Food Production & Operations Manager
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Job summary
Square Fare is an early-stage company in Long Island City seeking a hands-on operations and food production leader to build our operating engine. You’ll own a team producing ~1,500 personalized meals each week, including planning, plating, dispatch, catering, customer service, order management and continuous process improvement.
This role blends floor leadership with a desk job, bridging kitchen staff, packers and delivery coordination.
Qualifications
- 4+ years in food operations, catering, or high-volume kitchens.
- Strong leadership under pressure and team management.
- Detail-oriented with focus on consistency and execution.
- Comfortable using data and basic reporting.
Responsibilities
- Oversee production, plating, and packing for ~1,500 meals weekly.
- Manage dispatch, labeling, and order accuracy.
- Lead process improvements to speed and efficiency.
- Support catering growth and back-end customer support.
Skills
Job description
Square Fare is a Long Island City-based early-stage company that is reinventing how to help people make healthy choices. We make fresh meals from scratch and that are individually-tailored to the needs of every client (calories, macros, food restrictions). We collaborate very closely with nutritionists, hospitals, fitness trainers and more to support their clients.
We're looking for a hands-on operations and food production leader to build our operating engine! You'll own a team producing ~1,500 personalized meals each week (and growing), including planning, plating, dispatch, catering, customer service, order management and continuous process improvement.
Schedule 5 day / week role
Required: Sunday (primary production + dispatch day). If you can do Saturday, that would be great too because good preparation on Saturday helps with smooth Sunday operations.
- Order accuracy
This is both a floor leadership role and a desk job. You’ll be responsible for ensuring smooth, efficient execution from prep through final dispatch during kitchen operations time. You’ll act as the bridge between kitchen staff, packers, and delivery coordination. During the week, you'll be developing our catering business and handling back end customer support and our order management system.
- Manage plating/assembly line for high-volume meal prep (we do about 1500 meals on weekends and growing)
- Ensure consistency, portion accuracy, and presentation standards
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in real time
- Oversee packaging, labeling, and order accuracy
- Coordinate dispatch timing and routing readiness
- Ensure all orders leave complete and on schedule
- Recruit, supervise and direct plating team (typically 8–12 staff right now)
- Set the pace, assign roles, and maintain accountability
- Step in wherever needed to keep operations flowing
- Continuously refine systems for speed, accuracy, and efficiency
- Help implement SOPs and basic tracking systems
- Improve yields and profitability
- Coordinate production with kitchen team
- Handle all communications with clients
Flag errors in team meeting and come up with solutions - Oversee order management portal including inputting of new dishes, managing client subscriptions, order adjustments, and running all reports
- 4+ years in food operations, catering, meal prep, or high-volume kitchen environments
- Strong organizational and leadership skills under pressure
- Experience managing small teams in fast-paced settings
- Detail-oriented with a focus on consistency and execution
- Very comfortable with data and spreadsheets
- Comfortable with food safety standards and compliance and have Food Handler's Certificate
- Comfortable being on your feet and actively working during shifts
- Nice to Have Experience with meal delivery or meal prep businesses
- Low error rate
- Efficient team flow with minimal downtime
- Controlled food and packaging waste
- Growing catering sales
- A Happy team :)
this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000
Square Fare is a Long Island City-based early-stage company that is reinventing how to help people make healthy choices. We make fresh meals from scratch and that are individually-tailored to the needs of every client (calories, macros, food restrictions). We collaborate very closely with nutritionists, hospitals, fitness trainers and more to support their clients.
We're looking for a hands-on operations and food production leader to build our operating engine! You'll own a team producing ~1,500 personalized meals each week (and growing), including planning, plating, dispatch, catering, customer service, order management and continuous process improvement.
Schedule 5 day / week role
Required: Sunday (primary production + dispatch day). If you can do Saturday, that would be great too because good preparation on Saturday helps with smooth Sunday operations.
- Order accuracy
- On-time dispatch
- Waste reduction
- Team efficiency
- Client retention
This is both a floor leadership role and a desk job. You’ll be responsible for ensuring smooth, efficient execution from prep through final dispatch during kitchen operations time. You’ll act as the bridge between kitchen staff, packers, and delivery coordination. During the week, you'll be developing our catering business and handling back end customer support and our order management system.
- Manage plating/assembly line for high-volume meal prep (we do about 1500 meals on weekends and growing)
- Ensure consistency, portion accuracy, and presentation standards
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in real time
- Oversee packaging, labeling, and order accuracy
- Coordinate dispatch timing and routing readiness
- Ensure all orders leave complete and on schedule
- Recruit, supervise and direct plating team (typically 8–12 staff right now)
- Set the pace, assign roles, and maintain accountability
- Step in wherever needed to keep operations flowing
- Continuously refine systems for speed, accuracy, and efficiency
- Help implement SOPs and basic tracking systems
- Improve yields and profitability
- Coordinate production with kitchen team
- Handle all execution
- Handle all communications with clients
Flag errors in team meeting and come up with solutions - Oversee order management portal including inputting of new dishes, managing client subscriptions, order adjustments, and running all reports
- 4+ years in food operations, catering, meal prep, or high-volume kitchen environments
- Strong organizational and leadership skills under pressure
- Experience managing small teams in fast-paced settings
- Detail-oriented with a focus on consistency and execution
- Very comfortable with data and spreadsheets
- Comfortable with food safety standards and compliance and have Food Handler's Certificate
- Comfortable being on your feet and actively working during shifts
- Nice to Have Experience with meal delivery or meal prep businesses
- Some corporate catering sales experience
- Smooth, on-time weekend production
- Low error rate
- Efficient team flow with minimal downtime
- Controlled food and packaging waste
- Growing catering sales
- A Happy team :)
this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000
no deadline
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