Shift Manager

McDonald's

Bayonne (NJ)

On-site

USD 15,000 - 25,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Vacation after 5 years
Vacation after 8 years
Archways education program
Medical coverage
Training programs
Service awards

Job summary

McDonald’s is hiring a Shift Manager to lead crew and other managers during shifts, ensuring fast, accurate, and friendly service. You’ll monitor performance, safety, and profitability, and help your team meet goals.

We value leadership with experience in fast-paced environments. The role offers flexible hours, development opportunities, and comprehensive benefits as part of our franchisee-operated restaurant network.

Qualifications

  • Previous leadership experience is preferred.
  • Flexible schedule and ability to work shifts.
  • Must be 18 years or older to manage owner-operated restaurants.

Responsibilities

  • Lead weekly shifts and ensure fast, accurate, friendly service.
  • Monitor shift performance, safety, and profitability.
  • Plan each shift, communicate with the next Shift Manager.
  • Manage food safety, internal communication, and cleanliness.
  • Oversee crew, quality of food production, and customer service.
  • Ensure safety and security, and provide training to staff.

Skills

Leadership
Team management
Food safety
Inventory management
Customer service
Training

Job description

This job posting is for a position in a restaurant owned and operated by an independent franchisee and not McDonald’s USA. This franchisee owns a license to use McDonald’s logos and food products, for example, when running the restaurant. However, this franchisee is a separate company and employer from McDonald’s USA. If you are hired for the job described in this posting, the franchisee will be your employer, not McDonald’s USA. Only the franchisee is responsible for employment matters at the restaurant, including hiring, firing, disciplining, supervising, staffing, and scheduling employees. McDonald’s USA has no control over employment matters at the restaurant. McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of your employment application. It will have no involvement in any employment decisions, including whether you receive an interview for the job or are hired.

We are hiring up to $18.00
Description

McDonald's Works for Me.

I’m going places. I want a satisfying career with good benefits and great opportunities for advancement. I have a lot to offer, and I want to grow.

The Job for Me – Get a job that inspires your best and moves you forward. Choose your hours. Pursue your education. Build your skills and be yourself.

The Team for Me – Our people want to say YES — to working with energy and purpose, finding new talent, providing coaching and direction, honing their leadership skills, and helping run a business serving delicious food and feel-good moments. Does this sound like you? You’ll fit right in.

The Company for Me – From here, you can go further than you thought possible. Reach your goals and build your future with college tuition assistance, valuable job training, and retirement benefits.

Requirements

Managers lead weekly shifts, ensuring customers get a fast, accurate, friendly experience every visit. A Shift Manager provides leadership to crew and other managers during a shift to ensure excellent customer Quality, Service, and Cleanliness.

Shift Managers perform a variety of tasks, which may include planning for each shift, monitoring performance during the shift, taking action to ensure the team is meeting McDonald’s standards, monitoring safety, security, and profitability, and communicating with the next Shift Manager to help prepare them to run a significant shift, too. Shift Managers may also be responsible for meeting targets during their shifts and helping their assigned Departments meet their goals.

As a Shift Manager, you may be responsible for the following:

  • Food Safety
  • Internal Communication
  • Inventory Management
  • Daily Maintenance and Cleanliness
  • Managing Crew
  • Quality Food Production
  • Exceptional Customer Service
  • Safety and Security
  • Training

Previous leadership experience is preferred, ideally within a restaurant, retail, or hospitality environment. We’re looking for positive team players with a flexible schedule who like to have fun with a passion for working in the famously fast paced McDonald’s environment. You must be 18 years or older to manage our owner-operated restaurants.

Additional Info

Along with competitive pay, a Shift Manager is eligible for incredible benefits, including:

  • one week paid vacation after five years of employment
  • two weeks paid vacation after eight years
  • Education through Archways to Opportunity, including opportunities to earn a High School degree, college tuition assistance, and English classes as a second language
  • Ongoing training within the McDonald's curriculum to further your growth with us
  • Medical coverage
  • Service awards

This job posting contains some information about working in a McDonald’s restaurant, but it is not a complete job description. People who work in a McDonald’s restaurant perform many different tasks every day, and this posting does not list all of the essential functions of this job.

By applying to this position, I understand I am applying to work at a restaurant owned and operated by an independent franchisee, not McDonald’s USA. This franchisee is a separate company and employer from McDonald’s USA. Any information I provide in this application will be submitted only to the independent franchisee, the only company responsible for employment matters at this restaurant. I recognize that the independent franchisee alone will make all decisions concerning employment matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing, and scheduling. By applying for a job at a franchisee-operated restaurant, I understand that the information I provide will be forwarded to the franchisee organization so that the organization can reach out to me and process and evaluate my application. I acknowledge that McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of my employment application and will have no involvement in any employment decisions regarding me, including whether I receive an interview or am hired to work for the franchisee. I understand I need to contact the franchise organization for information about its privacy practices.

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