Bar-B-Q Kitchen Manager: Lead Shifts, Grow Talent

Jim 'N Nick's Community Bar-B-Q; Covington (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Kitchen Manager Base Salary

Bonus plan

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k) with discretionary match

Company-Paid Life and Disability

Paid Vacation

Bar-B-Q Family Fund

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Jim 'N Nick's Community Bar-B-Q is seeking an experienced Kitchen Manager to lead back-of-house operations in a high-volume restaurant. You will supervise pit, line, prep, and dish, ensure food safety, and coach a team toward excellence.

Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, inventory control, and staff scheduling. You will hire, train, and set performance goals with the General Manager and Local Owner, maintaining a clean, safe, and high-quality kitchen environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of kitchen management experience in a high-volume restaurant
• Scratch-kitchen experience strongly preferred; pride in scratch-kitchen
• A teacher and a standard-setter: kitchen runs your way even when you’re off
• Disciplined with numbers: food cost, labor, waste, and inventory
• Calm, clear, and candid when the board is full
• High school diploma or GED required

Responsibilities

• Run effective shifts across the whole kitchen: pit, line, prep, and dish.
• Coach and develop assistant managers and team members on food quality, safety, sanitation, and standards.
• Manage BOH budgets, forecasting, inventory, and cost controls, and teach your assistants to do the same.
• Build BOH schedules that hit labor goals without ever shorting the guest.
• Interview and hire to keep the kitchen staffed with people who have real fire.
• Set and communicate goals with the General Manager and Local Owner.
• Keep the kitchen clean, stocked, safe, and ready, because Bar-B-Q is a job that’s never truly finished

Skills

Kitchen management

Leadership

Budgeting

Forecasting

Inventory control

Staff development

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Jim 'N Nick's Community Bar-B-Q is seeking an experienced Kitchen Manager to lead back-of-house operations in a high-volume restaurant. You will supervise pit, line, prep, and dish, ensure food safety, and coach a team toward excellence.

Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, inventory control, and staff scheduling. You will hire, train, and set performance goals with the General Manager and Local Owner, maintaining a clean, safe, and high-quality kitchen environment.