On-Site Chef Ops Lead: Launch & Scale Kitchens

CookUnity; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance coverage with Cigna

Weekly payments

Opportunity for advancement

Family meal served daily

Job summary

CookUnity is seeking a hands-on Chef Operations Supervisor to support licensed culinary stores, coordinating daily kitchen operations with the General Manager and licensed operations teams. You’ll identify risks, coach leaders, and drive corrective actions to sustain improvements and independent execution.

Assigned stores are the primary focus, with potential involvement in strategic chef launches and team development when capacity allows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in high-volume culinary operations or multi-unit settings.
• Experience leading production in a time-sensitive environment.
• Ability to diagnose operational problems from observation and data.

Responsibilities

• Lead onboarding, kitchen setup, training, trials, and launch readiness for licensed stores.
• Develop launch plans with the GM to ensure staffing, recipes, ingredients, equipment, and safety readiness.
• Verify recipes and processes can be produced consistently and provide feedback to Product Development.
• Recommend go/no-go decisions and support launches and ramp-up.
• Monitor production readiness, identify risks, and maintain visibility during peak periods.
• Coach chefs and kitchen leaders on shift planning, quality reviews, staffing, and training.
• Develop improvement plans and escalate critical issues with evidence.
• Contain and recover from disruptions, maintaining ownership between operators and CookUnity teams.
• Maintain logs and drive root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and verification.
• Ensure adherence to recipes, temperatures, yields, portions, and brand requirements.

Skills

High-volume operations

Production planning

Labor management

Quality systems

Food safety

Equipment knowledge

Communication skills

Cross-functional coordination

Problem diagnosis with data

Job description

CookUnity is seeking a hands-on Chef Operations Supervisor to support licensed culinary stores, coordinating daily kitchen operations with the General Manager and licensed operations teams. You’ll identify risks, coach leaders, and drive corrective actions to sustain improvements and independent execution.

Assigned stores are the primary focus, with potential involvement in strategic chef launches and team development when capacity allows.