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Department Manager

TexasOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Department Manager
  • Shift Management
  • Customer Experience
  • Sales Promotions
  • Training
  • Food Safety
  • Inventory Management
  • Scheduling
  • Quality Food
  • Food Cost Control

Nice to have

  • Managerial Experience
  • Restaurant Experience
  • Retail Experience
  • Hospitality Experience
  • Team Player
  • Flexible Schedule

Role summary

This role is for a Department Manager at a franchisee-owned McDonald's restaurant. The manager will lead shifts, ensure excellent customer service, and oversee specific departments such as Guest Service, Kitchen, or People. Responsibilities include managing systems like training, food safety, and inventory, setting goals, delegating tasks, and reporting results. The People Department Manager focuses on hiring, training, and scheduling qualified crew to meet business goals, ensuring a positive and motivating work environment. Previous managerial experience in restaurant, retail, or hospitality is preferred. The role requires strong leadership, people management, and operational skills within a fast-paced environment.

This job posting is for a position in a restaurant owned and operated by an independent franchisee and not McDonald’s USA. This franchisee owns a license to use McDonald’s logos and food products, for example, when running the restaurant. However, this franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from McDonald’s USA. If you are hired for the job described in this posting, the franchisee will be your employer, not McDonald’s USA. Only the franchisee is responsible for employment matters at the restaurant, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervisions, staffing, and scheduling employees. McDonald’s USA has no control over employment matters at the restaurant. McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of your employment application and it will have no involvement in any employment decisions, including whether you receive an interview for the job or whether you are hired.

Description:

McDonald's Works for Me.

I’m going places. I want a satisfying career with good benefits and great opportunities for advancement. I have a lot to offer and I want to grow.

The Job for Me – Get a job that inspires your best and moves you forward. Choose your hours. Pursue your education. Build your skills and be yourself.

The Team for Me – Our people want to say YES — to working with energy and purpose, finding new talent, providing coaching and direction, honing their leadership skills, and helping to run a business that serves up delicious food and feel-good moments. Does this sound like you? You’ll fit right in.

The Company for Me – From here, you can go further than you thought possible. Reach your goals and build your future with college tuition assistance, valuable job training, and retirement benefits.

Let’s talk. Make your move.

Requirements:

Managers lead shifts every week, making sure customers get a fast, accurate, friendly experience every visit. But some managers also lead Departments. These managers’ responsibilities may include managing assigned Systems, like Training, Food Safety, and Inventory Management, setting goals, delegating tasks to their teams, following up, and reporting results back to their team and other managers.

The Guest Service Department Manager’s responsibilities may include making sure Crew and Managers deliver a great customer experience, that sales promotions are done well, that all service staff are trained in service procedures, and that the Front Counter McCafé and Drive-Thru areas are organized for the best service.

The Kitchen Department Manager’s responsibilities may include making sure the restaurant delivers great quality food to customers, and fast, that food is always safe, that food cost is controlled, and that all kitchen staff are trained in production procedures, including new items that are added to the menu.

The People Department Manager’s responsibilities may include making sure the restaurant hires qualified crew, trains them well, and schedules them to meet restaurant sales and profit goals. This manager’s responsibilities may also include making sure Crew get off to a good start at the restaurant and that they are recognized and motivated throughout their time working there.

Previous managerial experience is preferred, ideally within a restaurant, retail or hospitality environment. We’re looking for positive team players with flexible schedules who like to have fun, with the passion to work the famously fast paced McDonald’s environment. You must be 18 years or older to be a manager in our corporate owned and operated restaurants.

Additional Info:

Along with competitive pay, a Department Manager at a McDonald's Corporate owned store is eligible for incredible benefits including:

• 15-25 days paid vacation

• 10 paid holidays, anniversary splash and 8-week sabbatical every 10 years

• Education through Archways to Opportunity including opportunities to earn a High School degree, college tuition assistance and English classes as a second language

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts

• Short- and Long-Term Disability, life and accident insurance

• Paid Leaves of Absence

• Service awards

• Employee Resource Connection

• Adoption Assistance

• Matching gifts program

This job posting contains some information about what it is like to work in a McDonald’s restaurant, but it is not a complete job description. People who work in a McDonald’s restaurant perform a number of different tasks every day, and this posting does not list all of the essential functions of this job.

By applying to this position, I understand that I am applying to work at a restaurant that is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, not McDonald’s USA. I understand that this franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from McDonald’s USA. Any information I provide in this application will be submitted only to the independent franchisee, who is the only company responsible for employment matters at this restaurant. I recognize that the independent franchisee alone will make all decisions concerning employment matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling. By applying for a job at a franchisee operated restaurant, I understand that the information I provide will be forwarded to the franchisee organization in order for that organization to reach out to me and process and evaluate my application. I acknowledge that McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of my employment application and will have no involvement in any employment decisions regarding me, including whether I receive an interview or whether I am hired to work for the franchisee. I understand that I need to contact the franchise organization for information about its privacy practices.

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