Essential Functions:
Job Duties:
• 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, chemical storage areas, and
food receiving area. Communicates "action items" to Environmental Services Director and Executive
Director
• Demonstrates attention to detail with regard to food quality, presentation, and dining room
environmental standards.
• Develops and maintains quality, objective, and standards
• Meets with dining staff bi-monthly and reports minutes and action items to the Executive Director
• Develops and maintains a good working relationship with administration and inter-department
personnel, as well as other communities to assure that the services offered can be properly maintained
to meet the needs of the residents.
• 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 in food and beverage
services
• Makes written and oral reports/recommendations to the Executive Director concerning the operations
of the food service departments in the communities.
• Maintains daily log of freezer, refrigeration, hot and cold food holding temperatures
• Assures that the communities maintain a clean and safe manner assuring that food service safety and
sanitation are maintained to perform services
• Supports the community and regional cluster sales efforts with marketing events, programs, etc.
Provides support during sales/site visits
• Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate
Compliance & Safety
• Follows emergency procedures
• Understands the safety practices and procedures.
Communication
• Possess a sincere passion for working with our senior population
• Creative, energetic, enthusiastic, patient, flexible, encouraging, and team-oriented.
• 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 organizations values to
residents, visitors, co-workers and the community
Management Responsibilities
• Manages the departmental staffing and labor costs, including overtime
• Recruits and evaluates all culinary services staff
• Assures dining associates are performing job specific responsibilities • Responsible for overseeing
culinary services calendar
Education/Experience/Licensure/Certification
• 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 hire date
• Must have basic knowledge of food preparation procedures, proper dining room service etiquette as
well as related Health Department regulations and guidelines pertaining to food service operations
Physical Requirements
• Physically able to bend and reach.
• Physically able to push and pull and lift up to 40-50lbs at times.
• Physically able to stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to work in a hot/humid environment for extended amounts of time
• Is subject to burns from hot foods, cuts from knives, falls on slippery floors if caution is not used when
working
• Tastes and smells food to determine quality and palatability
Miscellaneous
• Required to work weekends and holidays as assigned
• May be required to work on shifts other than the one for which hired
• May be required to work extended hours up to 16 hours per day
• Subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc. including HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis B &
C viruses
• Could be subject to hostile and emotionally upset residents due to mental status
• Background, criminal and drug test required
• Could be asked to submit to random drug test during employment

Education Preferred

• Technical/other training or better
• High School or better

• Training

• Planning/Organizing
• Leadership/Management Skills
• Budgeting

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

About the Company:
Maplewood at Newtown LLC