Commissary Manager

Job Title: Culinary Manager

Reports To: Culinary Director

Location: LIC, NY & Bronx, NY

About Kommissary:
Kommissary is a social enterprise on a mission to spread joy through food. We deliver high volumes of diverse, high-quality meals to New Yorkers. As a proud minority-owned business, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion and foster a collaborative workplace.

Role Overview:
The Culinary Manager oversees Kommissary’s kitchen operations, ensuring high-quality, scalable food production. This role focuses on team leadership, recipe standardization, and operational efficiency while maintaining budgetary goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage daily kitchen operations, including scheduling and supervising kitchen staff.
• Develop and standardize recipes to maintain consistent quality across production.
• Monitor inventory levels and collaborate with procurement to manage supplies.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and sanitation standards.
• Train and mentor kitchen staff to enhance skills and productivity.
• Support additional projects and perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Culinary degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 years of experience in kitchen management.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Fluency in English is required; bilingual in Spanish is a plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary: $81,000–$94,500 per year.
• Health insurance, PTO, and professional development opportunities.
• A mission-driven, inclusive workplace with growth opportunities.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may need to stand and walk for extended or continuous periods of time. They must be able to ascend and descend staircases, ladders, and/or step stools and may be required to travel outside between buildings in varying outdoor weather conditions. The employee may also be regularly required to remain in a stationary position (sit or stand) for 85% of the time; regularly operate office machinery. The employee must be able to travel up to 50% of the time. Travel may vary in frequency and duration. The employee must demonstrate the ability to exert up to 50 pounds occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds frequently, and/or up to 50 pounds of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects.

Other Duties:

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Kommissary does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Kommissary is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact us at HR@kommissary.com.

Apply Today:
Be part of a mission-driven team creating meals that make a difference in New Yorkers’ lives!