Granbury Deli - Production Spec - Part time

Production Specialist

As a Production Specialist, you'll provide our Customers with fresh, made in store product, with a focus on hot foods such as rotisserie chicken and sandwiches. You'll maintain and ensure compliance with department and food safety / sanitation standards. Key responsibilities include:

• Production / Food Service: Cuts, slices, dices, chops, food for recipe preparation; preps in accordance with recipe specifications and SOPs
• Uses multiple and more complex production planning tools for all products to ensure 100% in-stocks
• Completes tasks at assigned workstation
• Assists in multiple cooking venues
• Assists in technical areas, and with catering orders, as needed
• Masters recipe preparation, including daily production to account for raw material variations and customer demand
• Prepares, packages, and stocks fresh product
• Food Safety / Sanitation: Ensures compliance with department Store and standard operating procedures
• Properly handles / maintains temperature integrity of all ingredients, product, and equipment operation
• Maintains organization and sanitation in food preparation areas
• Properly handles, operates, and maintains equipment
• Performs as a team member to help ensure a safe, clean, productive operation
• Customer Service: Provides / ensures Customers a sense of urgency related to accuracy, speed, and freshness of their order
• Provides superior customer service at all times; provides internal customer service
• Ensures accurate production and delivery of e-Commerce customer orders
• Provides detailed knowledge of menu items, ingredients, prep methods, etc.
• Assists guests as needed

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

• Age Requirement: 18+
• Work Experience: 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
• 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

It is Partners responsibility to never lift beyond their own safe lifting limit. If an item is too heavy to lift, push or pull, and / or carry, the Partner must break the box down into lighter, smaller, more manageable components, or ask for assistance from another Partner or a manager.