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About the Role

Summerhill Market is seeking an experienced culinary operations professional to lead a strategic initiative focused on recipe management, production standardization, food costing, nutrition compliance, labour optimization, and operational data integrity within our Guac platform. This role requires deep experience in high-volume food production and understanding of running a busy commissary and prepared foods operation, combining culinary expertise, production knowledge, operational discipline, and project leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Review, validate, and standardize approximately 350 recipes and production items.
Ensure recipes accurately reflect production methods, yields, ingredient usage, labour requirements, and quality standards.
Document receiving, preparation, cooking, cooling, packaging, and finishing processes.
Develop and maintain standardized recipe books and production documentation.
Validate that recipes can be consistently executed in a high-volume production environment.
Evaluate production sequencing, labour allocation, and process efficiency.
Identify bottlenecks, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement.
Ensure production processes align with quality, food safety, labour, and operational objectives.
Partner with culinary and production teams to implement best practices.
Lead the migration and validation of recipe and production information from existing systems into Guac.
Ensure all recipe, costing, labour, and nutrition information is accurate and maintained.
Support implementation of production standards and reporting tools within Guac.
Maximize utilization of recipe management, nutrition, costing, labour, and production functionality.
Validate recipe costing, yields, and ingredient specifications.
Ensure nutrition information and product labels are accurate and compliant.
Support nutritional analysis and coordination with external laboratory services as required.
Develop processes that maintain data accuracy and regulatory compliance.
Assess labour standards and production requirements.
Evaluate labour utilization and productivity opportunities.
Ensure recipes and production standards reflect realistic labour requirements.
Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Develop and manage project timelines, priorities, and milestones.
Coordinate stakeholders across multiple departments.
Provide regular updates and recommendations to leadership.
Drive accountability and ensure project objectives are achieved.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in culinary operations, commissary production, food manufacturing, or high-volume prepared foods environments.
Experience as a Chef, Sous Chef, Production Chef, Culinary Operations Manager, or similar leadership role.
Strong understanding of large-batch food production and manufacturing principles.
Proven experience developing, executing, and standardizing recipes in a commercial production environment.
Strong understanding of food costing, labour planning, yields, and inventory management.
Experience managing projects or operational improvement initiatives.
Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Experience with recipe management or food production software platforms.
Knowledge of nutrition analysis and food labeling regulations.
Food safety program experience.
Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, or Operational Excellence experience.
Experience within prepared foods, commissary, grocery retail, or specialty food manufacturing environments.
Deep understanding of kitchen workflow and production sequencing.
Deep understanding of high-volume batch production.
Deep understanding of food quality and consistency standards.
Deep understanding of food safety and regulatory compliance.
Deep understanding of labour planning and workforce utilization.
Deep understanding of yield management and waste reduction.
Deep understanding of production efficiency and scalability.
Deep understanding of recipe development and standardization.
Deep understanding of costing and margin management.
Highly detail-oriented and questions processes, recipes, labour assumptions, yields, and costing data.
Comfortable rolling up sleeves, spending time on the production floor, working alongside culinary teams, and translating operational realities into sustainable systems and processes.

Skills

Culinary expertise
Production knowledge
Operational discipline
Project leadership
Recipe management
Production standardization
Food costing
Nutrition compliance
Labour optimization
Operational data integrity
Guac platform
High-volume food production
Commissary operations
Prepared foods operation
Food safety
Lean Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement
Operational Excellence
Analytical skills
Organizational skills
Communication skills

Location

Summerhill Market Commissary

Work Type

Full-Time
12-Month Contract

Experience Level

10+ years of experience
Leadership role

About the Company

This role represents a unique opportunity to shape the future of Summerhill Market's culinary operations by building the foundation for accurate, scalable, and efficient production systems that support our commitment to quality, innovation, and operational excellence.