Kitchen Inventory Team Leader

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) is a family business based in Tyler, Texas, and currently operates more than 209 stores in four states – Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma – with three distribution centers and a corporate office. BGC prides itself on offering its partners one of the most comprehensive benefits packages in the industry which includes medical, prescription drug, vision, dental, paid time off, stock ownership, a 401k retirement plan, incentive plans, employee discounts, educational scholarships, and access to BGC’s 205-acre outdoor recreation area.

Job Summary

Maintains stock levels and product quality by monitoring dates, appearance, and storage temperature controls. Works with management to review loss, sales, and shrink. Helps with kitchen production tasks as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports upper management with the review of historical data regarding sales, ads and promotions. Co-manages inventory using item management processes to ensure satisfactory in-stock levels. May review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with department manager.
• Orders, receives, organizes, and stocks inventory in back rooms and coolers for kitchen. Works with chefs and other team leaders to ensure maintenance of stock levels.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives and appealing product displays.
• Researches and sources products for new and existing recipes.
• Ensures prices remain accurate in the system. Notifies management of needed changes.
• Reviews invoices from vendors to ensure accuracy and process through system.
• Works with catering personnel and meets regularly to ensure ordering needs are met.
• Enforces quality control and food safety standards and ensures dated products are stocked and rotated properly. Makes fine judgements about aroma, flavor, taste, texture, and color to inspect product for quality.
• Assists kitchen personnel with cooking, slicing, weighing, packaging, labeling, pricing, and maintaining product displays.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares machinery and equipment for operation, and examines to ensure proper function. Operates machinery, regulates speed, and stops machinery at precise points indicated.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
• Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.
• Provides friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking special order requests by phone and in person.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Basic mathematical skills for the purpose of following recipes.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a cheese/meat slicer, commercial oven, etc.
• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.
• Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.
• Ability to use precision and non-precision hand tools.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate (in written and verbal form) with partners and customers.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and one or more years of related experience required.
• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• Food Handler certificati