems to solve, and recommend improvements
• Find opportunities to optimize throughput and increase the speed of service for priority brands
• Influence partners across multiple brands and departments to direct large, high-impact programs related to restaurant capacity and complexity improvement
• Establish an operator feedback tool, allowing all ideas to be shared efficiently
• Provide continuous improvement recommendations for energy reduction
• Partner with high-level leadership within Recipe brands and departments, including Menu & Packaging, Food Safety, Culinary, Operations and Restaurant Central Operations Analytics, to craft strategy and ensure alignment
• Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that projects meet all business needs and are successfully executed within constraints
• Leverage skills as an individual contributor and in a technical leadership capacity
• Align strategy and work output with various cross-functional disciplines including, but not limited to, other teams within Design, Construction, Supply Chain, Kitchen Design, Culinary and Operations
• Influence strategic direction by providing input that directly impacts specific programs or areas of the business that have a broader impact across the organization

What we are looking for from you:

• Bachelor's Degree, background in Industrial Engineering or a similar discipline (Master's Degree in Engineering Discipline preferred)
• Salary $80,000-$100,000 + Annual Bonus + other incentives.
• 2-5 years of engineering experience (Industrial Engineering preferred) with high interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership to stakeholders
• Ability to work with wide latitude for unreviewed action or decision on outcomes
• Advanced project management skills demonstrated
• Previous experience working in a Restaurant
• Excellent communication, relational, and team skills to enable interaction with restaurant team members, as well as corporate peers and leaders
• Knowledge of producing and maintaining technical specification documents on both process and equipment improvement opportunities
• Experience leading cross-functional teams that include both technical and non-technical aptitudes
• Proficiency in Google (Doc, Sheets, Slides)

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible/Hybrid work environment
• You’d be joining a close-knit, innovative team of creative and energetic go-getters
• You’d be a part of Canada’s largest full-service restaurant company that leads the industry in size and innovation
• 20% associate discount dining card and monthly dining allowance valid at participating Recipe brands
• A welcoming, fun and safe work environment founded on respect
• Career advancement opportunities with a company that owns some of Canada’s most iconic restaurant brands
• Industry-leading benefits, wellness programs, and total rewards programs

Recipe is committed to providing a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. Celebrating people, being passionate and curious, owning it, and doing the right thing are the values that guide how we build our teams, support our franchisees and create a company that unlocks the full potential of everyone.

Recipe is dedicated to providing accommodations in accordance with applicable human rights and accommodation legislation. For individuals that require accommodations please contact [e-mail]

199 Four Valley Dr, Concord, ON L4K 0B8, Canada