Campus Dining Hall Operations Manager

6 months ago


Halifax, Canada Aramark Full time

The Campus Dining Hall Operations Manager is responsible for the day-to-day dining hall services, staff, and operational administration at the O’Brien dining hall at Dalhousie University. You will have a culinary background either as a Cook or Food Services Manager.

Supervising a team of 15-20 entry-level unionized staff, you will be responsible for leveraging process and procedures to maximize productivity and ensure high-quality deliverables. You will also be responsible for handling the allocation of budgets and administering adequacy of resources to support business operations to the client’s satisfaction.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead, direct and manager a team of unionized cooks, food service workers and floor supervisors
- Responsible for staffing, training, performance management and resource planning
- Responsible for inventory counts, food, equipment, and small wares orders; food & labour costs
- Scheduling labour using our Kronos labour management tool; understanding POS, cash handling
- Ensure kitchen staff adhere to Aramark’s standardized recipe database - PRIMA
- Administering Health & Safety initiatives; monitor safe food handling, temperature checks, etc.
- Lead document management activities to ensure policies and procedures comply with regulations
- Manage quality improvement initiatives to ensure compliance with regulatory and safety standards

At Aramark, developing new skills and doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers. In order to meet our commitments, job duties may change. or new ones may be assigned without formal notice.

**Qualifications**:

- A minimum of 2-3 years culinary and management experience in food services required
- Post-secondary education in hospitality, culinary, or business management is preferred
- Unionized experience and understanding the collective bargaining process is an asset
- Well-developed leadership and management skills; client focused and client facing
- Experience managing food service operations - inventory, ordering, food, labour costs
- Understanding usage reports related to inventory; cash handling, POS systems; payroll
- Good knowledge of Health & Safety; advanced food training is an asset
- Strong acumen for operational budgets, working with allocations, controlling costs and variances
- Understanding dietary restrictions and provisions such as vegan, halal, allergies, intolerance, etc.
- Ensure staff adheres to standardized recipe data base and all other Aramark policies and procedures
- Must be flexible to work some evenings and weekends to meet with operational requirements

**Education**:
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At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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