JOB SUMMARY
Position: Food Services Manager
Company: Optima Living
Job Location: British Columbia
Job type: Full- time
Job Location: British Columbia
Job type: Full- time
WORK PERFORMED
- Plan and prepare quality, homes-style meal plans
- Cook quality, home-style meals while considering dietary restrictions
- Ensure the environment is safe and sanitary for staff and residents; makes efforts to reduce safety hazards, accidents, and injuries where possible
- Interact with residents to resolve inquiries in a friendly, service-oriented manner
- Demonstrate complete understanding of current menu
- Lead the attraction and hiring of new team members as needed, including interviews
- Provides coaching and mentoring
- Conducts performance evaluations
- Promotes team building and engagement
- Prepares a schedule
- Order and receive food services items
- Maintains provincial compliance standards to ensure successful inspections
- Store food in designated areas following all food safety and sanitation procedures
- Ensure proper food handling, presentation, portion control and maintenance of appropriate serving temperatures
- Maintain sanitation of equipment, supplies and utensils. Clean workstation thoroughly prior to leaving area. Keep display equipment clean and free of debris during meal service to comply with all sanitation and safety requirements
- Monitor inventory and deliveries of product and supplies
- Other duties as assigned to support operational requirement
- Minimum of one (2) year experience with restaurant or home-cooking
- Leadership experience in food services is required
- Strong background in commercial cooking such as restaurants or hotel
- Experience in food services in a residential care setting is an asset
- Advanced food services management certificate an asset
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with peers, residents, visitors, and operational partners
- Superior organizational skills with the ability to handle fast paced environment
- Comprehensive food services knowledge, including focus on quality, production, sanitation, and presentation
- Superior oral and written communication skills, fluently in English
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and problem solve
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time
