Posted 8 days ago
Food Services Manager
@ Optima Living
Surrey, British Columbia
Overview
PICS Society (Progressive Intercultural Community Services) is hiring a Food Services Manager at Optima Living, a seniors housing facility with assisted living and adult daycare. The role prepares home-cooked meals for residents, leads the food services and housekeeping team, and manages unit budgets, staff scheduling and payroll. It requires leadership experience in food services and food safety certification.
Pay:
$27.58–$29.51 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coach the food services and housekeeping team
- Prepare and schedule staff, and complete bi-weekly culinary payroll
- Plan menus and cook home-style meals, considering dietary restrictions
- Order, receive and monitor food inventory and supplies
- Maintain provincial compliance, inspection readiness and food safety
Requirements summary:
- Minimum two years restaurant or home-cooking experience
- Leadership experience in food services required
- Background in residential care or hotel food services is strong asset
- Food Safe certification
- Clear Police Information Check and Vulnerable Sector Check
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-29
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-30
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Allied health |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Care home, Restaurant or kitchen |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | Food Safe, WHMIS |
| Background checks | criminal record, vulnerable sector |
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Optima Living
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Full company description
Optima Living—founded in 2007—owns and operates innovative seniors’ living communities throughout Alberta and BC, taking an unprecedented approach to senior life. Their unique company culture is one where both residents and team members are family. Optima Living’s North Star, Let us welcome you home, speaks to their underlying principles and the experience seniors discover in their communities. When residents are home, they feel safe, respected, and welcome. Home is where one’s voice is heard, their views matter, and they have freedom of choice. Optima Living’s mission, vision, and values—respect, dignity, teamwork, and doing the right thing—support and build upon their North Star. Optima Living operates over 3,700 beds providing congregate living options for seniors. These options range from subsidized to luxury, Independent to Assisted Living, Long-term Care to Memory Care, and Residential Mental Health. For more information, visit optimaliving.ca. Optima Living is also an approved service provider with both the interior Health Authority (IHA) and the Fraser Health Authority (FHA), is a licensed care provider under the BC Community Care and Assisted Living Act, and is registered as an approved Assisted Living (AL) Operator with the AL Registrar of BC.
- LinkedIn followers
- 13,524
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 403
- Reported office locations
- 900-688 W Hastings St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1P1, CA
- 8382 156 St, Surrey, British Columbia V3S 3R7, CA
- 806-0235 101 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3G1, CA
- Business categories
- Hospital
- Health Care
- Other recorded names
- Optima Living
- Specialties
- Seniors Indepedant Living
- Seniors Assisted Living
- and Seniors Mental Health
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- 0
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Optima Living—founded in 2007—owns and operates innovative seniors’ living communities throughout Alberta and BC, taking an unprecedented approach to senior life. Their unique company culture is one where both residents and team members are family. Optima Living’s North Star, Let us welcome you home, speaks to their underlying principles and the experience seniors discover in their communities. When residents are…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitals and Health Care |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2007 |
| Specialties | Seniors Indepedant LivingSeniors Assisted Livingand Seniors Mental Health |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 196 |
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About PICS and Optima Living:
Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) Society is a registered community-based non-profit, multi-service organization that has served the community since 1987. PICS Society assists youth, seniors, women, and the local community members by providing a comprehensive network of services and programs in the Lower Mainland and operates a Seniors Housing facility that includes assisted living, independent living, adult daycare program.
PICS Society is currently developing the next level of care with Guru Nanak Diversity Village (GNDV), a culturally sensitive “complex care” or “long-term care” Care Community that will meet the needs of seniors who require the support of full care services.
Position Summary
The Food Services Manager is responsible for the well-being of the residents through the preparation and delivery of home-cooked meals, as well as supervision of the food services and housekeeping team. This position reports to the General Manager.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leading & Engagement
- Provides coaching & mentoring
- Conducts performance evaluations
- Promotes team building and engagement
- Manage and meet the financial commitments in the unit budgets
Administration & Compliances
- Recruitment of new team members as needed, including skill-based interviews
- Preparing staff schedule
- Completion of bi-weekly payroll for culinary department
- Maintains provincial compliance standards to ensure successful inspections
- Ensure OH and S and WHMIS policies and procedures are maintained
- Ensure the environment is safe and sanitary for staff and residents; makes efforts to reduce safety hazards, accidents, and injuries where possible
- Interact with residents to resolve inquiries in a friendly, service-oriented manner
Food Services Operations & Inventory Management
- Order and receive food services items
- Menu planning and production
- Hands on position assisting cooks with food preparation and cooking as required
- Cook quality, home-style meals while considering dietary restrictions when required
- Store food in designated areas following all food safety and sanitation procedures
- Ensure proper food handling, presentation, portion control and maintenance of appropriate serving temperatures
- Monitor inventory and deliveries of products and supplies
- Other duties as assigned to support operational requirements
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of two (2) year experience with restaurant or home-cooking
- Strong background in food services in a residential care setting or hotel
- Leadership experience in food services is required
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with peers, residents, visitors, and operational partners
- Superior organizational skills with the ability to handle fast paced environment
- Comprehensive food services knowledge, including focus on quality, production, sanitation, and presentation
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and problem solve
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time
Conditions of Employment
- Food Safe Certification
- Clear Police Information Check
- Clear Vulnerable Sector Check
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