Culinary Services Director

Job Title:
Culinary Services Director
Location:
Southport
Employment Type:
Full-Time
Salary Range:
Competitive
Department:
Dining Services

About Us: Maplewood Senior Living, is a leading operator of premier senior living communities across 5 states and Washington, D.C., featuring two distinguished brands:
Maplewood and Inspīr. Known nationally for innovation in the senior living space, Maplewood is a growing company dedicated to excellence in care, offering personalized and thoughtful services in independent living, assisted living and memory care.

Our success is built on a foundation of personalized, compassionate care and communities designed to enrich the quality of life for our residents. We foster a dynamic and supportive work environment that empowers our teams to excel, inspire, and make a meaningful impact every day. If you are a passionate about driving growth and innovation in senior living, Maplewood offers the opportunity to be part of a forward‑thinking organization that values your expertise.

Join us and help shape the future of senior living!

Summary: This position has overall responsibility for the daily operations of the culinary services department. Performs duties in compliance with established company policies and procedures and operates in a professional manner. Ensures the residents are provided a high quality dining experience. Ensures the department follows all policies and procedures, is adequately staffed and the highest quality standards are met. May be called upon to perform other duties as required.

All responsibilities will be conducted in a manner that is consistent with the Maplewood Senior Living philosophy.

• Is responsible for the overall financial and operational responsibility for dining room service and culinary operations
• Creates and plans weekly menus within the community
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local sanitation regulations.
• Maintains cleanliness of all work areas
• Conducts routine safety inspections of dining room, food storage areas, chemical storage areas, and food receiving area. Communicates “action items” to Environmental Services Director and Executive Director
• Demonstrates attention to detail with regard to food quality, presentation, and dining room environmental standards.
• Develops and maintains quality, objective, and standards
• Meets with dining staff bi‑monthly and reports minutes and action items to the Executive Director
• Develops and maintains a good working relationship with administration and inter‑department personnel, as well as other communities to assure that the services offered can be properly maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Prepares all monthly food service reports
• Maintains food and supply expenses to budget or forecast
• Places orders for food and supplies through authorized vendors
• Completes physical food inventories
• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, evaluates, and directs the operations in food and beverage services
• Makes written and oral reports/recommendations to the Executive Director concerning the operations of the food service departments in the communities.
• Maintains daily log of freezer, refrigeration, hot and cold food holding temperatures
• Assures that the communities maintain a clean and safe manner assuring that food service safety and sanitation are maintained to perform services
• Supports the community and regional cluster sales efforts with marketing events, programs, etc. Provides support during sales/site visits
• Required to work weekends and holidays as assigned
• May be required to work on shifts other than the one for which hired
• May be required to work extended hours up to 16 hours per day
• Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate

• Manages the departmental staffing and labor costs, including overtime
• Recruits and evaluates all culinary services staff
• Assures dining associates are performing job specific responsibilities
  • Responsible for overseeing culinary services calendar

• Degree in Culinary Arts preferred
• 3 to 5 years previous experience in food production/management
• Must have a Serve Safe certification…