Chef Production Manager - Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association

Aramark

Memphis, TN

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Assembly Line, Assisted Living, Budget Management, Catering Services, Community Programs, Cook Dishes, Cost Control, Culinary Operations, Diabetes, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), FIFO, Federal Laws and Regulations, Food Delivery, Food Production, Food Safety, Hazard Analysis, Health Department, Hospital, Industrial Cleaning, Inventory Management, Leadership, Logistics, Maintain Compliance, Menu Development, Menu Management, Military, Mining Laws/Regulations, Nursing, Nutrition, Operational Support, Operations, Production Management, Production Volume, Project Estimates, Purchasing/Procurement, Regulations, Sanitation, Schedule Development, ServSafe Certification, State Laws and Regulations, Team Lead/Manager, Time Management, Truck Driver, Twitter, Volunteer Management
LOCATION
Memphis, TN
POSTED
2 days ago

Job Description

Are you someone who takes pride in making a meaningful difference in the lives of others? Join a team where your passion can shine through in work that truly matters.

At Aramark SeniorLIFE+, we serve thousands of seniors living in assisted living, independent living, skilled nursing, and memory care communities. Everything we do helps make each day special for the residents we serve. From providing delicious dining experiences to keeping spaces clean, safe, and welcoming, we create moments that bring joy, promote wellness, and support vibrant, fulfilling lives. With seniors at the heart of what we do, we are dedicated to nurturing lives and creating meaningful connections. Bring your purpose and passion to Aramark SeniorLIFE+ and be part of a team that makes every moment count.

The Chef Manager oversees all daily culinary operations for a high-volume, institutional kitchen producing 1,500 scratch and blast-chilled meals daily. This role balances massive-scale food production with strict nutritional guidelines and sanitation standards. The Chef is responsible for maintaining inventory, controlling food costs, ensuring strict temperature compliance, and supervising a team of kitchen staff and volunteers to feed homebound seniors and community programs.

Job Responsibilities

High-Volume Food Production & Menu Planning

  • High volume meal production - institution cooking: Direct the daily preparation, cooking, and assembly of 1,500 hot, chilled, or frozen meals using industrial equipment (e.g., tilt skillets, steam kettles, rack ovens).
  • Recipe Scaling: Masterfully scale recipes to handle massive quantities, calculating, prepping and scaling daily recipes.
  • Menu Development: Plan rotating menus tailored to senior nutrition that remain appealing when packaged, transported, and reheated.
  • Special Diets: Ensure modifications are precisely executed for medical dietary needs (e.g., low-sodium, diabetic-friendly, renal, pureed, and mechanical soft).

Food Safety & Blast-Chilling Compliance

  • Regulatory Standards: Maintain 100% compliance with local health department, state, and federal eldercare nutrition regulations.
  • Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP): Implement and monitor strict HACCP protocols, focusing heavily on rapid cooling, blast-chilling, and safe holding zones.
  • Temperature Tracking: Ensure meticulous logging of food temperatures from receiving through final delivery vehicle loading.
  • Sanitation Management: Direct the continuous deep-cleaning of industrial food processing lines, sealing machinery, and walk-in complexes.

Inventory, Logistics & Assembly Line Management

  • Procurement: Order bulk ingredients weekly, managing massive inventory turnover while minimizing waste and staying within budget.
  • Assembly Line Logistics: Oversee the high-speed tray-line packaging or automated sealing systems used to portion 1,500 individual meals accurately.
  • First-In, First-Out (FIFO): Enforce strict FIFO rotation across extensive walk-in coolers, freezers, and dry storage facilities.

Leadership & Volunteer Coordination

  • Shift Management: Supervise, schedule, and train a professional kitchen crew across staggered prep and production shifts.
  • Volunteer Deployment: Organize and motivate rotating teams of community volunteers assigned to high-speed meal packaging and labeling lines.
  • Dispatch Collaboration: Coordinate directly with logistics and fleet drivers to ensure all 1,500 meals are temperature-secured, sorted by route, and dispatched exactly on time.

Qualifications

  • Experience: Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience specifically running a high-volume production kitchen (e.g., catering, hospital, correctional facility, school district, or military base) producing over 1,000 meals per shift.
  • Shift is 3am-12pm
  • Certification: Active ServSafe Manager Certification required upon hire.
  • Experience: Must be proficient in running a full scope HACCP program
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency operating large-scale industrial culinary machinery (combi-ovens, industrial sealers, commercial mixers).

Education

About Aramark

Aramark SeniorLIFE+ is dedicated to creating meaningful daily experiences for seniors through exceptional dining, hospitality, and care. We partner with senior living communities nationwide to deliver warm, reliable service that supports dignity, comfort, and independence, empowering our residents to live their best lives.

When you join SeniorLIFE+, you become part of a mission‑driven team that makes a real impact every day. Whether preparing meals, supporting operations, or engaging with residents, your work helps those in our communities feel valued, supported, and, most importantly, at home.

If you're inspired by purpose and passionate about serving others, Aramark SeniorLIFE+ offers a place to grow, connect, and make a difference.

Our Mission

Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.

At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

About Aramark

The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what youre pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

About the Company

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Aramark

We focus on enriching and nourishing the lives of millions all over the world, providing a wide range of services—food, facilities and uniforms—to a diverse group of clients in 19 countries. We serve world champion sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, state-of-the-art healthcare providers and the world’s leading educational institutions. And every day, we dream of ways to do it better through our commitment to innovation and our passion for excellent customer service.

Innovation inspired by you
The better we know the people we serve, the greater the experiences we can develop. Whether it’s food service, facilities or uniforms, our proprietary programs allow us to understand the wants and needs of our audiences.

Armed with that knowledge, our Service Stars spring into action, combining insights and ingenuity to deliver moments that make a difference. These innovations could be game-changing campus transformations. Or a simpler, quicker way for you to access condiments at the ballpark. In any case, our innovations help create experiences that make an impact.

Beyond great service
Another key part of what makes us different is something we call service excellence.

To us, service excellence isn’t just about providing great customer service. It also means using time-tested practices and proven processes to get it right every day, everywhere, in everything that we do. And it's also about striking the perfect balance between doing something well over and over again and being responsive enough to the changing needs of clients and customers. It’s being open to the continuing cycle of innovation. Excellent, but never satisfied. Process-driven, but never locked in place.

We never stop thinking of new, better ways to get it right when our people impact the lives of clients and consumers every day.

Our people make all the difference—we make sure of it
Our commitment to hiring, training and rewarding the right people ensures that our employees are more than just hard workers. They’re Service Stars, and that means they can be counted on to go above and beyond, every single day.

We understand that many times our people are literally the face of your business. That’s why all 270,000 Service Stars receive continual access to professional development and proprietary skills training.

The bottom line is this: when you work with Aramark, you can be confident you’ll be collaborating with the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. That’s true whether it’s for strategic expertise, operational excellence or just serving a morning coffee. That’s our commitment as trusted partners and Service Stars. That’s the Aramark way.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Food and Beverage Production
FOUNDED
1936
WEBSITE
https://www.aramark.com/