Shift Lead - Moe's Southwest Grill

Moes Southwest Grill Group; Athol Springs (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Moe's Southwest Grill is seeking a Shift Manager to oversee daily restaurant operations, ensure quality food preparation, and deliver excellent guest service in a fast-paced setting. The role emphasizes training staff, enforcing food safety and brand standards, and maintaining a positive, professional work environment.

Responsibilities include coaching the team, ensuring compliance, and driving overall performance to meet company goals while representing Moe's in a professional manner at all

Qualifications

• Good guest services skills
• Good communication skills to multiple audiences
• Effective shift management skills
• Ability to multi-task and lead a restaurant team

Responsibilities

• Manage daily restaurant operations and ensure quality food prep, packaging and serving in a timely fashion
• Maintain 100% guest satisfaction in quality, service and cleanliness
• Enforce sanitary practices and food safety, ensure security and safety of guests and employees
• Coach staff on operational standards and take corrective action as needed
• Maintain professional image with punctuality, cleanliness and appearance
• Represent Moe's professionally in all aspects of performance

Skills

Guest services

Communication

Shift management

Multi-tasking

Leadership

Job description

Shift Manager

Summary: The Shift Lead is responsible for managing the daily operations of the Moe's Southwest Grill. Responsible for ensuring that the restaurant team creates quality food and providing quality guest service in a fun, fast-paced environment. Responsible for ensuring the restaurant team adheres to company policies, procedures and standards.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for ensuring the restaurant team is properly trained for prepping, cooking, packaging and serving food for our guests in a timely fashion. Ensures that the prepared food product meets operational, food safety and brand standards. Manages food flow, ordering, receiving, storing and servicing to ensure high quality product, proper portioning and low waste. Coaches restaurant team on operational standards and takes corrective action as necessary.
• Accountable for maintaining a fun, fast-paced atmosphere for our employees and guests. Ensures that the restaurant team greets guests by stating, "Welcome to Moe's!" Ensures 100% guest satisfaction in areas of quality, service and cleanliness. Takes corrective action as necessary.
• Responsible for enforcing sanitary practices for food handling, general cleanliness and maintenance of exterior, kitchen and dining areas. Ensures compliance with food safety and brand standards. Ensures proper security procedures are in place to protect guests, employees and assets. Responsible for guest and employee safety to reduce injury or accidents. Completes administrative paperwork in a timely fashion.
• Maintains a professional image including punctuality, cleanliness, uniform and appearance standards.
• Consistently exhibits the actions/behaviors which best demonstrate the company values; perform all other tasks as directed by the company leadership team to include all restaurant management and their assigned representatives; always represent Moe's as a professional in every aspect of performance.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Good guest services skills
• Good communication skills to multiple audiences
• Effective shift management skills
• Computer skills
• Self-disciplined and leadership skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to effectively lead a restaurant team to achieve company goals
• Adherence to company core values

Physical and Cognitive Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate clearly, move, and remain in a stationary position. The employee must occasionally transport and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must regularly be able to detect, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, inspect, estimate, observe, and assess items, information, and objects in an office or remote office setting; or restaurant environment.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.