Take Off with us as a Production Manager – Inflight Catering excellence starts with you!
Posted on 13/06/2025
Mission
About Us: Newrest is a specialist in out-of-home catering in 54 countries, and the only player to intervene in all sectors of catering and related services, Newrest is one of the world leaders in multi-sector catering. Our 40,000 committed and talented employees do what is necessary to offer consumers balanced, diversified and tasty meals while scrupulously respecting hygiene and food safety standards. We are seeking an experienced Inflight Catering Production Director to oversee our high-volume food production operations and ensure world-class service delivery to our airline partners.
Responsabilities:
- Lead and manage a team of Production managers, Team leaders, cooks and production workers.
- Ensure proper monitoring of procedures within the department; Liaise between handling service and food service;
- Ensure the integration and training of new employees
- Collaborate with menu planning, procurement and logistics team to ensure smooth coordination and inventory control
- Supervise meal production in accordance with menus from datasheets, evaluate or control and have to correct if necessary;
- Oversee manufacturing techniques (cooking, setting up, training, etc); Provide datasheets services and report any changes of cycle;
- Implement process improvements to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize costs.
- Complaints Managing by reporting analysis, actions and their follow up; Enforce hygiene and food safety rules;
- Check and ensure the proper implementation of procedures to be followed and the quality of the service provided;
- Track non-conformities related to food safety and hygiene; Inform staff about the importance of the good maintenance of equipment and facilities; Empower staff to the cleanliness of premises and equipment;
- Monitoring the effectiveness of late afternoon cleaning; Inventory Management;
- Management of maintenance products; Supervise storage of materials stocks;
- Establish schedules of employees and determine the need for temporary workers and regular employees;
- Manage production to cope with last-minute changes due to flights modifications or cancellations;
- Manager is responsible for the improvement of the Quality Management System;
Profile
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in high volume catering or food production, preferably in inflight catering.
- Proven experience managing large, diverse kitchen teams under strict deadlines.
- Knowledge of food safety (HACCP, ISO, airline food safety protocols)
- strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- culinary or Hospitality Management degree.
- MS Office, Computer skills
- no 9am-17pm mentality.
- Speaking Dutch, English, French a plus.
Newrest is offering you:
- Salary is negotiable, depends on experience,
- 8% holiday allowance,
- 8,33% End-Year bonus,
- 25 vacation days + 13 ATV days,
- Travel allowance.