Central Market (Austin Westgate) - Cafe Line Cook - Full time

H-E-B; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Market is seeking a Production Specialist with availability to include days, evenings, and weekends to handle the freshest quality ingredients. The role works under direct supervision, applying basic and some advanced skills to procedures, tools, and equipment.

You will be responsible for achieving goals and maintaining product quality and inventory across production areas. Responsibilities include producing and stocking items, ensuring quality, maintaining sanitation, reading daily

Qualifications

• Experience with commercial production preferred.
• 1+ years experience in food preparation and experience required
• 2-5 years of related experience

Responsibilities

• Mix, shape, bake, wrap and stock products.
• Ensure quality control before sending to sales floor
• Maintain sanitation in the department
• Organize back storage, freezer and production areas
• Read and execute daily production list
• Compute weights, discounts, percentages and volumes
• Provide customer service by answering questions and taking orders
• Monitor quality of goods and shrink
• Order and receive products and supplies
• Maintain transfer records
• Prep, wrap, price, sell and stock products
• Demo or prepare customer samples for self-serve
• Deliver excellent customer service
• Use suggestive selling to maximize sales

Skills

Food production

Customer service

Communication

Overnight shifts

Job description

Responsibilities

Central Market is seeking a Production Specialist with availability to include days, evenings, and weekends to handle the freshest quality ingredients.

Production Specialists work under direct supervision. They will apply basic and some advanced skills in procedures, techniques, tools, materials and/or equipment appropriate to are of specialization. They will accept responsibility for achieving goals/objectives. Use of specialized subject matter knowledge required.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Include mixing, shaping, baking, wrapping and stocking of products
• Ensures quality control of all product before sending to sales floor
• Maintains sanitation in the department
• Maintains organization of back storage, freezer, walk-in and production area
• Reads and executes daily production list
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as weights, discounts, percentages and volumes
• Provides customer service as required such as answering questions, taking orders on the phone
• Assists in monitoring the quality of goods and monitors shrink
• Orders and receives products and supplies
• Maintains transfer records
• Preps, wraps, prices, sells, and stocks products continuously
• Demos, or prepares customer samples for self-serve
• Provides superlative customers service
• Uses suggestive selling techniques to maximize sales

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• Experience with commercial production preferred
• 1+ years experience in food preparation and experience required
• 2-5 years of related experience

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrates and shares expertise about food
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Ability to coach other Partners
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work overnight and flexible schedules (days, evenings, weekends, and holidays)
• Ability to inform customers about ingredients

Values diversity

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Lift and carry moderate to heavy loads (minimum of 50 lbs.) Bend, reach, push, and pull
• Ability to work overnight and flexible schedules (days, evenings, weekends, and holidays)

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Last revised: 2/1/2004