Deli Shift Lead
Company: Yoke's Fresh Market
Location: Cheney
Posted on: March 10, 2025
Job Description:
Deli Shift Lead
Cheney, WAWage Range: $17.75 to $20.00 - depending on experience
with provable hours or work sample Benefits:
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - 100% Company paid
- DailyPay - Employee's option to work and get paid today
- 401K - Company matching up to 4% (if elected)
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance (no deductible medical
option)
- Company paid Life Insurance for full time (30 hours)
- Voluntary Insurance Products
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Paid holidays
- Vacation Time
- Bereavement & Jury Duty pay
- Paid Sick & Safe Leave - Employees earn 1-hour sick leave for
every 40 hours worked
- Paid Family & Medical Leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Essence of PositionTo provide
guidance and empowerment to Deli associates, and model how to
actively engage guests, ensuring they receive unparalleled
hospitality and professional service. Shared Expectations for all
roles within our company include, but are not limited to the
following:
- Creating a welcoming atmosphere for everyone.
- Embracing Yoke's Core Values and Mission Statement as an
integral part of your contribution to our team.
- Promoting Yoke's sales and company growth by patronizing Yoke's
stores and representing our company in the community with a
positive message.
- Participating enthusiastically with genuine care for our shared
success, always remembering we are the owners of Yoke's. Tasks of
PositionThe following are core and essential responsibilities of
this position. Associates are responsible for completing any and
all duties assigned as required for the successful operation of our
business. All associates are required to perform their job duties
in a manner which upholds the integrity and honesty of our company.
- Reporting for assigned shifts on time, and on a regular basis,
capable of communicating clearly and demonstrating suitable
physical abilities to safety perform assigned tasks and duties,
prepared to provide excellent service and leadership.
- Promoting sales through active discussions with guests,
offering product recommendations, and discussing current promotions
and service information. (Examples may include: asking guests if
they need other products to accompany requested items, chatting
about Yoke's signature items, fresh board and sweet deal
suggestions, or providing information on recipes and
products).
- Performing managerial duties in the absence of the Deli Manager
and Asst. Deli Manager including but not limited to the following:
inventory, sales, and other bookwork.
- Merchandising existing products and new products by using size,
shape and color to compliment an area or item to help promote
increased sales.
- Directing, coordinating, and participating in preparing,
wrapping, serving, and packing types of food served or prepared by
the Deli Department while upholding the production and presentation
of fresh, quality deli products ensuring food meets company
specifications.
- Practicing Food Safety - Active Managerial Control for the Deli
Department by being proactive at finding and preventing food safety
risks, ensuring Associates are trained on food safety practices.
These practices include knowing personal health and illness
symptoms to report to the management, monitoring food temperatures
with thermometers, proper hand washing when required, using tongs
or other barriers with ready-to-eat food, cooking meat to proper
temperatures, washing produce before cutting, and preventing cross
contamination. Active Managerial Control requires management to
assure Associates follow food safety requirements by checking their
work and providing corrective action as needed.
- Providing in-service training to all new personnel as assigned
and ensuring they learn exceptional guest service, food safety,
special features and services offered by the Deli, and the proper
and safe operations (at minimum) of the following equipment:
slicer, deep fat fryer, ovens, wrapping station, cash register,
espresso machine, coffee machine, scales, thermometers, hot case,
rotisserie (where available) microwave, stove top grill (where
available) and any other equipment used in the Deli
Department.
- Empowering associates to use "This One's On Us" cards to "Make
Our Guests Crazy About Us!"
- Finding a way to make our guests happy.
- Ensuring all work performed in the department is completed in
accordance with all local, state, federal and company rules,
regulations, and policies regarding workplace safety, food handling
safety, sanitation/housekeeping standards, and guest services.
- Participating actively in the Deli Department's accident
reduction plan including: monitoring drains in sinks, combi-ovens,
fryers, hood traps, vent traps, and grills, cleaning floors of
spills immediately, and recognizing shelf order, safety features of
all machinery, store evacuation plan, robbery policy, health codes
for sanitizers, case temperatures, gloves, ice scoop, sink
regulations, and storing regulations.
Supervisory Responsibilities This position has supervisory
responsibilities, and though many positions in our company are not
supervisory, the following quote exemplifies our belief in
leadership for all associates:"Whether you are the president of a
company or the janitor, the moment you step from independence into
interdependence in any capacity, you step into a leadership role.
You are in a position of influencing other people." - Stephen
Covey
This position's supervisory responsibilities include, but may not
be limited to the following:
- Supervising, coordinating, and evaluating the activities of
associates on assigned shift in the Deli Department by performing
all duties personally, or through secondary personnel.
- Performing supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the
organization's policies and applicable laws including training,
assigning and directing work, addressing complaints, and resolving
problems.
- Possessing and displaying excellent leadership and
communication skills in handling associate matters.
- Enforcing company policies.
QualificationsTo perform this job successfully, an individual must
be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge,
skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions.
- Education and/or ExperienceHigh School diploma or GED; or a
minimum of two years related experience and/or training; or
equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Language SkillsReads and comprehends simple instructions, short
correspondence and memos. Writes simple correspondence.
Communicates effectively and pleasantly with guests, vendors and
fellow associates at all times.
- Mathematical SkillsPerforms mathematical skills using units of
American money and weight measurement, volume.
- Reasoning AbilityApplies common sense understanding to carry
out instructions furnished in written or oral form. Manages
problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations.
- Other QualificationsMeets the state minimum requirement to work
with slicers or other Deli equipment and tools.
- Certificates & LicensesValid State Food Handlers PermitValid
Driver's License or State I.D. Card
- Yoke's Provided Training Active ShooterDeli Skills Training
levels One, Two, and ThreeFood Handler's Safety TrainingHarassment
TrainingHIPAA TrainingLate Night Retail Safety TrainingShoplift
PreventionYoke's Safety Orientation Training / Active ShooterYoke's
Guest Service Training & Commitment(Optional: Hepatitis A
vaccination provided by Yoke's Pharmacy) Physical Demands & Safety
ExpectationsMost positions within Yoke's require physical effort to
varying degrees. As such, associates are expected to be mindful of
practicing Yoke's safety standards at all times. This may include
using personal protective equipment when and where required,
understanding ergonomic safety, chemical hazards, safe lifting
techniques, lockout/tag out procedures, and emergency protocol. All
associates are required to report accidents within 24 hours. No
associate may pose a direct threat to the health and safety of self
or others by willfully engaging in unsafe behaviors. The physical
demands listed below are representative of those that must be met
by you to successfully perform the essential functions of this
position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, you are regularly required
to stand for prolonged periods of time, walk, use hands, fingers,
handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop,
kneel, crouch, crawl, taste, smell, talk, and hear. Associate must
continuously lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift
and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up
to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job
include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral
vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Work
EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are
representative of those you may encounter while performing the
essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
essential functions. While performing the duties of this position,
the associate is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts,
occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or
caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level
in the work environment is usually moderate. 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 associate may be required to perform. The
Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any
time and to require associates to perform other tasks as
circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive
considerations, or the work environment change.
Position InformationCompany: Yoke's Fresh MarketsPosition: Deli
Shift LeadStatus: Full TimeShift: First (Day), Second
(Afternoon)Req #: 10485924Date Posted: March 04, 2025Location: 4
Cheney Spokane Rd., Cheney,
US,
WA,
99004
Job Category: Deli
Keywords: Yoke's Fresh Market, Spokane , Deli Shift Lead, Hospitality & Tourism , Cheney, Washington
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