
Culinary Production Manager
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Job overview
The Culinary Production Manager assists with managing food production across cooking, patient trayline, catering, and affiliate operations. The role includes training employees, maintaining food temperature records, supporting safety and regulatory standards, and checking that cleaning is completed. The manager also prepares food for patients, personnel, and visitors and helps foster employee engagement.
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Full job description
Job Summary: Assist in managing, planning, directing, and supervise employees involved in all areas of food production work involving cooks, patient trayline, catering, and the affiliates, and completing various cleaning and other related assignments. To train and instruct employees as needed. To maintain required temperature records of food for both on & off site food production. To improve or maintain safety scores health department, steritech, and internal quantros reports. To assist in checking all employees out before they go home from their shift to verify cleaning was accomplished on their stations and equipment. To perform a variety of routine specified duties in a safe and organized manner including but not limited to: preparing food using proper techniques, methods, and following recipes for hospital patients, personnel and visitors. Completing daily regulatory rounding's with solutions and actions taken for each item not complete. To help build and foster employee engagement with all Team members.
Qualifications: Associate Degree with 5 years experience or high school diploma with at least 7 years experience to include managing people, food production and as a cook outside the home in an established business. Culinary experience in food service. Proficient in Culinary skills with special preparation of food. Working knowledge of therapeutic diets and use of standardized recipes. Ability to deal tactfully with Food Service employees. Ability to manage and motivate employees. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to Supervisor, peers and subordinates.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 2,927 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$75–90K/yr89 salary ranges
- US median$17–19/hr1,290 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 93 open Food Service jobs in North Carolina and 2,927 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 409 postings).
- Education
- 14 of the 2,927 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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