Supervisor- Ku Catering

Job Details
Job Location
Lawrence, KS
Salary Range
$18.37 - $22.50 Hourly
Description
ABOUT THIS JOB: From tailgates to banquets, the Catering Team assists with a variety of events across campus, serving high quality food and drinks with tremendous skill and customer service. Experience the thrill of a fast-paced environment and an array of unique events by joining KU Catering, where our mission is to make every guest happy through chef-crafted food and excellent customer service, with an environmental consciousness. Discover why our employees love coming to work every day in this fun, fast-paced environment. As a member of KU Dining, you will enjoy competitive pay and benefits, with plenty of room to grow professionally. Become a proud Jayhawk, and you will get to enjoy serving the KU community in a meaningful way.
AWESOME BENEFITS:

• Paid sick, vacation, and holidays
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Retirement plan with 7.5% employer match
• Two month paid parental leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounts

Read the full job description below:
JOB SUMMARY:
Join the award-winning KU Dining team for an excellent work environment and fantastic benefits. As a supervisor, you will prepare complex menu items using recipes according to serving line demand. Our supervisors assist in training cooks, cook's helpers, and part-time team members. You will maintain departmental cash handling policies in operation of facilities.
SUPERVISION GIVEN & RECEIVED: Receives direct supervision from Assistant Director - Catering. Supervises Full-Time and Part Time employees.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Food preparation - Meet guidelines for overproduction/waste, record production usage, provide recipe feedback to senior supervisory and management staff. Perform and coordinate the timing of overall production and completion of menu items to ensure timeliness meeting acceptable, correct quality standards.
2. Quality indicators - Check quality indicators for food items taking corrective action as needed. Indicators include cleanliness, appearance, flavor, texture, and food temperatures. Inform your supervisory staff when questions/problems arise.
3. Dependability - Open, close, and secure dining center. Assist in running unit operations and responding to dining staff questions. Make on-site decisions and necessary adjustments in production and scheduling, ensuring coverage is proper.
4. Quantity - Maintains quality, quantity, and safety control standards. Performs daily working supervisory and cooking duties in cold and hot foods production areas to ensure operation needs are meet.
5. Communication - We trust you to positively interact with customers and coworkers, following up on concerns. Supervise receiving, inventory taking, scheduling, hiring, disciplinary procedures, production, and quality of dining operation.
6. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned. In this role you will directly supervise full and part-time employees.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES, & SKILLS:

1. Required knowledge, abilities, and skills
2. Ability to use and teach proper equipment operation in a state-of-the-art kitchen.
3. Knowledge of modern health, sanitary and safety standards and practices applied to food service.
4. Ability to follow recipes and product cooking instructions.
5. Ability to maintain quantity, quality, and inventory controls.
6. Ability to perform above average physical requirements of food service work to include stooping, bending, extensive walking, standing for long periods and lifting 50 pounds.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

1. High School graduation or GED equivalent
2. Demonstrated effective understanding of food preparation and food service operations.
3. Able to demonstrate common culinary skills and understanding of culinary concepts.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Minimum two years of volume food service production experience with some supervising responsibilities
2. ServSafe certified

Please submit a resume and cover letter with application.
This position is eligible for an employee referral bonus.
Full-time employment with the Union Corporation is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check prior to being able to begin work. This position is eligible for an employee referral bonus.
The University of Kansas Memorial Unions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, and genetic information in the corporation's programs and activities. Retaliation is also prohibited by corporation policy.