Doordashusa
Kitchen Manager, DashMart
Newport News, VA
Sponsorship not specified$56k-$83kDetected 6 days ago
ExcelLogisticsInventory ManagementLeadershipMentoringFood Safety
About the role
- You'll combine hands-on culinary leadership with operational excellence - managing staffing, scheduling, and kitchen performance while ensuring food safety, order accuracy, and team success.
- In addition to leading the kitchen, you'll be cross trained into DashMart operations and expected to work on both sides of the business.
- This role requires strict adherence to food safety, inventory controls, and safety protocols due to routine access to food, supplies, equipment, and operational systems.
Responsibilities
- To achieve your performance targets, you'll drive success through effective scheduling and by ensuring par levels are met, recipes are accurately executed, and best practices from across the network are deployed.
- You'll engage cross-functional partners as needed for support.
- You will analyze performance metrics, identify root causes of issues like prep gaps or order quality, and implement solutions that drive efficiency and adoption.
- You will refine processes, and partner with your Site Manager and cross-functional teams to execute new initiatives and continuously improve how the kitchen operates.
- You'll hire, coach and develop high-performing team members, while building a safety-first culture where employees are excited to drive success, personally and for the team.
- Strategizing: You will analyze performance metrics, identify root causes of issues like prep gaps or order quality, and implement solutions that drive efficiency and adoption.
- You will coach your team to maintain recipe accuracy, food safety, and storefront availability, knowing that consistency is key in a multi-concept kitchen.
- At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users-from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers.
- DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers.
Requirements
- Because this position supervises staff and is responsible for maintaining a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace, strong adherence to professional conduct and employee safety standards is required.
- You have 3+ years of experience in a medium/high-volume fast-casual or full-service restaurant environment.
- You have 1+ years of experience leading teams, including hiring, scheduling, coaching, and performance management.
Compensation
- Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week
- $56,200 - $82,700 USD
Benefits
- flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- Enjoy learning how different parts of a complex operation connect and are excited to collaborate cross-functionally
- DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
- To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
- See below for paid time off details:
Company info
- We're looking for someone to help scale DoorDash's next billion dollar business, DashMart, by growing our in-house food program, DashMart Kitchens.
- The DashMart Kitchens team is focused on building a new type of restaurant platform within DashMart, offering a broad selection of prepared foods and well-known restaurant staples to our customers' doorsteps.
Equal opportunity
- In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.
- Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on "protected categories," we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office.
- Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.
- We value a diverse workforce - people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
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