Kitchen Supervisor
Summary
Hands-on kitchen leadership role overseeing daily operations, SOP/GMP and food safety compliance, live service, and incident documentation.
Highlights
- Benefits
- Weekly pay, healthcare, daily lunch, growth
- Experience
- Supervising teams in kitchens
- Language
- Bilingual English/Spanish
- Department
- Kitchen Operations
- Type
- Full-Time
Job description
The Role
The Kitchen Operations Supervisor is a hands-on leader responsible for executing daily kitchen operations with consistency, safety, and accountability. This role ensures strict adherence to SOPs, GMPs, and food safety standards while supporting Culinary Operations Leads and chef teams during live service.
You will maintain active floor presence, enforce operational standards, escalate risks, and ensure smooth shift execution across production zones. Success in this role is measured by operational consistency, compliance, workflow integrity, and team performance.
You Are
- A strong floor leader who thrives in fast-paced kitchen environments
- Detail-oriented and uncompromising when it comes to SOP and food safety compliance
- Calm under pressure and confident making real-time decisions
- Comfortable escalating risks and holding teams accountable
- Highly organized and proactive with follow-through
- A clear communicator who ensures alignment across shifts and leadership
Must Have
- Experience supervising teams in high-volume food production or commercial kitchens
- Strong knowledge of GMPs, SOP enforcement, and food safety compliance
- Ability to monitor live operations and intervene when standards are not met
- Experience documenting incidents, violations, and corrective actions
- Comfort working cross-functionally with Food Safety, Sanitation, and Operations teams
- Ability to manage multiple priorities during live service
Nice to Have
- Experience auditing recipes or production execution
- Familiarity with live production software or digital tracking tools
- Experience in ready-to-eat or multi-chef production environments
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Benefits
- Weekly pay
- Healthcare coverage through Cigna
- Daily lunch provided
- Growth and advancement opportunities
About CookUnity
CookUnity is the first Chef-Direct Subscription service—a chef-to-food lover marketplace connecting the country's most talented chefs with eaters (consumers). We’re changing meal delivery by bringing small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters across the country. Every week, a diverse collective of all-star chefs craft their signature, ready-to-eat dishes for an elevated at-home dining experience. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity has almost 1000 employees and delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.
Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.
Equal opportunity employer
CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.