Commissary Leader
Blue Bottle Coffee
- Sacramento, CA
- $75,000-80,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Operational Excellence: Ensure precise fulfillment and timely delivery of premium quality food to all regional cafes, enhancing guest satisfaction.
- Team Leadership: Calculate labor needs and hire, schedule, train, manage, and mentor a diverse team, ensuring high performance and fostering a culture of inclusion, integrity, and engagement.
- Production Efficiency: Analyze commissary production metrics to continuously improve efficiency and quality, identify key performance indicators, and help devise a strategy towards continuous improvement.
- Quality and Safety Standards: Implement and monitor objective sensory quality control, food safety, and people safety standards across the commissary operation.
- Facility and Equipment Maintenance: Define and oversee maintenance schedules, ensuring our commissary equipment always performs well to meet our production output needs.
- Vendor Management: Maintain working relationships and critical communication with external vendors supplying the facility with culinary ingredients, food safety supplies, and maintenance services.
- Collaboration: Work closely with partnering departments to ensure continuous delivery of in-cafe culinary products, including Retail Operations, Procurement, and Logistics.
- Product Innovation: Collaborate closely with the product development team and Culinary Production Manager to innovate and enhance product offerings, ensuring alignment with seasonal trends and evolving company initiatives.
- Strategic Thinker: Proficient in both detailed planning for specific production functions and overarching strategy for the complete commissary operation.
- Experienced Operator: A proven track record of building efficient regional culinary operations.
- Innovative Leader: Continually seeks improvement and efficiency, leveraging data and metrics for decision-making.
- Inspiring Mentor: An exemplary leader and coach who motivates and brings out the best in the team.
- Practical Visionary: View constraints as opportunities to creatively problem solve using a practical approach.
- Agile and Adaptable: Thrives in dynamic environments and evolving conditions, with a flexible and thoughtful approach to change.
- 3+ years of people management experience in bakery production or restaurant kitchens, ideally with commissary production experience at a scale and high volume servicing multiple service locations.
- Broad knowledge of food production equipment and processes.
- A strong dedication to fostering workplace hospitality and enthusiasm for providing feedback and working toward resolutions to cultivate high-performing teams.
- Clear, articulate, and hospitable communication skills.
- Comfort using online tools and software including Microsoft Suite and Google Suite.
- Last but not least, a deep love for great coffee, food, and exceptional customer experiences.
- This position has a salary range of $75k-80k. This salary is a good-faith estimate for this position. The final salary offer will be determined after reviewing relevant factors, which include a candidate's qualifications and experience, where appropriate.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees starting on your first day
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Discounts on any Blue Bottle food items and merchandise
- The ability to stand, walk, sit for long periods of time (at least 8 hours per day and 5 days per week)
- The use of hands to handle or feel and the ability to reach with hands and arm
- The ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch
- The ability to squat, bend, twist, and reach for items below waist level or above shoulders
- The ability to lift, push/pull, carry, and/or move up to 50 pounds
- The ability to listen and speakThe ability to climb ladders, stairs, ramps, and uneven floors and/or surfaces as needed
- The ability to have close visual acuity to perform repetitive visual checking, counting, spotting small defects, determining the accuracy of numbers and package
- The ability to smell and taste