Deli Assistant Manager

Jet-Food-Stores; Metter (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Jet-Food-Stores is seeking a Deli Manager on duty to assist with daily deli operations, staffing, scheduling, and ensuring product availability.

You will recruit, train, and develop deli staff, monitor inventory, maintain clean, safe store conditions, and control costs through waste tracking and labor productivity.

This role emphasizes health standards, accurate reporting, and customer service, with opportunities to step into management when needed.

Qualifications

• Read, understand, and write English language at the eighth-grade level.
• Perform arithmetic calculations at the eighth-grade level for pricing and vendor check-in; follow recipes.
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds and carry heavy deli items.
• Stand for 8–10 hours while cooking and serving customers.
• Work in hot environments around ovens, fryers, grills; wear appropriate safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Assist Deli Manager with daily deli operations.
• Recruit, train and develop deli staff.
• Provide performance and motivational feedback to employees.
• Prepare work schedules and monitor inventory for in-stock efficiency.
• Maintain a clean and safe store environment and control costs through waste and labor productivity.
• Submit timely and accurate store reports and ensure health standards.

Skills

Reading and writing English

Arithmetic calculations

Lifting up to 50 pounds

Stamina for long shifts

Safety awareness

Job description

Assists Deli Manager all daily operations of the deli including but not limited to:

• Recruit, Train and develop deli staff.
• Provide performance and motivational feedback to employees.
• Prepare work schedules.
• Monitor ordering to ensure in-stock efficiency and balanced inventory for food service items.
• Maintain a clean and safe store environment.
• Control key cost expense lines through inventory, waste tracking, and labor productivity.
• Submit timely and accurate store reports.
• Ensure food service areas maintain required health and cleanliness standards.
• Ensure food preparation procedures are followed
• Monitor food production and sales to control waste.
• Smile Greet and be courteous to customers
• Learn the duties of a deli manager to operate the deli as manager-on duty when manager is scheduled off on a weekly basis or on vacation, in meetings, training or other reasons for being absent from the store.
• Be prepared to step into management if desired and when needed.

The following constitute “essential functions” of the job.

• Read, understand, and write the English language at the eighth-grade level;
• Perform arithmetic calculations at the eighth-grade level in order to be able to account for a variety of products during vendor check-in; accurately price deli merchandise and follow directions for recipes
• Have sufficient visual acuity to read labels, recipes, temperature readings and to avoid general hazards form working in a deli which has hot equipment present.
• Read and understand instructions for proper cooking procedures, recipes, dates, and general instructions concerning the deli area.
• Can lift up to 50 pounds, and carry cases of chicken, boxes of potatoes and large bags of flour.
• Can stand or your feet for 8 to 10 hours while cooking and serving customers.
• Can react to a fire by lifting the fire extinguisher and using it to extinguish the fire
• Can work in a hot environment around hot equipment such as ovens, fryer and grills
• Can work in cold conditions for brief periods such as the cooler or freezers

The list of requirements, duties, and responsibilities listed above is by no means a complete list. It is merely a general summary for the position described. Management reserves the right to revise or change this position description at any time.

Disclaimer

The list of requirements, duties, and responsibilities listed above is by no means a complete list. It is merely a general summary for the position described. Management reserves the right to revise or change this position description at any time.

Additional Job Information

Deli Managers and Team Members are responsible for preparing, slicing, cooking, weighing, pricing, serving food and merchandising the department’s deli products. Deli products include deli meats, cheeses, salads, sandwiches, breakfast items, fried foods and vegetables for hot case items. They inform customers about our deli products and services and help increase sales by having a great food presentation in the hot deli case, great general cleanliness of the deli area, great customer service skills and suggestive selling deli merchandise. They work with equipment like fryers, ovens, grills, serving utensils, knives and potato cutters. Employees are responsible for filling out daily cook sheets for food production and to control waste. Employees must date and rotate all merchandise in the coolers and freezers.