Culinary Manager in Anacortes, Washington at Anacortes South of Olympus LLC

Culinary Manager

Rosario Assisted Living | Anacortes, WA

Supporting Assisted Living & Skilled Nursing

Great food. Strong teams. A dining experience residents look forward to.

At Rosario Assisted Living, food is about more than what's on the plate. Meals bring people together, create routine and connection, and are an important part of making our community feel like home.

We're looking for a Culinary Manager who brings together great food, strong leadership, and thoughtful hospitality. This role supports both our Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing services, making it a great opportunity for someone who understands that senior living dining requires creativity, consistency, safety, and attention to individual resident needs.

What You'll Do

As Culinary Manager, you'll take ownership of the culinary program while building and developing a team that takes pride in what they serve.

You'll:

• Lead, coach, schedule, and develop cooks, dietary aides, and culinary team members.
• Oversee daily food preparation, dining service, sanitation, and kitchen operations.
• Create a consistent, welcoming dining experience where quality, presentation, and resident preferences matter.
• Coordinate menus that offer variety while meeting dietary orders and modified or therapeutic diet needs.
• Partner with nursing, community leadership, and the dietitian to support resident nutritional needs.
• Maintain food safety, sanitation, storage, temperature, and documentation standards.
• Manage ordering, inventory, food costs, supplies, and waste.
• Listen to resident feedback and look for creative ways to continually improve the dining experience.
• Maintain a kitchen and culinary program that is ready for regulatory surveys and inspections.
• Step in and work alongside the team when needed. We are looking for a leader who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves.
• These responsibilities align with Olympus's existing Manager, Dietary I, II - ALF framework, which includes culinary staff leadership, menu planning, modified and therapeutic diets, food safety, budgeting, inventory, and resident satisfaction.

Why Join Rosario?

This is an opportunity to make your mark on more than a kitchen.

You'll have the chance to build a strong team, elevate the dining experience, bring new ideas forward, and create meals and experiences that residents genuinely look forward to.

If you're a culinary leader who cares about great food, great people, and making a difference every day, we'd love to meet you.

Bring your leadership to the table. We'd love to see what you can create.

What You'll Bring

• Previous culinary, dietary, hospitality, or food-service experience.
• Leadership or supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in senior living, Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, healthcare, institutional dining, or another high-volume food-service environment preferred.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, kitchen operations, and meal production.
• Experience with modified and therapeutic diets is highly preferred.
• Strong leadership skills and a genuine interest in coaching and developing others.
• The ability to balance resident experience, regulatory requirements, staffing, and operational priorities.
• High school diploma or GED required; culinary arts, hospitality, nutrition, or food-service management education is a plus.

A valid Washington Food Worker Card is required for food workers. Washington requires Assisted Living food-service operations to comply with applicable food-service sanitation requirements, including food-worker card requirements.

Because this position supports Skilled Nursing as well as Assisted Living, the successful candidate must also meet the applicable Washington requirements to serve in the food-service manager/director-of-food-service capacity for the Skilled Nursing operation. Washington's nursing-home regulations establish specific qualifications for the food-service manager when a qualified dietitian is not serving full-time in that role.