Culinary Field Specialist: On‑Site Kitchen Leader

careers-ucfs; Pullman (WA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Upper Crust Food Service seeks a Culinary Field Specialist to lead real-time kitchen operations across our subregion. You’ll taste, coach, and troubleshoot with chefs, ensuring consistent quality and safety from house to house.

This hands-on role lives in the kitchens, not an office, and requires travel across the subregion. You’ll build leadership experience toward Area Manager while keeping schedules, vendors, and on-site partnerships running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Real time in a kitchen; line cook, sous chef, kitchen manager, chef experience.
• A palate you trust and an eye that catches what's off before someone tells you.
• Patience to teach and the backbone to hold a standard, sometimes in the same conversation.
• Enough organizational instinct to run a schedule and fix a broken sauce in the same afternoon.
• A level head when a kitchen needs help right now.
• Ability to talk technique with a chef at 6 AM and give a calm update at 10 AM.
• Willingness to be on the road within your subregion; kitchen-based role, not inbox.
• Interest in building a career in culinary field leadership.

Responsibilities

• Kitchen standards and chef coaching across subregion.
• Solving problems in the field with chefs; bringing fixes and context.
• Staffing and scheduling to ensure adequate hands each shift.
• Vendors and ingredients coordination for on-time deliveries and setup.
• Working with on-site partners and managing contractor relationships.
• Hands-on kitchen leadership to keep quality high across locations.

Skills

Kitchen experience

Line cook

Sous chef

Kitchen manager

Chef

Palate intuition

Organizational skills

Travel readiness

Job description

Upper Crust Food Service seeks a Culinary Field Specialist to lead real-time kitchen operations across our subregion. You’ll taste, coach, and troubleshoot with chefs, ensuring consistent quality and safety from house to house.

This hands-on role lives in the kitchens, not an office, and requires travel across the subregion. You’ll build leadership experience toward Area Manager while keeping schedules, vendors, and on-site partnerships running smoothly.