Commissary Leader
Sacramento, CA
Production – Culinary /
Full-time /
On-site
Blue Bottle Coffee is renowned for redefining coffee culture and hospitality. With our commitment to excellence, we are elevating our culinary offerings to match the high standards of our coffee. We are seeking a Commissary Leader to orchestrate our regional culinary operations and ensure the delivery of outstanding food to our cafes, aligning with our mission to delight our guests every day.
This is a full-time, salaried position based at our production facility in West Sacramento, CA. This position reports directly to the Culinary Production Manager.
About the Job:
The Commissary Leader plays a crucial role in overseeing all aspects of commissary operations, managing commissary team leads and a staff of dishwasher-prep cooks and savory and pastry baker-cooks to ensure the production of high-quality food items. This position requires a blend of culinary expertise with a focus on high volume output and high efficiency, exceptional communication and people-leadership abilities, and operational management to uphold our reputation as a brand committed to Blue Bottle Coffee standards of quality.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
You are:
- 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.
You have
- 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.
A few benefits we offer
- 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
Physical Requirements: This role is a physical one and the physical demands outlined below are representative of those that must be met for a team member to be successful in the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job which we’ve mapped out below.
- 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
$75,000 - $80,000 a year
At Blue Bottle Coffee, you’ll be a vital part of our guests’ experience and a crucial link in delivering the most delicious coffee we can find to every person who walks through our doors, be it in person or online. If you’re ready to bring beautiful and thoughtfully rendered experiences to life, please apply and join us.
Blue Bottle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value an open mind, dedication to work, and a collaborative spirit. We hire based on these qualities, a job’s requirements, our business’s needs, and an applicant’s qualifications. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind—in the hiring process or in the workplace.
We comply with the ADA and consider reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for eligible applicants/employees to perform essential functions.
We may refuse to hire relatives of present employees if doing so could result in actual or potential problems in supervision, security, safety, or morale, or if doing so could create conflicts of interest.
We will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We participate in E-Verify. We will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the U.S. We will only use E-Verify once an employee has accepted a job offer and completed Form I-9.
