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Shift Leader
Culver Franchising SystemDawsonville, GA, US, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Oct 2025
About the role
JOB SUMMARY
Runs shifts efficiently and continually motivates team members to ensure that every guest who chooses Culver’s® leaves happy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Runs shifts effectively to ensure quality products, guest service and restaurant cleanliness meet Culver’s standards.
- Demonstrates proper product quality control, presentation and hold times.
- Reviews daily deployment sheet and adjusts to ensure team efficiency while maintaining labor costs.
- Performs restaurant opening and closing procedures effectively.
- Routinely monitors and coaches team on safety best practices related to the Culver’s hazard communication program and workplace safety.
- Demonstrates proficiency on all restaurants positions.
- Trains team effectively on all restaurant positions.
- Empowers team to handle guest comments “the Culver’s way.”
- Ensures team is knowledgeable concerning products and guest service.
- Demonstrates and ensures team is following the standards of uniforms and appearance.
- Ensures proper follow up of visitation and full field reports, including but not limited to cleanliness, hospitality, and ground appearance.
- Administers team member breaks according to federal and state legal requirements.
- Assists team members with mis-punches, voids, discounts, and other managerial POS
- Performs daily morning, afternoon and evening restaurant tours effectively.
- Runs financial report, counts afternoon drawers, enters drawer pickups and completes daily deposits.
- Accesses financial information and completes weekly sales and labor during their shift.
- Monitors daily inventory levels to ensure adequate supply for shift based on current restaurant sales.
- Ensures shelf life, First In-First Out method of inventory rotation and tempering sheet is maintained accurately.
- Ensures the accurate completion of the Quality Control/Safe Food Checklist.
- Ensures team practices proper personal hygiene and demonstrates food safety practices.
- Assigns and follows up on weekly and monthly “odd jobs” to team.
- Demonstrates positive and effective role modeling for all team members through appearance and attitude
- Attends all manager and team member meetings.
- Follows restaurant policies and procedures consistently.
- Ensures proper product waste documenting on every shift.
- Uses radiant for cash counting procedures.
- Runs daily POS labor reports.
QUALIFICATIONS
- EDUCATION: College graduate with a degree in hotel and restaurant management or equivalent experience. Certified from a national food safety program.
- EXPERIENCE: Demonstrates leadership skills. Certified in-store trainer in all areas.
- CHARACTERISTICS: Have the ability to effectively organize work, communicate well and is management oriented. Demonstrates an energetic, positive attitude that is contagious.
- COMPENSATION: Salary is commensurate with person’s qualifications and will reflect present market for a position of similar responsibilities.
PHYSICAL ABILITIES
- Stand Constantly
- Walk Constantly
- Sit Occasionally
- Handling Constantly
- Lift / carry 10 lbs or less Constantly
- Lift / carry 11-20 lbs Constantly
- Lift / carry 21-50 lbs Frequently
- Lift / carry 51-100 lbs Occasionally
MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP SUCCESS FACTORS
- COMMUNICATION: Verbal, written, presentations to others; communication up – same level – direct reports; inclusive, honest, direct, timely; clear, concise; confronts the brutal facts; delivers ideas for solutions with problems.
- CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Taking initiative, supportive of change; reacts quickly and appropriate; sets a good example as a role model in accepting change, executing change initiatives and following through to insure changes are effective.
- DECISION MAKING & PROBLEM SOLVING: Uses judgment, common sense and sensitivity in addressing issues; gathers appropriate information and seeks input from cross functional team members; collaborates with others to insure that decisions are made with consideration for impact on others; makes timely and fair decisions; able to make tough decisions when necessary.
- INNOVATION, CREATIVITY & VISION: Seeks new ways to improve efficiency, effectiveness, quality; achieves extra-ordinary results with ordinary resources.
- PLANNING (short and long term): Organized and able to establish priorities, required resources; delivers the desired results; manages multiple deadlines and priorities; insures that planning involves cros
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