Culinary Lead: Team Captain for High-Quality Meals

Thistle; Burlington (NJ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Thistle is seeking a Lead, Culinary to supervise a team in our Kitchen. You will ensure cooking, cooling, and staging align with recipes, while maintaining workflow continuity on the kitchen floor, including prep, hotline, staging, and dish room.

Reporting to the Culinary Supervisor, you will supervise Culinary Associates and dishwashers, drive efficiency, manage allergies, and uphold GMP standards. This role involves training, cross-department communication, and hands-on leadership on a

Responsibilities

• Support Production Leadership in overseeing the production process on the kitchen floor, including Production execution, Quality Control/Quality Assurance, and time tracking.
• Ensure employees are following GMPs, products are consistently produced and controlled according to policy.
• Assist on training, instruction, and support on all kitchen equipment.
• Maintain a positive work environment with encouraging and supportive leadership.
• Communicate with supervisors and managers any concerns regarding staff members' concerns or frustrations.
• Driving and pushing the culinary team for better efficiency and accuracy in meeting targeted goals and deadlines for the shift.
• Organizing the staging area with the correct components and materials via requisitions
• Understanding and communicating which meal SKU the line will be working on and addressing any major allergies, meal specifics, and/or other pertinent information
• Ensure that sanitation buckets, cleaning solutions, and materials are on the line prior to culinary production, and make sure all GMPs are followed.
• Understand the targeted weight volume needed to fulfill meals and anticipate early enough to provide the Kitchen ample time to supplement the short called-out
• Ensure all documentation, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance are conducted, completed, and submitted after the end of the shift.
• Communicating break and lunchtime allotted and expectations of when to return to the kitchen floor or dish pit. Ensuring that all associates returning are on time and are accounted for.
• Updating and utilizing digital tools such as OKRA, Galley, Culinary Production Schedule, and other digital tools needed with accurate weights binned, times on projects, progression of numbers in real-time.
• Submit all Documentation to the Quality Control office daily. Ensure that Meal Components are properly labeled with the correct amount, date, meal code, & Allergy stickers.
• Identify and communicate all shorts, including, but not limited to, bin weights, components, meal count shorts, etc.
• Proper updates and communication are needed on Slack, face to face between all departments, emails and/or other necessary methods, such as the call-out line, phone, meetings, etc.
• Report all broken equipment, broken smallwares, and maintenance repair needs to the Supervisor or the Manager
• Understanding and communicating which meal the team will be working on and address any major allergies, meal specifics and/or other pertinent information
• Properly store all ingredients, separate different allergens from each other and from non-allergens.
• Assist with the culinary department on cleaning and sanitizing all working areas within the kitchen department.
• Additional duties that may be assigned

Job description

Thistle is seeking a Lead, Culinary to supervise a team in our Kitchen. You will ensure cooking, cooling, and staging align with recipes, while maintaining workflow continuity on the kitchen floor, including prep, hotline, staging, and dish room.

Reporting to the Culinary Supervisor, you will supervise Culinary Associates and dishwashers, drive efficiency, manage allergies, and uphold GMP standards. This role involves training, cross-department communication, and hands-on leadership on a