Job Description

Stew Leonard’s, a family-owned and operated fresh food store founded in 1969, has locations in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Stew’s earned its nickname, the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” because of its country-fair atmosphere, with costumed characters and animated entertainment throughout the store that keep children entertained while parents shop.

Kitchen Team Leader
Full Time Hourly – $18.10 -22.00
depending on qualifications and experience
Must be at least 18 years and older

Team Leaders supervise, guide and motivate team members to deliver excellent customer service and the highest quality products. Team Leaders provide assistance to management in hiring and training new team members, updating management on team member performance and acts as a liaison between team members and upper management.

Your day-to-day:

• Answers team member questions, helps with team member problems, and oversees team member work for quality and guideline compliance
• Provides encouragement to team members, including communicating deadlines and goals
• Assists management with hiring process and new team member training
• Ensure production estimates are met and displays are full and merchandised, with appropriate signage
• Provides quality customer service, including interacting with customers, answering customer inquiries, and effectively handling customer complaints
• Participate in monthly, quarterly and yearly department inventories
• Other projects, as needed

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• At least one year experience with product knowledge
• Safely operate a choppers, ovens, fryers and all other equipment used in the day to day operation of the kitchen department
• Demonstrate safe knife handling skills
• Great customer service skills
• Good computer skills and a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook, the HRIS, Great Plains (PO system), Interscale, and Item Maintenance
• Good organizational skills
• The ability to delegate tasks and communicate directions clearly
• The ability to multi-task

What you bring to the team:

• Lead by example
• Excellent work ethic
• Excellent interpersonal skill
• Honest
• The ability to problem solver
• Firm, but fair
• Flexible

Working Conditions:

• The temperature in the department can be warmer than room temperature due to the ovens, fryers and other equipment used in department production
• Exposure to different weather conditions may be possible when the seasonal grill is in operation (April to October)
• Exposure to smoke produced by grills and grease and oil from fryers may be possible
• The position requires frequent walking, standing, lifting, pushing, pulling, squatting, and reach is required with a maximum of 50lbs.

Why you’ll love working here!
Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.
Benefits: High value, high quality Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401 K plan for FT & PT team members, family & personal time, life insurance, short term disability insurance, legal insurance, sick time off, profit sharing, commuter assistance, Annual performance reviews.
Environment: Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?
Pay Day: We’re thrilled to offer our Team Members Sunday premium pay, Holiday pay, Dayforce Wallet – a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you – It’s your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.
We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities which we live and do business
Apply today and start as soon as 1 week!
For more information on working at Stew Leonard’s click on the link below!
http://www.stewleonards.com/work-at-stews/

Stew Leonard's is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.