Food Service Manager

Job Description

General Function:

The Food Service Manager is responsible for planning and executing excellent back-of-house experiences for all guests to Camp Gray. Works closely with other full-time staff to host groups and prepare spaces and meals. This position is the backbone of all experiences of Camp Gray's mission: To Know Christ and Make Him Known.

Principal Activities:

-Work collaboratively with other staff members to ensure an excellent experience for all guests.
-Establish and interpret policies and procedures for food service and kitchen use.
-Work within a budget to provide balanced, nutritious, enjoyable, and adequately-sized meals to summer camp and school-year programs.
-Clean and maintain all food-service areas, including kitchen, dining hall, storage, and kitchen recycling.
-Supervise, train, nurture, and appraise summer kitchen staff members
-Assure that applicable health and safety codes are communicated to staff and maintain compliance.
-Willingness to take on long days in the summer to assist in facilitation of summer camp programming.
-Willingness to work weekends and odd hours during school-year programming.

Essential Functions:

-Living an active life of faith and virtue
-Ability to communicate with and collaborate with staff peers and campers in providing program leadership and instruction
-Ability to understand and communicate mission to Know Christ and -Make Him Known
-Ability to understand and implement health and food-safety regulations and procedures
-Ability to communicate procedures and regulations to staff and campers
-Ability, both visual and auditory, to identify safety hazards and monitor camper and staff behavior
-Physical strength to lift food, supplies, and dishes (up to 40 pounds)
-Physical mobility and endurance to perform tasks while standing/walking for long periods of time (60 minutes or more)
-Ability to safely and properly use kitchen equipment

About the Employer

Camp Gray's mission is to know Christ and make Him known. We do this through joyful, faithful summer camp programming in the summer and facilitated retreats during the school year for Church and Catholic school groups. Camp Gray has been in operation since 1953 and is an apostolate of the Diocese of Madison.