Culinary Supervisor | Full-Time | McCormick Place Convention Center

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. 

OVG, the leading food service provider located at McCormick Place Convention Center, has an immediate opening for a Culinary Supervisor. This position reports to the Executive Chef with responsibilities to include purchasing, inventory control, scheduling and managing culinary staff, food safety program, cost of goods accountability, labor management, food production, and quality control.

This role pays an hourly rate of $30.00-$32.00

Benefits for Full-Time roles: Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, 401(k) Savings Plan, 401(k) matching, and Paid Time Off (vacation days, sick days, and 11 holidays)

This position will remain open until November 20, 2026. 

McCormick Place Convention Center located in downtown Chicago, is the largest and most flexible convention center in North America. With over 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space, the campus proudly hosts some of the world’s largest and most prestigious conventions, meetings, and trade shows, welcoming approximately 3 million visitors to Chicago every year.

• Trains new and existing cooks on food preparation with an emphasis on baking and cold preparation
• Supports cooks by giving verbal guidance as well as physically cooking, baking and preparing food to teach, train and demonstrate
• Supervises cooks to ensure quality, compliance and portion & production demand
• Assist in the implementation of daily HACCP forms and reinforces the importance
• Assist in creation of daily production sheets, standardized recipes and waste reports
• Supervises and supports BOH composting and recycling
• Reviews menus, analyzes recipes, and determines food, labor, and overhead costs
• Works hand in hand with cooks and bakers to guaranty the highest quality product
• Supports the Bakery with training of standardized recipes and skillful baking techniques
• And other duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Directly supervises Kitchen personnel
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with OVG's policies and applicable laws
• Responsibilities include training and assisting employees in daily food preparation operations
• Provide cooks the proper tools to complete their jobs to a high level of quality
• Retrain cooks on proper cooking fundamentals if need be
• Disciplining in coordination with Chefs and OVG's HR Department

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED
• Certificate from accredited culinary school, college or technical school is preferred
• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in a kitchen supervisor role

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to use and maintain basic food service and kitchen equipment
• Ability to train others in the use of basic food service and kitchen equipment
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to interact with all levels of staff, including leadership
• Ability to work with subordinates in a respectful, yet educational manner
• Ability to problem solve

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.