Kitchen Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | Full-Time | $60,000–$65,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications

Reports to: General Manager

JYNX Recruiting is seeking an experienced, hands-on Kitchen Manager to lead a growing high-volume culinary production team for an established, award-winning full-service catering company serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

This is a true management position, not simply a cooking role. The right candidate can prepare excellent food while planning ahead, directing employees, managing costs, and ensuring every order is ready on time.

• Lead, coach, schedule, and hold kitchen employees accountable for quality, productivity, and deadlines.
• Plan and coordinate daily and upcoming production for multiple catering events and orders.
• Cook alongside the team when needed, including sauces, specialty dishes, and technically demanding items.
• Ensure consistent recipes, portions, flavor, presentation, and food safety standards.
• Manage purchasing, receiving, inventory, storage, labeling, and FIFO rotation.
• Monitor food waste, yields, food costs, and kitchen labor efficiency.
• Maintain organized walk-ins, freezers, dry storage, and clean, inspection-ready work areas.
• Communicate proactively with the General Manager and collaborate across departments.
• Identify problems early, improve workflows, and keep production on schedule.
• Provide initial production oversight for a growing grab-and-go operation.
• Work off-site catered events as part of the role; the off-site schedule is seasonal and varies week to week.
• Minimum 3 years of direct kitchen management experience, including staff supervision, production planning, inventory management, and accountability for kitchen performance.
• Experience in high-volume catering, banquet operations, commissary kitchens, or large-scale food production.
• Strong professional cooking skills plus proven leadership, organization, and problem-solving ability.
• Experience managing purchasing, food costs, labor, and multiple production deadlines.
• Knowledge of commercial kitchen sanitation and food safety; flexibility for evenings or weekends as needed.

Preferred: 5+ years of management experience; bilingual English/Spanish; experience serving 100–500+ guests; ServSafe Manager certification; formal culinary training.

Culinary experience alone does not meet the management requirement. Applicants must have directly led kitchen employees and managed production operations.

$60,000–$65,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications. Opportunity for professional growth as the company expands.

Off-site events carry a pay differential on outside catering events attended, in addition to the annual salary.

Bonus potential.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

This position is advertised by JYNX Recruiting, a private personnel service.