Operations Manager

Chick-fil-A | Bush River Road FSU
Columbia, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2024
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/20/2025

Chick-fil-A Bush River Road is seeking a full-time Operations Manager who is people focused, results driven, metrics oriented, and is ready to contribute to a culture of care.

Job Duties:

People & Culture

  • Always lead by example
  • Uphold restaurant & brand standards
  • Fully grasp and utilize metrics and systems in place
  • Embody restaurant’s core values
  • Build a culture of feedback, providing consistent, fair, and respectful coaching
  • Combine critical thinking and practical leadership with an eye towards constant innovation
  • Treat guests and team members with honor, dignity, and respect

Systems & Processes

  • Lead day-to-day operations, ensuring operational excellence and creating remarkable experiences
  • Identify, solve, and implement lasting solutions to operational bottlenecks
  • Follow opening & closing procedures using the correct back-office procedures and computer applications
  • Ensure wise stewardship of the facilities, product, and equipment
  • Uphold disciplinary system to ensure fairness across the entire organization
  • Effectively manage labor
  • Adhere to safety and security policies to protect team and store assets
  • Manage schedule to optimize productivity & guest experience
  • Consistently improving existing systems and training procedures

Reporting & Goal Setting

  • Firm grasp of store goals and labor report
  • Consistently push towards store targets for food safety, food cost, labor, guest experience scores, car count, hourly sales, check average, training and retention.
  • Review P&L each month to look for errors and areas of opportunities
  • Monthly inventory & EOM procedures

Experience/Educational Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher, or 5 years of management experience
  • Experience training & developing leaders
  • 30 Day training period if no prior CFA experience

Characteristics of Ideal Applicant

  • Curious, self-motivated and consistently pursues self-development
  • Commitment to personal & professional integrity
  • Resourceful, organized, detail oriented
  • Calculated decision maker who excels in time management
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Adept in the use of technology including but not limited to all Microsoft and Google Suite applications and Apple products


REQUIREMENTS

  • Open Availability Monday-Saturday
  • Bachelor's degree or higher, or 5 years of management experience


Chick-fil-A, Inc., Founder S. Truett Cathy started the business in 1946, when he and his brother, Ben, opened an Atlanta diner known as The Dwarf Grill (later renamed The Dwarf House®). Through the years, that restaurant prospered and led Cathy to further the success of his business. In 1967, Cathy founded and opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta's Greenbriar Shopping Center. Today, Chick-fil-A has the highest same-store sales and is the largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the United States based on annual system-wide sales. Today, Chick-fil-A is America's #1 fast food restaurant.

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