On‑Site Chef Ops Supervisor: Launch & Stabilize Kitchens

FlowerHire; 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 lead launch, stabilization, and ongoing performance of licensed culinary businesses in the market. On-site role partnering with chef-operators to strengthen teams, processes, and leadership so they can execute consistently.

You will connect daily kitchen operations with General Manager, Licensed Operations, and product teams; identify risks, coach leaders, coordinate issue resolution, and ensure corrective actions deliver lasting

Qualifications

• 7+ years in high-volume culinary operations or multi-unit environments.
• Experience leading complex production in a time-sensitive environment.
• Strong knowledge of production planning, labor management, throughput, yields, food safety, equipment.
• Experience opening, stabilizing, or turning around culinary operations.
• Ability to diagnose operational problems via direct observation and performance data.
• Experience coaching chefs and kitchen leaders with clear accountability.
• Strong communication across operators, corporate functions, senior leaders, and hourly teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead onboarding, kitchen setup, training, and launch readiness for assigned licensed stores.
• Develop launch plans with GM covering staffing, recipes, ingredients, equipment, safety, and handover.
• Verify recipes and processes can be executed in production and provide feedback to Product Development.
• Recommend launch go/no-go decisions with objective criteria, and support ramp-up.
• Assess daily production readiness and monitor during peak periods.
• Coach chefs and kitchen leaders on shift planning, quality reviews, staffing, and problem-solving.
• Create improvement plans for performance gaps and escalate to GM with evidence.
• Coordinate containment and recovery when issues threaten production or safety.
• Maintain logs and drive root-cause analysis and verified resolutions.
• Monitor adherence to recipes, temperatures, yields, portions, CCPs, and brand standards.
• Collaborate with Food Safety, QA, and Product Development on technical concerns.
• Maintain operating scorecards on launch readiness and product availability.
• Track disruptions and trainer opportunities for improvement.
• Communicate risks, decisions, and due dates; improve playbooks.
• Support additional launches and team development when capacity allows.

Skills

Culinary operations leadership

Production planning

Quality systems & food safety

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Formal culinary training

Job description

CookUnity is seeking a hands-on Chef Operations Supervisor to lead launch, stabilization, and ongoing performance of licensed culinary businesses in the market. On-site role partnering with chef-operators to strengthen teams, processes, and leadership so they can execute consistently.

You will connect daily kitchen operations with General Manager, Licensed Operations, and product teams; identify risks, coach leaders, coordinate issue resolution, and ensure corrective actions deliver lasting