Kitchen Manager - Surly Pizza Grand Forks

Surly Brewing Co; Grand Forks (ND); On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a world-class brewery as a Kitchen Manager for our new Surly Pizza location in Grand Forks. This hands-on role involves managing a team, ensuring high-quality pizza production, and handling administrative duties. With competitive pay and generous benefits, you will thrive in a vibrant, instigative culture while leading a passionate kitchen crew.

Benefits

Medical/Dental Insurance

401k + match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Free beer

Food + merchandise discounts

Cell phone reimbursement

Qualifications

• Kitchen vet with management experience, preferably in pizza.
• Ability to handle high-volume service in a scratch kitchen.
• Organizational skills for admin tasks like payroll and inventory.

Responsibilities

• Manage hiring, scheduling, and training of the kitchen team.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization in a high-output kitchen.
• Perform administrative work including payroll and inventory management.

Skills

Management experience

Creative

Detail-oriented

Leadership

Comfortable in high-volume service

Job description

Instigate. That’s the word that brought you to this page. An opportunity to do something new, to challenge yourself, to work at a world-class brewery and hospitality operation. Join us and thrive.

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Position:Kitchen Manager - Surly Pizza Grand Forks

Location: Grand Forks, ND

Job Id:465

# of Openings:1

You settle all the time. On bad dates. Crappy landlords. Airplane seats. But your job? That shouldn’t be one of them.

At Surly, not settling is the whole point. It’s what drove us from a two-person operation in a Brooklyn Center abrasives factory to one of the Top 50 Craft Breweries in the country. We don’t hire warm bodies. We hire passionate, talented people, give them the tools to crush it, and back them with solid pay, killer benefits, and a culture that doesn’t suck. If that sounds like your kind of place, let’s talk.

About the gig:
Surly Pizza is our award-winning pizza and beer hall in Minneapolis, Minneapolis. Now, we’re bringing the heat to Grand Forks—and we need a badass Kitchen Manager to lead the charge. This is a hands-on role. You’ll be in the kitchen, managing the team, keeping the trains running on time, and making damn good pizza.

Before we open, you’ll train with our team at the mothership in Minneapolis (length of time TBD) to get fully dialed in on recipes, prep systems, and the Surly way of doing things. Surly will be picking up the tab to cover housing costs associated with the training in Minneapolis. As this is a satellite location, there will be some extra admin duties, so being organized and proactive is key.

You are:
• A kitchen vet with management experience (bonus points if you’ve worked with pizza)
• Comfortable in a scratch kitchen with high-volume service
• Creative, detail-obsessed, and calm under pressure
• A people person who leads from the line, not the office
• Able to handle heat (literally—it’s a kitchen)
• Ready to stand, hustle, and do what it takes to lead a top-tier crew

You’ll handle:
• Hiring, scheduling, and leading the hourly team
• Training new staff to Surly standards
• Maintaining a clean, organized, high-output kitchen
• Admin work like payroll reporting and inventory

Perks + Pay:
• Salary: $55k–$65k
• Bonus: Up to $10k based on sales, labor, and food cost
• Benefits: Medical/Dental, 401k + match, PTO, free beer (yep), food + merch discounts, cell phone reimbursement, and more

Surly was built on instigation. Challenging the status quo, charting our own course, and welcoming others to join us. We’re always looking for fellow instigators.

Culture

At Surly, we’re an employer that pays competitive wages, offers excellent benefits, and surrounds you with equally capable, talented people, providing beer, beverages and hospitality to a world sorely in need of all three. It’s why we do what we do.

We’re not a “here’s a free case of beer, good luck fixing your kid’s teeth” brewery. Our benefits are wide-ranging and generous: health insurance, dental, 401K, abundant PTO, and yes, monthly beer/beverage benefits.

Community

We have a vigorous volunteer program through our Surly Gives A Damn arm. It’s a great way to help in the community and see what we are all about.