Real Food for Real Kids, Inc,Kitchen Manager Jobs in Canada

Reports to: Senior Production Manager
Direct Reports: Fulfillment Team Lead (Packing), Lead Baker

Hours: Full-time, from 11am-7pm

Compensation:
• Competitive salary and RRSP matching
• Excellent benefits program, including: alternative and preventative
health treatments
• Inspiring work environment

Application Deadline: ongoing

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

About Real Food for Real Kids:

Real Food for Real Kids (RFRK) is Canada’s leading healthy catering
company for kids in childcare centres, elementary schools and camps –
making the Great Place to Work list of Canada’s 100 Best Workplaces
for back-to-back years, winning awards of excellence with the Green
Toronto Awards and receiving the 2014 Regional Premier’s Award for
Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. RFRK prepares and delivers nutritious
and delicious hot lunches and snacks, made fresh-from-scratch for over
15,000 kids daily throughout the GTA. We focus on wholesome nutrition
and global flavours, while using as much local and organic ingredients
as practical. RFRK’s mission is to enable and inspire a lifetime of
healthy eating, and to have a rockin’ good time while doing it!

A glimpse at the role:

As a nimble, plucky and roll-up-your-sleeves Kitchen Manager, you
bring your amazing ability to lead and develop teams as well as your
kitchen management experience to help drive results. This position is
responsible for making sure that all of the processes in our
production areas run safely and smoothly, while keeping a close eye on
food quality, and also balancing the important duties of scheduling,
productivity & yield management, effective equipment operation and
utilization, training, and continuous improvement.

Some of the things you’ll get paid to do:

Manage Afternoon Production
• Share responsibility for creating and maintaining a workplace
culture that engages and motivates RFRKers at all levels
• Develop and implement action plans to address the root causes of
failures and support continuous improvement initiatives to meet
current and future business requirements
• Manage relationships with internal/external customers, suppliers,
colleagues and support services to ensure achievement of targets

Manage Departmental Resources
• Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel for
afternoon shifts; establishing priorities; monitoring progress;
revising schedules; removing roadblocks
• Lead by example and live RFRK’s core values

Execute External Safety Regulations
• Maintain compliance with the OHSA, JHSC recommendations or MOL work
orders, RFRK’s safety policy, GMP’s and HACCP

Quality and Inventory Control
• Ensure quality objectives are met including regular adherence to
GMP’s, performance of sanitation audits, food safety checks, and
product quality checks conducted according to policies
• Ensure inventory is tracked and documented according to health and
safety regulations

The things you can’t believe you’ll be getting paid to do:
• Have a hand in reshaping the way children, families, and educators
eat and perceive food
• Help our community embrace real food and foster new healthy eating habits
• Put your professional and personality strengths to work in a growing
and dynamic company

Yes, it sounds like a lot, but anything less wouldn’t interest you!
You see the alchemy of these responsibilities, and the chance to take
a fast-growing company (on a world-changing mission) to new heights as
too good to pass up.

Required Education and Experience:
• Minimum of 2 years of direct supervisory work experience in a
restaurant kitchen or food production facility
• College diploma or University degree; or an equivalent combination
of related experience and education
• Knowledge of HACCP and Provincial Safety Regulations
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs & Drive

Skills and Personal Attributes:
• Ability to communicate effectively and across multiple departments
• Ability to lead, motivate, coach, mentor and resolve employee conflicts
• Structured and self-directed approach to project work
• Ability to consistently meet targets and deadlines
• Ability to think critically, problem-solve, and make effective decisions
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; ERP system experience an asset
• Strong command of English language (written and verbal)
• Crazy good sense of humour and your work proves it

Nice-to-haves:
• Intermediate understanding of Lean/Six Sigma manufacturing
principles and leadership applications within a production environment
• Flexibility to cover alternate shifts as needed

To apply, go to http://bit.ly/1IWl17c

Please upload your résumé and cover letter, including salary
expectations, explaining why you’d be a great fit for this role!

RFRK is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage
applications from diverse backgrounds and communities.

No phone calls, please. We’ll contact applicants that fit the bill,
and invite them in for an interview.

Thanks for your interest in Real Food for Real Kids!