Production Manager
Campus Dining
Summary of Job Details
Production Manager ensures quality standards for food production, product freshness, sanitation, safety and customer satisfaction within strict budgetary parameters. Primary leader for 30+ professional production career staff producing a wide variety of products for the UCSB on-campus residents. Timing and coordination of many staff schedules to maintain deadlines for ordering, receiving, preparing and serving products on a constant seven-day a week schedule of 19 meal periods. Responsibilities include the upkeep of an $80 million industrial kitchen operation. This includes food service production equipment, storage, and vehicles, $2 million in food purchasing and associated vendor relations, recipe development, food safety and sanitation, maintenance and equipment repair, service systems and quality control, storage and project management. Provides the direct supervision, training and evaluation of career staff.
Required Qualifications
4-6 years of experience required, with the following:
Experience in restaurant or institutional food service operations
Excellent communication and customer service skills including ability to actively listen and effectively convey information, policy and procedures both orally and in writing.
Ability to effectively work in a high-volume operation with continuous personnel actions.
Ability to effectively work with other managers and full-time staff as a team.
Ability to utilize a computer, learn new software and to work with Word.
Ability to manage a large part time workforce.
Or, equivalent combination of education and experience
Special Conditions of Employment
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day
Work hours/days may vary
Satisfactory criminal historybackground check
UCSB is a Tobacco-Free environment.
Days/Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:30a - 6:00p (Days/Hours Vary)
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.
Application review begins 10/13/2025
Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #81503
