Melissa Deli - Production Spec - Part time

Responsibilities

• Provides customers with 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 for all products to ensure 100% stock levels.
• Completes tasks at assigned workstation.
• Affords assistance in multiple cooking venues and catering orders.
• Masters recipe preparation, including handling 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 standard operating procedures.
• Handles and maintains temperature integrity of all ingredients, products, and equipment operation.
• Maintains organization and sanitation in food preparation areas.
• 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 superior customer service at all times; provides internal customer service.
• Accurately produces and delivers e-commerce customer orders.
• Displays detailed knowledge of menu items, ingredients, and prep methods.
• Affords assistance to guests as needed.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• Age Requirement: 18+
• Work Experience: 1+ years of experience in commercial foodservice.
• Experience: Experience in food preparation and equipment.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 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.
• Education: HS Diploma or GED or equivalent.
• Licenses/Certifications: 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.
• Constantly stand, walk, reach at waist, grasp.
• Frequently be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic materials.
• Frequently be exposed to heat.
• Occasionally reach at overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, climb stairs, pivot twist, push / pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements, shoulder circumduction.
• Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, ambient temperatures, and loud noise.
• Demonstrate the ability to lift 80 lbs, and manage in excess of 80 lbs with a team lift.

Last revised: 8/1/2021