Cook/Dining Supervisor
On-siteCheektowaga, New York, United States
Job Summary
Prepare appealing, nutritious meals using established recipes, rotating menus, and resident-specific dietary requirements while assisting the Director of Dining Services in overseeing daily kitchen operations. Provide direction and support to dietary team members throughout the shift, coordinating food preparation and service to ensure accurate, high-quality delivery. Reinforce food-safety, infection-control, and workplace-safety procedures while monitoring kitchen organization, portioning, and cleanliness. Respond to changing operational needs and maintain focus during busy meal periods. This blended role allows you to grow as a leader without stepping away from hands-on culinary work at Elderwood at Cheektowaga, where meals provide comfort and connection for residents.
Required Qualifications
- Culinary experience
- Leadership skills
- Dependable
- Experienced
- Ready to take on greater responsibility
- Actively involved in the kitchen
- Experience coordinating the team
- Experience maintaining an organized kitchen
- Knowledge of food-safety and sanitation practices
- Knowledge of established recipes
- Knowledge of procedures
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements
- Ability to prepare appealing, nourishing meals
- Ability to work from established recipes
- Ability to work from rotating menus
- Ability to work from production schedules
- Ability to meet resident-specific dietary requirements
- Ability to provide direction and support to dietary team members
- Ability to coordinate meal preparation
- Ability to coordinate meal service
- Ability to ensure timely delivery
- Ability to monitor food quality
- Ability to monitor portioning
- Ability to monitor presentation
- Ability to monitor sanitation
- Ability to monitor cleanliness
- Ability to monitor overall kitchen organization
- Knowledge of food-safety procedures
- Knowledge of infection-control procedures
- Knowledge of workplace-safety procedures
- Knowledge of regulatory standards
- Ability to respond to changing operational needs
- Ability to keep the team focused during busy meal periods
- Reliability
- Professionalism
- Teamwork
- Attention to detail
- Pride in the resident dining experience
- Experience working in skilled nursing
- Experience with every-other-weekend rotation
- Ability to work two to three days each week as a Dining Services Supervisor
- Ability to work remaining scheduled days as a Cook
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