Job description

About Us:

Every day, thousands of people in the Bay Area are battling serious, life-threatening illnesses. And every day, Project Open Hand is there for them – providing healthy, nourishing meals with love. Accessing healthy food is critical for people who are too sick or frail to shop and cook for themselves. We also provide hot, nutritious meals for seniors to help them tackle the health challenges of old age.

Good nutrition enables our clients to better manage the symptoms of disease, mitigate the side effects of treatment, and can speed recovery. Our registered dietitian supports and counsels our clients to help them feel better by eating right. 

Position Summary:

The Project Open Hand SLP Production Manager is an essential leadership position in our bustling kitchen. In order to continue our seven-day-a-week production of nutritious meals with love we rely on our SLP Production Manager to effectively lead and supervise their direct reports and ensure that production demands are met.

The SLP Production Manager will work side by side with their kitchen management counterparts to continue to strengthen and improve our outstanding team and programs.

This position is ideal for an ambitious, professional chef/manager looking to lead a team of dedicated and conscientious cooks in a warm and fulfilling environment.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Three + years' experience of high volume kitchen supervision with at least 3 direct reports
• Have an understanding and be able to complete HACCP procedures
• Must be able to speak, read and write in English to facilitate communications in the kitchen
• Must be flexible to work early mornings, weekends or holidays to meet demands

Desired:

• Bilingual Spanish/English
• HACCP certification

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of SLP staff management
• Ensure cleanliness and proper sanitation is being performed by all SLP staff
• Review SLP production sheets and prep lists to make sure all items are cooked and packaged properly and ready for distribution
• Responsible for ordering all produce, dry goods, side products and supplies for the department
• Ensures all SLP products meet POH quality and quantity specifications
• Part of kitchen and agency management with all responsibilities that entails
• Other duties as assigned

Job Competencies / Success Factors:

• Team player: Demonstrates cooperative spirit, respects professional boundaries and is successful at sharing responsibilities with others
• Self-Led: Knows and completes responsibilities in assigned timelines, asks for clarifications when needed
• Sensitive to the circumstances and needs of the critically ill and seniors, as well as people with mental health and substance abuseissues
• Customer oriented: Works well with all customers (internal staff and external contacts), promotes a positive image of the agency and works diligently to resolve customer issues
• Poised: able to maintain a calm, positive and constructive attitude during interactions with diverse populations, sometimes in challenging situations
• Leadership: Completes all assigned tasks in a timely manner and is able to identify projects or work needed for future completion. Anticipates needs before they are assigned. Recognizes themselves as a departmental or function representative
• Employee Management:  Delegates well, defines and enforces responsibilities and motivates employees to progress and succeed
• Ethical: Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality
• Decisive: Thoughtful when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions when necessary
• Knowledgeable: Understands facets of job, keeps job knowledge current
• Well Organized: Information organized and accessible, maintains efficient work space, manages time well
• Strong Communicator: excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Tech. Savvy: Skilled with computers, proficient with function appropriate technology, learns quickly, uses technology to enhance job performance with the interest and ability to learn new technology
• Agile: Able to move effectively between big-picture thinking and hands-on logistics
• Takes Initiative: Takes action, seeks new opportunities, strives to see projects to completion
• Problem solver: Strong analytical skills and able to creatively address and solve problems
• Motivated: Looks for opportunities to increase knowledge, works to increase responsibility, strives to achieve personal goals

Physical Demand and Work Environment: 

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions 

Physical demands:

• While performing duties of job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand for long periods of time and move; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
• Employee will must bend, stoop and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted on a regular basis.
• Employee will be asked to move fully loaded carts from floor to floor for storage on a regular basis.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus 

Work Environment: 

• The noise level in the work environment will consistently vary from moderate to loud.
• The work environment will be ever changing with volunteers and staff members all sharing limited space and working together in the Kitchen.
• The work environment will consistently have wet floors, temperature extremes, moving objects and loud noises

Compensation

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Application instructions

Deadline

October 31, 2013