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Culinary Support Specialist

Independence Village – StoryPoint – Leisure Living

Travel will be within our senior living communities in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, & Iowa

Position Summary:

The Culinary Support Specialist is responsible to provide direct support, direction, and oversight of the Culinary Department at communities, with vacancies, to sustain continuity of culinary standards until a replacement can be identified. This position will also provide new employee training, perform audits and complete special assignments. The Culinary Specialist will travel daily to assigned communities and be on call 24/7.

Required Experience for Culinary Support Specialist:

• Must have minimum of three years of management experience and three years of Sous Chef experience
• Must have demonstrable knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office in a Windows environment, with a capacity to master company specific software
• Experience with Yardi, Teams, Smartsheet, and OneDrive is preferred

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as the community leader during a vacancy
  • Run day to day operation of the culinary department; to include cooking, serving meals, monitor safety/sanitation practices, order supplies and labor scheduling
  • Keep accurate records for all culinary department specific items
  • Oversee and monitor culinary staff to ensure quality standards are maintained
  • Use declining budget to keep community on track and within budget
  • Provide 24/7 on call support for any emergencies within the community
• Provide hands-on training for all new leaders.
• Coordinate and communicate with home office team to ensure smooth transition of outgoing and incoming community culinary team members
• Promote a positive work environment and encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication with members of the team
• Conduct audits to ensure community is up to company standards
• Support leaders with ongoing training.
• Perform any other duties as requested within the scope of responsibility and requirements of the job
• Travel to assigned community daily (which may include overnight stays to include weekends)

Skills for Success:

• Deep Devotion: Demonstrated ability to develop caring relationships with direct reports.
• Strives for Excellence: Ability to teach, coach and mentor, optimizing the team towards a goal or vision.
• High Integrity and High Trust: Consistently delivers on commitments; maintains confidences and is humble.
• Motivates Others: Creates an environment where employees can be their Best Version.
• Decisive: Makes decision based on analysis, wisdom, experience, and good judgement.; uses curiosity and logic to solve difficult problems effectively.
• Collaborator: Easily gains trust and support of peers; seen as a team player

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

General Working Conditions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee without restriction to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. OSHA Occupational Hazard present. For physical demands of position including vision, hearing, repetitive motion and environment, see following description.

This position entails standing for long periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The work environment requires appropriate interaction with others. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Regular overnight travel to different locations is required, occasionally for 3 or more days of the week.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

We have comprehensive benefit packages that include health, dental, vision, 401(k), income protection, and extraordinary work-life benefits.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

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