FOOD UNIT LEAD (PART TIME)

Compass Group

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Restaurant Associates, a leading provider of dining and event catering, is seeking a part-time Food Unit Lead. This role involves coordinating food-service employee activities, ensuring an enjoyable dining experience for customers, staff, and visitors. The Food Unit Lead will oversee and participate in food and beverage preparation and service, maintain company standards for presentation, sanitation, safety, and portion control, and help plan menus. The position also includes training employees, assigning work, managing daily reports, handling cash, ordering supplies, and ensuring overall facility sanitation and safety. The company, Compass Group, is committed to treating all applicants fairly and is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

Previous catering or banquet experience is required.
Abides by all Company policies and procedures including but not limited to: The use of a medium weight cut gloves when handling or using knives, peelers, choppers, mandolins or cleaning a slicer.
The use of oven mitts, fryer gloves or steamer gloves when handling hot pans from ovens, warmers or steamtables.
The use of slip-resistant shoes and proper lifting techniques.

Responsibilities

Provides quality customer service by providing one-on-one attention to detail.
Oversees and participates in the preparation and service of food and beverage items in accordance with company standards for presentation, sanitation, safety and portion control.
Helps plan menus.
Ensures timely, efficient meal service; supervises serving of meals.
Responds to customer complaints in person at the time of the complaint and via email for electronic complaints.
Trains employees; assigns and coordinates work of employees to promote efficiency and excellence in food and service.
Determines work procedures, prepares work schedules and expedites work flow.
Uses proper systems for completion of required daily/weekly/monthly reports such as inventory-cash reports-production records, payroll and time- keeping.
Responsible for proper cash handling as established by the Food Accounting Manual (deposits - petty cash - change funds).
Orders food and other necessary supplies from approved sources or purveyors.
Directs and participates in the overall sanitation and safety of the facility and employees in accordance with company standards and government regulations.
Develops sanitation schedule and ensures food-service employees adhere to the schedule for cleaning of kitchen and dining area and washing of kitchen utensils and equipment.
Issues written and oral instructions.
Help select and orient employees; oversees staff training in areas of responsibility.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Retirement Plan
Associate Shopping Program
Health and Wellness Programs
Discount Marketplace
Identity Theft Protection
Pet Insurance
Voluntary Benefits, including Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Legal Services, and Choice Auto and Home Program
Medical (for full-time positions)
Dental (for full-time positions)
Vision (for full-time positions)
Life Insurance/AD (for full-time positions)
Disability Insurance (for full-time positions)
Commuter Benefits (for full-time positions)
Employee Assistance Program (for full-time positions)
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) (for full-time positions)
Employee Referral Bonus