Kitchen Manager

ASM Global-SMG; United States; On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Global-SMG is seeking a Kitchen Manager to lead culinary and stewarding operations in our facility, ensuring quality food production for large events and smooth kitchen workflows. This role reports to the Director of Food & Beverage and serves as second in command in absence of the Executive Chef.

You will manage purchasing, receiving, inventory, and cost controls, while training staff, maintaining health department standards, and collaborating with banquet teams to deliver exceptional guest

Qualifications

• At least four years of culinary experience in a banquet facility.
• Serve-Safe certification and health code adherence.
• Strong written and spoken communication.
• Ability to manage budgets and inventory.

Responsibilities

• Ordering, receiving and preparing food items.
• Maintaining food costs and budget goals.
• Produce items per Banquet Event Orders.
• Overseeing stewarding and kitchen staff.
• Training staff on health and safety standards.
• Maintain kitchen equipment cleanliness and maintenance.
• Assist with monthly inventory.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Organizational skills

Multi-tasking

Excel

Team leadership

Food safety

Tools

Excel

Job description

POSITION: Kitchen Manager DEPARTMENT: Food & Beverage REPORTS TO: Director of Food & Beverage FLSA: Fulltime, Hourly $20 - $22 per hour Summary POSITION SUMMARY This position is second in command over the culinary and stewarding departments and is responsible for purchasing receiving and producing food items in the facility in the absence of the Executive Chef. Overseeing the stewarding department. Training of all kitchen and stewarding personnel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ordering, receiving and preparing food items.
• Maintaining food costs and budget goals.
• Produce required product according to Banquet Event Orders for each event.
• Maintains an active role in local hospitality community and professional associations.
• Attend in-house event-related meetings and relays immediate changes with other departments.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Maintaining all kitchen equipment cleanliness and annual maintenance.
• Training of all kitchen and stewarding staff to in clued "Serve-safe" and any health department regulations.
• Maintain a Health Department score of 90 or higher.
• Inventory controls.
• Responsible for Kitchen in absence of Executive Chef.
• Assists with monthly inventory.
• Training of all cooks.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervises all kitchen and stewarding staff.

Education and/or Experience

• At least four years of culinary experience in a banquet facility-producing meals for large events.

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Strong orientation to customer service and ability to work with other staff members in the facility.
• Results oriented individual with the ability to meet required budgetary goals.
• Excellent organizational, planning, communication, and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to undertake and complete multiple tasks.
• Computer skills to include Excel programs.
• Must adhere to local Health Department codes.
• Ability to be creative with food presentations and maintain a quality product.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Serve-Safe certified.

Physical Demands 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position requires minimal stooping and lifting. Substantial standing, walking and manual dexterity to operate office equipment such as a computer is required.

NOTE:

NOTE: The essential responsibilities of this position are described under the headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Also, this document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.