Kitchen Production Supervisor

• My Healthy Penguin is hiring a Kitchen Production Supervisor to help lead our day-to-day kitchen
• production operations.
• This role is responsible for keeping the kitchen floor organized, productive, clean, and on standard during
• assigned shifts. The Kitchen Production Supervisor will support the Head Chef / Director of Culinary
• Operations by supervising cooks, helping execute the daily production plan, enforcing recipe and
• portioning standards, maintaining food safety procedures, and stepping into a floor leadership role when
• the Head Chef is not present.
• This is a hands-on leadership position. The right person is comfortable cooking, directing a team, holding
• standards, solving problems in real time, and keeping production moving in a fast-paced commercial
• kitchen.

Key Responsibilities

• ● Lead cooks and kitchen production staff during assigned shifts
• ● Execute the daily production plan and help keep the team on schedule
• ● Ensure recipes, portioning standards, quality standards, and plating expectations are followed
• ● Monitor food quality, consistency, and presentation throughout production
• ● Train, coach, and support new and existing kitchen employees
• ● Enforce food safety, sanitation, HACCP, PFR, and company kitchen procedures
• ● Conduct line checks, quality checks, and end-of-shift kitchen inspections
• ● Help maintain FIFO, product rotation, labeling, storage, and organization standards
• ● Support receiving, storage, and inventory organization as needed
• ● Communicate production issues, staffing concerns, shortages, equipment problems, or quality
• concerns to leadership
• ● Maintain a clean, organized, safe, and efficient work environment
• ● Participate in prep and cooking as needed to support production
• ● Step into floor leadership when the Head Chef / Director of Culinary Operations is not present

Qualifications

• ● Previous experience in a commercial kitchen, commissary kitchen, catering kitchen, meal prep
• kitchen, or high-volume food production environment
• ● Prior experience leading, training, or supervising kitchen staff preferred
• ● Strong understanding of food safety, sanitation, labeling, storage, and production standards
• ● Ability to follow and enforce recipes, portioning standards, and written procedures
• ● Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• ● Ability to stay calm, organized, and productive in a fast-paced kitchen
• ● Reliable, punctual, hands-on, and comfortable holding others accountable
• ● ServSafe Food Manager certification preferred

Physical Requirements

• ● Ability to stand for extended periods of time
• ● Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds
• ● Ability to work in hot, cold, refrigerated, and fast-paced kitchen environments
• ● Ability to bend, reach, push, pull, and move throughout the kitchen as needed

Reports To

Head Chef / Director of Culinary Operations