Culinary Services Director

Maplewood Senior Living · United States

Job Title: Culinary Services Director Location: Plainsboro, NJ Employment Type: Full-Time Salary Range: $75,000-85,000 annually Department: Department Head Summary: This position has overall responsibility for the daily operations of the culinary services department. Performs duties in compliance with established company policies and procedures and operates in a professional manner. Ensures the residents are provided a high quality dining experience. Ensures the department follows all policies and procedures, is adequately staffed and the highest quality standards are met. May be called upon to perform other duties as required. All responsibilities will be conducted in a manner that is consistent with the Maplewood Senior Living philosophy. Essential Functions: * Is responsible for the overall financial and operational responsibility for dining room service and culinary operations

• Creates and plans weekly menus within the community
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local sanitation regulations.
• Maintains cleanliness of all work areas
• Conducts routine safety inspections of dining room, food storage areas,

• Develops and maintains quality, objective, and standards
• Meets with dining staff bi-monthly and reports minutes and action items to

• Prepares all monthly food service reports
• Maintains food and supply expenses to budget or forecast
• Places orders for food and supplies through authorized vendors
• Completes physical food inventories
• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, evaluates, and directs the operations

• Follows emergency procedures
• Understands the safety practices and procedures.

• Possess a sincere passion for working with our senior population
• Creative, energetic, enthusiastic, patient, flexible, encouraging, and

• Able to effectively manage dining room associates
• Displays patience, tact, enthusiasm and a cheerful disposition
• Promote Maplewood in a positive manner and effectively communicate the

• Manages the departmental staffing and labor costs, including overtime
• Recruits and evaluates all culinary services staff
• Assures dining associates are performing job specific responsibilities •

• Degree in Culinary Arts preferred
• 3 to 5 years previous experience in food production/management
• Must have a Serve Safe certification or become certified within 90 days of