Kitchen Supervisor

The Kitchen Supervisor assists in the oversight of daily kitchen operations within the skilled nursing facility, ensuring the safe, timely, and efficient preparation and delivery of meals that comply with resident nutritional needs, physician-prescribed diets, and regulatory standards. This position provides direct supervision of kitchen staff, maintains compliance with food safety and sanitation requirements, and supports high-quality, resident-centered dining services in alignment with federal, state, and local regulations.

Join us with an attractive benefits offering:

• Competitive pay
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K with matching funds
• Life Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Reimbursement

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervises Dietary employees. 
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizational policies and applicable laws.  
• Supervise daily kitchen operations, including food preparation, cooking, portioning, and meal service  
• Ensure meals are prepared and served according to menus, therapeutic diet orders, standardized recipes, and portion control guidelines.  
• Coordinate meal service schedules to support resident care routines and facility operations.  
• Monitor food quality, presentation, temperature, and timeliness of service.  
• Monitor and maintains all logs in the kitchen to include but not limited to food temperatures, dish machine temperatures, sanitizing, sanitation buckets, food usage, maintaining MSDS sheets, use-by dating of food items, refrigerator and freezer temperatures etc.  
• Coordinate meal service schedules to support resident care routines and facility operations.  
• Organizes food preparation and services to ensure food is served within scheduled timeframes.  
• Orders food economically and efficiently from approved sources considered satisfactory by federal, state and local authorities.  
• Conducts regular meal observations.  
• Monitor food preparation, quality, presentation, temperature, and timeliness of service.  
• Provides food alternatives of similar nutritional value.  
• Maintains sufficient inventory of food and supplies. Establishes effective systems to track inventory and secure storage areas.  
• Ensures food is received, stored, prepared, held, and served under sanitary conditions to prevent the transmission of food borne illness.  
• Supervise, schedule, and assign duties to kitchen staff, including cooks and dietary aides.  
• Schedule routine deep cleaning of the kitchen and kitchen equipment.  
• Supervises trash and waste disposal in compliance with state and federal requirements.  
• Inspects for signs of rodent or pests and reports findings to the supervisor.  
• Monitor kitchen equipment for safe and proper operation; reporting maintenance or repair needs to supervisor promptly.  
• Monitor staff performance and adherence to facility policies and procedures.  
• Assist with onboarding and orientation of new dietary employees.  
• Ensure compliance with CMS regulations, state health department requirements, and local food safety standards.  
• Ensure proper food handling, storage, labeling, and temperature monitoring  
• Ensure compliance with infection prevention practices, including hand hygiene, and personal protective equipment use.  
• Interviews residents, family members, legal representatives and significant others to o