Food Manager

Description

Food Manager - Oregon

What it means to be part of Orange Torpedo Trips

            For almost five decades Orange Torpedo Trips has been a leader in the outdoor adventure community, guiding unique and thrilling river based vacations the world over for our family of adventurous clients. Being a part of Orange Torpedo Trips means becoming a participant in our story, which is the story of us being active players in some of the most powerful and important memories people will create in their lifetime. Through our river based adventures we provide confidence and relaxation to our travelers. We give them space to bond with their kids and opportunities to forget their everyday struggles. We are stewards of the areas we love and we show others why the places we travel are worth loving and protecting. In being a part of Orange Torpedo Trips you forever become a part of our family as we become a part of the families who travel with us.

OTT Attributes - OTT people have:

Intellectual Curiosity

• Desire to learn new skills
• Active as a student or in one’s profession
• History of taking on new challenges
• Creative problem solver
   

Desire for personal growth

• Seeks out new challenges
• Desires to have new experiences
• Participates in leadership development
• Appreciates critique as an opportunity for improvement
   

Self-awareness

• Self-confident in one’s ability to lead
• Self-confident enough to allow others to lead
• Humble enough to admit what one needs to learn
• Confident enough to accomplish something after saying they can do it
• Healthy balance of fear and confidence
   

Love for adventure

• Passion for the outdoors
• Love for rivers
• Strong desire to share wild places with our clients
• Thrive in adverse circumstances
• Have a strong sense of emotional stability as circumstances change

Oregon Food Manager - The Job

The Oregon food manager is responsible for ensuring all trips have their food available and prepped at the warehouse before trip launch.  This person is responsible for ensuring shopping happens, high quality food is prepped and sent out ready to be used in the field, and appropriate portion control occurs.

The Oregon Food Manager will:

• Look at what trips are coming up and in a timely fashion, ensure all required food to accommodate upcoming trips is shopped for so all materials are at the building to pack and prep.
• Shop for trips, ensuring high quality ingredients are used while also being cost sensitive and meeting purchasing spend goals.
• Have pre-prep work done and portions pre-packed so guides can arrive the morning of their trip and find their food accurately accounted for and organized in a way making it easy to pack and verify they have what they need.
• Use our meal packing software to help pack for trips ensure guides have the tools to be successful in the field.
• Work with guides in the field to adjust the quantities and menu based on guide/guest feedback.
• Work with the Oregon manager to improve our food offerings and culinary experience wherever possible.

Location

• This position operates out of our Oregon warehouse at 210 Merlin Rd. Merlin, Oregon. 97532.  Remote work is not possible.

Time

• This is a part-time, seasonal position starting in May and ending in November.  Position will ramp up to expecting 30-40 hours per week June-October.

Qualifications

Skills

• Detail oriented
• Self-starter
• Problem solver with ability to adapt and adjust.
• Good at working as part of a team.
• Strong communicator
• Culinary training is ideal
• Able to manage costs and modify on the fly.
• Ability to work with computer based menu planning software.
• Ability to take feedback on the menu or packing while not personalizing that feedback as a reflection of the work done.

Experience

• 5 years working in food service
• Proven experience as a buyer in food service
• Chef experience preferred

Salary : $16 - $20