Culinary Operations Supervisor
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Cookunity · Seattle, WAPrepare for this interview
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About the role
The Culinary 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
Requirements
- 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
- 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)
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Additional Information
About CookUnity: Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. 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 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. If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you've found the right job posting. Culinary Operations Supervisor
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