Kitchen Operations Lead: Build Scalable Systems

Kelly Professional & Industrial; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly Professional & Industrial is seeking a hands-on Kitchen Operations Manager to provide strong production leadership, build scalable systems, and ensure alignment of production, inventory and fulfillment with remote executive leadership.

The role requires leading daily kitchen production, developing schedules, managing inventory and driving KPIs while maintaining food safety and quality in a full-time, on-site setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading food production and high-volume operations.
• Strong hands-on production leadership experience.
• Ability to build systems and processes within a growing operation.
• Production planning, scheduling and inventory management skills.
• Experience managing KPIs and performance metrics.
• Excellent communication with senior/remote leadership.
• Food safety knowledge/certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily kitchen production to meet orders on schedule.
• Build repeatable systems and SOPs for scalability.
• Develop production schedules and plan labor, ingredients, inventory and capacity.
• Establish inventory controls including purchasing needs and waste management.
• Provide proactive updates to remote executive leadership on production status and risks.
• Coach and develop Shift Leads and production staff.

Skills

Food production leadership

Systems thinking

Communication

Inventory management

Job description

Kelly Professional & Industrial is seeking a hands-on Kitchen Operations Manager to provide strong production leadership, build scalable systems, and ensure alignment of production, inventory and fulfillment with remote executive leadership.

The role requires leading daily kitchen production, developing schedules, managing inventory and driving KPIs while maintaining food safety and quality in a full-time, on-site setting.