Kitchen Manager - MariMed : Job Details

Title: Kitchen Manager

Location: Hagerstown, MD

Experience level: 3+ years management experience in a kitchen

Responsibilities

• Manage the edible manufacturing and packaging staff in accomplishing set production results, establishing priorities, implementing safety & good manufacturing practices, monitoring the production progress and quality controls, resolving problems, and reports the data to company production summaries daily.
• Closely track inventory of ingredients & supplies necessary to complete all production duties throughout the manufacturing process; including but not limited to: raw and dry ingredients, cookware, gloves, PPE, METRC tags, trash bags, and other related supplies
• Completes production goals by assigning employees and providing oversight on work results and performance metrics. Furthermore, ensure staff are always busy laboring in the facility and/or working on selected production tasks as directed by the leadership team.
• Follows and manages department cleaning procedures for the edible manufacturing team, the Kitchen Manager is responsible for daily breakdown and sanitizing of production machines & filling equipment.
• Operate, Train, and Maintain proper utilization of edible manufacturing equipment including but not limited to: fire mixers, sugar pullers, depositors, roper/sizers, cookers, sifters, and wrapping equipment. Furthermore, the Kitchen Manager will maintain document-controlled training logs on equipment.
• Overseeing the quality of product within edible manufacturing processes, ensures standard operating procedures are being followed and reports discrepancies to the leadership team.
• Maintain department specific documents by revising policies and procedures within document control systems.
• Manage and facilitate testing processes and closely track inventory of lab sample batches for edible department. Furthermore, it is the Kitchen Manager's responsibility to maintain test results for products within company and state databases, overseeing stability testing of edibles, and reporting & resolving testing bottlenecks due to failures, retesting, and systematic errors.
• Upholds production results by coaching and counseling the staff. The Kitchen Manager will closely monitor and appraise all team members collectively and individually in terms of job results.
• Reports to the leadership team if potential bottlenecks in production and/or forecasting arise.
• Notifies the leadership team of additional planning needs in advance of production batches, employee vacations, illnesses, and all other areas relating to the edible manufacturing staff.
• Maintains professional and technical cannabis knowledge by attending workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Responsible for overseeing the quality of products within edible manufacturing processes, ensuring standard operating procedures are being followed and reports discrepancies to the leadership team.

Qualifications

• Previous employment in a kitchen with 3+ years people & operations management
• Valid Food Service Certificate (training provided)
• HACCP Certified to work within cGMP kitchen.
• Reliable, dependable, focused and results driven with high attention to detail
• Intermediate computer skills – Office 365; word, excel, email
• Flexibility to pivot on tasks as directed
• Ability to lift up to 70 lbs. and push/pull up to 70 lbs.
• Ability to perform the following physical tasks: sitting, standing, stooping, stretching, walking, bending, twisting, reaching, performing repetitive motions, and carrying boxes.
• Certain situations require that work is completed on weekends, after hours, and holidays.