KITCHEN SHIFT LEADER
Jimbo's
- San Diego, CA
- $20.00-24.50 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Medical, Dental, & Vision insurance packages - FT employees
- 401k plan - Employer matching
- Paid time off accruals
- 20% Employee discount
- Free Box Items for employees
- Performance reviews (30-day, 6-month, Annual)
- Quarterly Bonus*
- Happy Hour Bonus*
- Birthday Bonus*
- Perform all Kitchen duties as well as additional supervisory duties listed below.
- Proactively assist customers within the guidelines outlined in our Customer Service Standards and ensure that the Deli Counter Staff are doing the same.
- Represent Jimbo's and store management, assume ownership of Kitchen operations and represent Jimbo's in the absence of Kitchen management.
- Maintain a clean and safe working environment according to Health Department regulations.
- Assist with key human resource functions by enforcing all store/department policies, minimizing overtime, training new employees, monitoring staff breaks, and completing documentation in a timely manner (i.e., one on one meeting, feedback for performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, and terminations).
- Supervise duties of Kitchen staff, including minimizing overtime, monitoring staff breaks and keeping staff productive during slow periods.
- Assist Kitchen Manager in department development and succession training.
- Assist Kitchen Manager with inventory and ordering, and in the proper recording of in-store purchases.
- Monitor credits, spoilage and shrink through effective organization, rotation and follow through.
- Ensure all products meet quality standards through proper labeling, rotation, cleanliness, sanitation, and hygiene, and by only selling fresh products.
- Oversee special orders to ensure they are taken care of appropriately and in a timely manner.
- Communicate concerns, suggestions, feedback, and ideas to the Kitchen Manager and/or Director of Food Service.
- Able to create daily production sheets and delegate jobs to Cook I and Cook II according to skill level.
- Ensure that the hygiene and food safety standards are met in all stages of food preparation, starting with the ingredients, and ending with the finished dishes.
- Ensure that all kitchen equipment is in a clean working order and alert management of any malfunction before it affect the efficiencies of the kitchen.
- Assist other team members in achieving the goals of the department and the store.
- Know store layout/product location to refer the customer to the appropriate aisle when asked.
- Maintain clean and neat appearance in compliance with Dress Code policy.
- Adhere to and enforce all Kitchen and store policies as outlined by the Kitchen Management, Staff Member Handbook, and Injury an Illness Prevention Plan.
- Ability to work under a variety of conditions and temperatures, wet and dry, for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work safely around kitchen machinery and sharp knives.
- Previous food service experience.
- Excellent customer service, communication, and organizational skills.
- Leadership and team-building skills with the ability to coach, motivate, supervise, delegate, and constructively address performance issues.
- Capable of handling several tasks at once.
- Friendly and outgoing personality.
- Ability to understand, follow, and enforce Department of Health regulations, and obtain a Food Handler's Certificate within 10 days of employment.
- Understand the importance of the handling of allergen containing products.
- Ability to travel and/or transfer to other store locations.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs throughout any assigned shift unassisted.
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time.
- Ability to climb and balance on a step stool/ladder.
- Ability to stoop, kneel and crouch.
- Ability to sustain repetitive arm and hand motion.