Campus Dining Hall Operations Manager

2 days 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

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