Transitional Team Member, Mac's Deli

The Transitional Team Member, Mac’s Deli is a part-time, fast-paced transitional restaurant job role, designed for Haymarket Center clients with professional interest in hospitality, culinary, and restaurant management career paths. The role provides up to 90 days of paid, transitional employment, up to 20 hours per week, and is designed to help program participants build job skills, professional habits, confidence, accountability, and work experience in preparation for permanent, competitive part-time or full-time employment in the community. The Transitional Team Member, Mac’s Deli is a physically demanding part-time position that requires employees to be able to bend, walk, kneel, stand, and lift up to 50 pounds frequently. Duties may change throughout a shift based on business needs. Participants may work front of house, back of house, prep, cleaning, stocking, dishwashing, customer service, or any other assigned task necessary to support restaurant operations.

Transitional Team Member, Mac’s Deli is responsible for:

- Preparing food according to Mac’s Deli standards, recipes, build sheets, and portion guidelines (Chicago-style hot dogs, sandwiches, burgers, salads, sides, and other menu items).

- Operating restaurant equipment, including grills, fryers, steam tables, warmers, slicers, coolers, freezers, dish machines, and point-of-sale equipment when assigned.

- Cleaning and maintaining equipment, including fryers, grills, prep tables, counters, storage areas, dining areas, and workstations.

- Washing dishes, sanitizing surfaces, removing trash, sweeping, mopping, and completing assigned cleaning duties.

- Stocking products, rotating inventory, receiving deliveries, organizing storage areas, and assisting with prep lists.

- Serving customers professionally and maintaining a respectful, clean, and welcoming environment.

- Working quickly and accurately during busy periods while maintaining food safety, quality, cleanliness, and customer service standards.

- Assisting coworkers and completing any task assigned by management to support the operation of the deli.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This position requires heavy restaurant work. Transitional Team Members, Mac’s Deli must be able to:

- Stand and walk for entire work shifts.

- Lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 pounds.

- Bend, reach, squat, twist, and perform repetitive movements.

- Work around hot grills, fryers, steam, sharp tools, wet floors, cleaning chemicals, refrigeration,

- and kitchen equipment.

- Maintain speed, focus, and safety in a fast-paced environment.

- Complete cleaning and sanitation tasks, including physically demanding kitchen and equipment

- cleaning.
Requirements

- Be an active Haymarket client and successfully complete required program prerequisites, including IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program).

- High School Diploma, GED, or HiSET required.

- Submit a completed Mac’s Deli employment application and current résumé.

- Provide required employment eligibility documentation (State ID, Social Security Card, etc.)

- Successfully complete the interview process.

- Complete orientation, Food Handler Certification, and ServSafe Certification.

- Be willing to follow program rules, workplace expectations, and Mac’s Deli standards.