Kitchen Manager

Oak View Group (OVG) is the global leader in premium live entertainment infrastructure and services, with a platform spanning venue development and end-to-end capabilities across venue management, hospitality, and sponsorship sales. Founded in 2015, the company serves a collection of seven world-class owned venues and a client roster of the most iconic arenas, stadiums, convention centers, music festivals, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions, spanning four continents. 

The Kitchen Manager assists the Executive Chef in overseeing the kitchen, delegating work assignments, and ensuring that all food for concession stands and banquets is prepared on time and up to Oak View Group’s quality standards. The Kitchen Manager must maintain excellent attendance and be available to work events as scheduled per business needs.

This role pays an hourly rate of $25.00.

Benefits for Part-Time roles: 401(k) Savings Plan and 401(k) matching.

This position will remain open until February 12, 2027.

• Show demonstrated ability to meet Oak View Group’s standard for excellent attendance
• Go over daily BEOs and concession menus with the Chef
• Make detailed daily prep sheets and go over with the staff all quantities, times, and locations and who is delegated to accomplish work assignments
• Delegate daily work assignments to culinary staff
• Train culinary staff to prepare food up to Oak View Group’s standards and recipes
• Oversee the sanitation of the kitchen.
• Manage storage and rotation of food in the walk-in refrigerators, freezers, and dry storeroom
• Oversee the preparation of hot and cold foods for concession stands and banquets
• Create a daily menu for the employee's dining room and delegate its preparation
• Assist the Chef in food ordering
• Communicate daily with the Chef and discuss all necessary topics to ensure proper operational flow
• Responsible for assisting with regular inventory counts

• 3-5 years of culinary experience in a kitchen environment
• Minimum 2 years of high volume, foodservice management experience
• Possess a foodservice certification
• Ability to communicate with employees, co-workers, management staff, and guests in a clear, businesslike, and respectful manner, which focuses on generating a positive, enthusiastic, and cooperative work environment.
• Possess a valid food handling certificate (Servesafe)
• Ability to train the culinary staff of all aspects of cooking. procedures and standards
• Knowledge of hot foods, stocks, soups, and sauces and the ability to prepare all foods using a recipe
• Must know how to roast all meats, poultry, and fish items to proper temperatures
• Knowledge of cold food, salads, fruit trays, cheese trays, and Garde Manger skills
• Must have strong knife skills
• Ability to use equipment like steamers, kettles, fryers, grilles, ovens, and braziers
• Must be able to read a BEO and break down prep assignments to culinary staff
• Must understand storing procedures for all food items as well as labeling and dating items

At OVG, we understand that to continue positively disrupting the sports and live entertainment industry, we need a diverse team to help us do it. We also believe that inclusivity drives innovation, strengthens our people, improves our service, and raises our excellence. Our success is rooted in creating environments that reflect and celebrate the diverse communities in which we operate and serve, and this is the reason we are committed to amplifying voices from all different backgrounds.

Oak View Group is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis (“protected class”) including, but not limited to veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.