Hot Kitchen Production Supervisor — Lead & Optimize

Flying Food Group; Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 60,112 - 81,328; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Prescription coverage

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Accident coverage

Critical illness coverage

Hospital indemnity plans

Flexible spending accounts

Employee assistance program

Commuter benefits

Retirement plan 401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Flying Food Group in Gardena, CA is seeking a full-time production supervisor to lead and coordinate kitchen staff, ensure recipes are followed, and meet daily food production targets in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires strong HACCP knowledge, the ability to manage schedules, control costs, and maintain safety and hygiene standards while guiding a team through production cycles and overtime management.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, guidance and supervision to employees to enable them to work more effectively
• Knowledge of Hot Food production processes
• Improve production process to increase productivity and process controls
• Ensure "food ready time" is met daily for Cold Food packing
• Ensure all cooks accurately follow recipes and meals are produced to specification; ask questions
• Ensure no shortages occur and portions control is accurately managed
• Train employee in production processes and measurements
• Proactively attend to employee relations issues to resolve them effectively and promptly
• Ensure controls are in place to manage food costs and report waste
• Manage rotation of hot meals produced and minimize waste
• Manage rotation of bulk food production to FIFO
• Hold regular F2F communication meeting with employees to review production results
• Hold regular F2F communication meeting with employees to review safety & hygiene
• Communicate shift schedule changes to employees
• Manage production schedules and processes to minimize overtime
• Manage work force accountability and ensure employees have tools needed for production
• Prepare purchasing orders daily for purchasing dept. to meet production requirements
• Prepare daily production orders for storeroom to ensure product is pulled and thawed on time for production
• Ensure that HACCP standards are achieved and control documents are completed
• Verify all production sheets at the end of each shift to ensure all items were produced
• Knowledge of internal policies and procedures
• Knowledge of HACCP requirements, GMP and sanitation requirements.
• Competent to work independently, ask questions and seek direction as needed.
• Knows and follows all safety requirements; strives to maintain a safe work environment.
• Effectively gives and receives feedback
• Must be able to function within a team environment.

Job description

Flying Food Group in Gardena, CA is seeking a full-time production supervisor to lead and coordinate kitchen staff, ensure recipes are followed, and meet daily food production targets in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires strong HACCP knowledge, the ability to manage schedules, control costs, and maintain safety and hygiene standards while guiding a team through production cycles and overtime management.