Location: Creative Dining Services at Dordt University in Sioux Center, IA
Pay: $55,000 - $57,500 with performance bonus eligbility
Lead with Purpose. Create Exceptional Dining Experiences. Inspire a Team. Creative Dining Services is looking for a passionate and motivated Production Manager to join our dining services team at Dordt University. If you thrive in a fast-paced kitchen environment, enjoy leading teams, and take pride in serving high-quality food with excellence and care, we’d love to meet you! As Production Manager, you’ll play a key leadership role in ensuring nutritious, flavorful, and properly prepared meals are delivered across campus operations in a fiscally responsible and sustainable manner. You’ll work closely with the dining leadership team to create an outstanding experience for students, staff, and guests every day.
What You’ll Do
- Train, lead, and support kitchen staff
- Assist with hiring, scheduling, timekeeping, and team development
- Supervise culinary operations across dining locations
- Partner with the Executive Chef and Dining Services leadership team
- Maintain strong relationships with customers, staff, vendors, and the campus community
- Help drive operational improvements and production efficiency
- Ensure high standards for food quality, safety, and presentation
What We’re Looking For
- Minimum 3 years of food service experience
- ServSafe Certification required
- Management experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
- Passion for hospitality, teamwork, and customer satisfaction
Why Join Creative Dining Services?
- Collaborative and supportive team environment
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on campus life
- Leadership growth and development opportunities
- A mission-driven workplace focused on excellence and community
Why You Will Love Working Here:
- Steady, predictable schedule
- Competitive pay at $55,000 - 57,500 annual with performance bonus eligiblity
- DailyPay - access to your pay as soon as the next day!
- Great benefit offerings - Health, Dental, and Vision!
- TextCare – feeling bad? Help is just a text away!
- 401K Match - If you invest in your retirement, we will too!
- Friendly, welcoming campus environment
- Be part of something bigger—serving a thriving education community
Bring your leadership, creativity, and passion for food to a team that values quality, service, and people. Apply today and help us create memorable dining experiences at Dordt University!
About Creative Dining Services
Creative Dining Services partners with college, universities,
Fortune 100 companies, full-service senior living communities, conference
centers and K-12 schools and camps to provide a different kind of hospitality
and facility management services experience – one that’s fun, innovative, and
focused on your community. Why? Because that’s how it should be.
Creative Dining Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Veteran-Friendly!
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What We Do
Creative Dining Services partners with colleges, universities, Fortune 100 companies, full-service senior living communities, conference centers and K-12 schools and camps to provide a different kind of hospitality and facility management services experience—one that’s fun, innovative, and focused on your community. Why? Because that’s how it should be. At Creative Dining Services we know that dining is much more than eating a meal: it’s a social hub, it fosters culture, it brings people together and allows them to engage in their community. That’s why our vision is to be the most trustworthy, flexible and attentive hospitality partner. It is only by fulfilling our vision that we are able to accomplish our number-one goal: enhancing your community with the customized dining program you both want and need.
