About this role
About Us: Northgate Gonzalez Market has grown from one store in Anaheim in 1980 to over 40 locations across Southern California, and we're looking for passionate, customer-focused team members to join our family. We offer flexible schedules, opportunities for growth, and an associate discount of up to 20% for you and your household—all in a positive and fun work environment where you'll feel valued and appreciated. If you're enthusiastic, team-oriented, and ready to build a career with us, we'd love to meet you.To learn more, please visitwww.northgatemarkets.com
JOB SUMMARY: The Commissary Team Leads Assists Commissary clerks to identify, manage, and execute the daily commissary's production. The Commissary Team Leads oversees the staff on the production floor to attain production and quality goals. Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues. Ensures commissary resources including materials, equipment and human capital are available as needed to maintain production schedules. Supports continuous improvement goals in productivity, safety, quality, and cost.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Maintain high productivity and cost effectiveness by balancing quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas.
• Develop staff and promote ongoing skills development.
• Promote a safe working environment at all times.
• Oversee and distribute work to teams.
• Act as communications hub for the team, disseminating pertinent and timely information.
• Maintain and boost commissary efficiency, initiate and suggests and helps to implement continuous improvement projects, train new and existing team members, and works with Commissary management to implement new processes.
• Assist in performing hands-on production and assembly functions.
• Assume responsibility for quality output on the commissary floor.
• Report any quality issues to the produce department.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Assist in ordering raw material and maintain inventory control to minimize product spoilage.
• Observe the norms of hygiene, health and safety in the work areas; clean all food preparation areas, surfaces and tools; maintain general housekeeping and sanitation standards in compliance with policy and state and local health regulations on a regular, ongoing basis.
• Use and maintain equipment in good working order.
Collaborate with coworkers to ensure that the department positively contributes to the financial interest of the company; maintain good communications in the department and throughout the organization; assist in training associates when requested or directed to do so.
• Monitors raw material and packaging inventories to ensure adequate supply and freshness (rotation) to support production requirements.
• Teamwork, communication, organization, and leadership skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and effectively manage through change
• Notify Commissary manager of personnel situations or policy violations having an adverse effect on store operating performance or of situations requiring disciplinary action or that may potentially require such action.
• Help with month-end inventory.
• Perform any other work-related duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS AND CONDITIONS:
Education/Experience
• Experience in a food processing environment.
• Experience in the preparation of food preferred.
Certificates/Licenses/Registrations
• Food Safety certificate.
Skills Required
• Demonstrated experience in food production operations, supervision of hourly staff and related areas of expertise.
• Food manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and large group of individuals effectively.
• Strong interpersonal verbal communication skills required.
• Basic math skills and ability to read and interpret basic spreadsheets.
• Ability to deal with last minute changes to commissary production schedule.
• Team player with a positive, helpful attitude. Must be able to coach others effectively and influence positive change in a team environment.
• Self-starter and proven ability to work independently with minimum supervision. Eager to take responsibility for results while reliably showing good judgment, initiative, and resourcefulness.
• Ability to work under pressure and under tight deadlines while demonstrating a calm and thoughtful demeanor.
• Fluent in Spanish
Physical Demands and Work Conditions
The physical demands and work conditions described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Some requirements may be modified to accommodate individuals with disabilities:
• The work environment includes occasional exposure to low temperatures in refrigerated storage areas.
• The employee must occasionally exert or lift up to 50 pounds carrying bulk containers of food and beverage products and frequently exert or lift negligible amounts of weight
• Successful performance requires vision abilities that include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Have sufficient physical mobility or agility to be able to respond quickly to fire or other emergencies such as cleanup requests due to accidental spills or breakage of glass.
• Be able to work with fresh, fruits, and vegetables without negative allergic consequences that affect performance.
• The employee is sometimes exposed to water and water vapor.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE
The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business or the work environment change.