Catering Manager

Flagship Facility Services; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Flagship Facility Services in San Francisco seeks a Catering Manager to oversee the catering department and lead a small team to ensure events run smoothly. You will coordinate with staff and vendors, manage calendars, and handle requests for internal and external functions.

You will maintain high culinary standards, organize pastry, beverage, and alcohol orders, and ensure safety and sanitation compliance across all events. This role is based in the San Francisco area.

Qualifications

• Culinary degree preferred but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• 3-5 years of catering manager experience.
• Strong safety and sanitation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Attend meetings with employees regarding catering requests.
• Manage the catering team and calendars.
• Organize catering calendar and special events.
• Coordinate orders, vendor liaison, and materials for events.
• Prepare catering packets and event briefs.
• Schedule setup, delivery, and pick-up for catering.

Skills

Culinary skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Excellent verbal skills

Multi-tasking

Safety and sanitation

Event management

Education

Culinary Degree (preferred)

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience (preferred)

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

The pay rate or range for this position is: $85,000 to $100,000 per year

Job Summary

As a Catering Manager for our company you will be responsible for the operation of the catering department by performing a variety of tasks to support and run events. Manage a small group of employees to ensure all events run smoothly.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Attend meetings with employees regarding their catering request

• Managing the catering team

• Organizing catering calendar and special events

• Answering emails from employees and catering tickets that are created through the event tool

• Putting together the catering order on the catering calendar

• Contacting employees regarding their catering request and get the proper approval/info to support the event

• Updated the event ticket for table/power needs (if needed) to support in house catering

• Supporting Sol on catering request

• Placing pastry orders with the Pastry Team by Thursday for the next week

• Placing orders with Canteen for sodas/water request by Thursday for the next week

• Placing orders with Willow’s Market for alcohol orders by Thursday for the next week

• Send employees their alcohol and non-alcohol receipts as soon as you receive them from vendor

• Make sure team returns leftover alcohol to employees by the end of the week

• Creating catering packets for team

• Schedule setup, delivery, and pick-up for catering

• Meet with team to go over catering packets and duties

• Communicating with our team about last min. add-on’s

• Working on catering event request for next week and updating packets with last min. add-on’s

• Sending friendly calendar invites to inform chef’s about high profile events happening inside of the café, when food trucks will be on hack square during service, & when there are more than 15 external guest that will dine at the café

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent culinary skills

• Interpersonal and organizational skills

• Utilization of knife cuts in a safe, efficient manner

• Sense of urgency

• Excellent verbal skills

• Excellent multi-tasking skills

• Professional appearance

• Ability to move throughout the café and kitchen

• Knowledge of safety and sanitation in the work place

• High volume production & large batch cooking

• Ability to handle kitchen equipment and tools safely

• Event Management skills such as how to read a BEO, ordering, set up and break down of events

• Management experience

Education and Work Experience

• Culinary Degree (preferred but not required)

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience preferred

• 3-5 years’ experience in a Catering Manager role

Work Environment

• The work environment for Catering Manager includes the following large kitchen environment elements and exposures

• Fast paced kitchen

• High sense of urgency

• Moderate to high noise level

• Exposure to soap and cleaning solutions

• Slippery/uneven surfaces may be encountered

• Frequently moving from cold freezer to normal kitchen environment

Requirements

• Must have and maintain an active Food Handlers Card, as required by the California Health Department.

Physical Demands

• Some heavy lifting (may lift 10-50 lbs.) and possible moving of equipment required

• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision for safe navigation of work area and use of equipment

• Heavy and repetitive hand and arm motion involved in production and clean up

• Standing, walking, bending/twisting, and balance are all required to perform job task

• Reaching across surfaces while moving containers, reaching above shoulders for containers for removal and storage

• Standing a minimum of 8 hours a day

• Carrying containers of different sizes and different types of product of all shapes and sizes

• Removing hot items from oven

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. Physical requirements include stooping, standing, climbing and frequent lifting of a minimum of 50 lbs. of equipment. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization

Authorized to work in the U.S.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Flagship is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job.

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