Playa Vista Kitchen Team Lead

HomeState Hospitalities•Los Angeles, CA

42d•Onsite

About The Position

HomeState is a Tex Mex Kitchen in Southern California serving tacos, queso, brisket, and margaritas with a focus on hospitality. The company culture emphasizes serving each other and providing warm hospitality that makes everyone feel at home. The core values are SHINE: Service, Hospitality, Intentionality, Nurturing, and Excellence. Team Leads are responsible for maintaining standards, elevating whenever possible, and leading by example. They are charged with ensuring a safe and healthy working environment, assisting with ordering and receiving products, and may be responsible for opening or closing shifts. Team Leads are not responsible for hiring, scheduling, or disciplinary actions.

Requirements

Mastery of all core competencies for Kitchen Team Member role.
Resourcefulness: Secure and deploy resources (such as people, time, equipment, materials, and support) effectively and efficiently. Adapt quickly to changing resource requirements. Bring ideas for areas of improvement to management.
Influential: Inspire team members to gain their support and commitment. Empower and lead by example.
Personable and enjoys working with people and a diverse team.
Valid Food Handlers Certification Card (or be able to take a company provided course within 30 days of hire).
Availability to work a minimum of five days per week.
Extended hours and/or a sixth day may occasionally be required.
Weekends, day shifts and evening shifts may be required.

Nice To Haves

1-2 years experience in a professional restaurant kitchen is preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain the standards and elevate whenever possible using compelling arguments to find common ground that satisfy the needs of many with maintaining collaborative approach.
Adapt in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
Change training or communication delivery for different types of learners.
Observe situational and group dynamics to select best approach for a successful shift.
Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, transparency and authenticity.
Honor commitments & practice professional discretion.
Follow all HomeState standards, sanitation guidelines, policies or procedures to ensure that you are serving guests the highest quality, delivering caring hospitality, and that you are embodying the HomeState mission and core values.
Maintain regular, predictable attendance, which includes attendance at all scheduled shifts, training and meetings.
Ensure common areas and kitchen areas are clean, organized and appealing to guests.
Take pride in your work each day to make things a little better than they were yesterday.
Serve as an ambassador, both internally and externally in the community.
Lead on Duty: responsible for leading and training in collaboration with management.
Maintain standards and ensure a safe, healthy working environment.
Assisting ordering and receiving products.
Opening or closing the shift which includes monitoring attendance, breaks, shift reports, waste log, restaurant emails, reporting performance issues, inventory count, or other non-supervisory tasks as assigned by Management or outlined in the administrative duties matrix.