Lockhart Deli - Production Spec - Part-Time

Responsibilities

• Produces fresh, made-in-store product, focusing on hot foods like rotisserie chicken and sandwiches.
• Maintains and ensures compliance with department and food safety/sanitation standards.
• Uses multiple and more complex production planning tools to ensure 100% inventory levels.
• Completes tasks at assigned workstation and assists in various cooking venues.
• Assists with technical areas and catering orders as needed.
• Masters recipe preparation, accounting for raw material variations and customer demand.
• Prepares, packages, and stocks fresh product.
• Performs other duties as needed.

Food Safety / Sanitation

• Ensures compliance with department and store standard operating procedures.
• Maintains proper handling and temperature integrity of all ingredients, products, and equipment.
• Keeps food preparation areas organized and sanitized.
• Operates and maintains equipment safely.
• Works collaboratively with team members to ensure a safe, clean, and productive operation.

Customer Service

• Provides customers with a sense of urgency regarding accuracy, speed, and freshness of their orders.
• Ensures accurate production and delivery of e-commerce customer orders.
• Displays detailed knowledge of menu items, ingredients, and prep methods.
• Assists guests as needed.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in commercial foodservice.
• Experience in food preparation and equipment.
• Culinary knowledge, understanding of nutritional values and ingredients.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Reading and writing skills.
• Technology skills.
• Planning and organizing skills.
• Culinary math skills for recipe conversion.
• Ability to execute high-volume production.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Culinary certification or equivalent culinary training/work experience.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Function in a fast-paced, retail environment.
• Work extended hours and/or rotating schedules.
• Safely maneuver around moving mechanical parts.
• Be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic materials.
• Be exposed to heat.
• Reach at waist, grasp, and perform fine motor movements.
• Bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, climb stairs, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms.
• Occasionally lift up to 80 lbs and manage in excess of 80 lbs with a team lift.
• Be exposed to wet, cold, ambient temperatures, and loud noise.