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Mendocino Farms
1.001 – 5.000 Angajați
Alimente și băuturiB2COspitalitate
Mendocino Farms este o companie de restaurante fast-casual și servicii de catering, fondată în 2005. Oferă sandvișuri, salate și preparate reconfortante inspirate din bucătării ale lumii, pregătite la comandă, precum și servicii de catering pentru grupuri și evenimente. Compania îmbină oferta de mâncare și ospitalitate cu opțiuni convenabile de comandă, precum livrarea, ridicarea personală, comenzile de grup, o aplicație mobilă și eClub, punând accent pe implicarea în comunitate și pe experiențe culinare memorabile.

Director of Restaurant Design - Texas Remote

Lead restaurant prototypes, remodels, design standards, and delivery for Mendocino Farms. Balance guest experience, operational performance, cost, and scalable growth across new and existing locations.

Descriere

  • Manage, mentor, and develop internal designers and external design partners
  • Coordinate design resources with the restaurant development pipeline
  • Provide senior design leadership for complex, high-profile, and high-risk projects and decisions
  • Own and advance restaurant prototypes, design standards, material palettes, finishes, furniture, fixtures, lighting, equipment integration, and repeatable design details
  • Deliver a consistent Mendocino Farms experience while responding to site conditions, market requirements, and business objectives
  • Define and strengthen the company’s creative design direction
  • Develop standards that support guest circulation, ordering and pickup, digital and delivery operations, seating, accessibility, storage, serviceability, and daily operations
  • Collaborate with Operations, Culinary, Facilities, Construction, and equipment vendors to improve kitchen layouts, back-of-house flow, equipment integration, ergonomics, throughput, food safety, and maintainability
  • Apply lessons from opened locations to future layouts, prototypes, and specifications
  • Direct design work for new restaurants, remodels, and refresh programs from feasibility studies and concepts through permit-ready documents and construction support
  • Implement design quality-control processes and phase-gate reviews
  • Lead cross-functional design reviews and turn stakeholder feedback into actionable direction
  • Work with Construction to preserve design intent, improve constructability, and reduce rework, RFIs, and change orders
  • Select, brief, oversee, and assess architects, interior designers, engineers, and specialty vendors
  • Recommend value-engineering strategies while balancing brand expression, operational effectiveness, durability, cost, schedule, and long-term unit economics
  • Monitor design-team performance, capacity, risks, and priorities
  • Create the annual design operating plan with Real Estate and report regularly on delivery progress

Cerințe

  • At least 10 years of progressive experience in restaurant, retail, hospitality, architecture, interior design, or a related built-environment field
  • Experience managing a design team, studio, function, or significant group of external design partners in a fast-paced, multi-project setting
  • Substantial hands-on experience designing restaurants or similarly operationally complex commercial environments, including prototypes, new-unit expansion, remodels, and site-specific adaptations
  • Strong understanding of restaurant operations and design, including front- and back-of-house flow, kitchen equipment, labor and ergonomics, guest circulation and accessibility, pickup and delivery, food safety, storage, and maintainability
  • Experience directing architects, interior designers, engineers, and specialty vendors against quality, schedule, scope, and budget goals
  • Working knowledge of construction documents, design QA/QC, permitting, building and health codes, design detailing, accessibility, shop-drawing review, and constructability
  • Financial understanding of design budgets, cost drivers, value engineering, specification decisions, lifecycle durability, and unit economics
  • Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Environmental Design, Product Design, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered
  • Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu, Excel, PowerPoint, and project-management software
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for market visits, project milestones, and team meetings
  • Ability to lift 25 pounds
  • Ability to sit or stand for 6 to 8 hours
  • Ability to perform single-hand grasping, fine manipulation, pushing, and pulling
  • Ability to bend, twist, squat, and reach as required

Beneficii

  • Competitive compensation
  • Meal privileges
  • Health insurance benefits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid vacation

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