The Gas Station Store Manager is responsible for the overall operation, profitability, safety, cleanliness, staffing, and customer-service performance of the assigned gas station and convenience store.
The Store Manager oversees daily retail, fuel, food service, lottery, cash-handling, inventory, merchandising, and employee-management activities. This position is responsible for ensuring that the store operates in compliance with company policies, fuel-brand standards, food-safety requirements, age-restricted sales laws, and all applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
The Store Manager is expected to lead by example, maintain a professional and customer-focused environment, control expenses and inventory losses, develop employees, and meet established sales and profitability goals.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesStore Operations
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Direct and oversee all daily gas station, convenience-store, and food-service operations.
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Ensure the store opens, operates, and closes according to the approved schedule.
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Maintain appropriate employee coverage during all operating hours.
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Complete and verify daily, weekly, and monthly operational checklists.
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Ensure the sales floor, fuel pumps, restrooms, parking lot, food-service areas, coolers, stockrooms, and exterior areas remain clean, organized, safe, and properly maintained.
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Monitor store conditions throughout the day and address operational issues promptly.
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Ensure products are properly stocked, priced, rotated, labeled, and displayed.
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Maintain compliance with fuel-brand image, signage, promotional, and merchandising requirements.
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Communicate company policies, operational changes, promotions, and performance expectations to employees.
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Respond to emergencies, equipment failures, staffing shortages, customer incidents, and security concerns.
Employee Leadership and Scheduling
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Recruit, interview, select, onboard, train, supervise, coach, and evaluate store employees.
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Prepare and maintain employee schedules based on projected sales, customer traffic, labor budgets, and business needs.
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Ensure shifts are adequately staffed while controlling overtime and unnecessary labor expenses.
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Review employee time records and verify that hours worked are accurate.
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Monitor attendance, punctuality, uniform compliance, customer service, productivity, and job performance.
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Assign daily tasks and ensure employees complete opening, shift-change, cleaning, stocking, and closing responsibilities.
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Conduct employee meetings and provide ongoing training.
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Address employee concerns, conflicts, performance issues, and policy violations professionally.
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Document coaching, counseling, disciplinary actions, accidents, and other employee-related matters.
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Promote a respectful, professional, and team-oriented work environment.
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Identify employees with leadership potential and provide development opportunities.
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Follow company procedures and applicable laws related to hiring, scheduling, discipline, leave, and termination.
Customer Service
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Ensure customers receive prompt, courteous, accurate, and professional service.
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Greet customers and assist with product, fuel, food, lottery, and store-related questions.
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Investigate and resolve customer complaints in a timely and respectful manner.
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Establish clear customer-service expectations for all employees.
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Monitor checkout lines, service times, store appearance, and employee interactions.
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Build positive relationships with regular customers and the surrounding community.
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Report serious customer incidents, threats, injuries, or claims to the appropriate company representative.
Cash Management and Financial Controls
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Safeguard cash, checks, money orders, lottery funds, gift cards, fuel receipts, and other store assets.
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Verify cash-register tills, safe balances, deposits, paid-outs, refunds, voids, discounts, and other financial transactions.
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Prepare or supervise daily bank deposits according to company procedures.
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Ensure deposits are accurate, properly documented, secured, and delivered on time.
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Review daily sales reports and investigate cash shortages, overages, and unusual transactions.
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Maintain strict control over safe access, register access, keys, alarm codes, and other security information.
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Ensure employees comply with register-assignment and cash-handling requirements.
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Review fuel, merchandise, lottery, food-service, and other departmental sales activity.
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Monitor controllable expenses, labor costs, gross profit, food waste, inventory shrinkage, and store profitability.
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Submit invoices, receipts, reports, and supporting documents to the accounting department as required.
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Cooperate with audits, reconciliations, inventory reviews, and financial investigations.
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Never borrow, exchange, or permit unauthorized use of store funds.
Fuel Operations
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Monitor fuel inventory levels, fuel deliveries, pump operations, and pricing.
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Verify fuel deliveries and ensure quantities and product grades are correct.
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Maintain required fuel-delivery, tank, inspection, and environmental records.
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Inspect fuel pumps, hoses, nozzles, emergency shutoffs, spill kits, and surrounding areas.
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Report leaks, spills, water intrusion, damaged equipment, or suspected environmental concerns immediately.
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Ensure fuel prices displayed on pumps, signs, and the point-of-sale system are accurate.
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Respond appropriately to drive-offs, payment disputes, pump malfunctions, and customer concerns.
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Ensure employees understand emergency fuel-shutoff and spill-response procedures.
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Follow all applicable underground-storage-tank, environmental, fire-safety, and fuel-handling requirements.
Inventory Management and Loss Prevention
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Order merchandise, food, beverages, tobacco products, supplies, and other inventory based on sales history and established inventory targets.
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Maintain appropriate inventory levels without excessive overstocking.
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Receive deliveries and verify product quantities, prices, quality, and condition.
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Compare invoices, delivery documents, and received merchandise for accuracy.
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Ensure inventory is stored securely and rotated using the first-in, first-out method when applicable.
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Conduct or supervise cycle counts, category counts, and full physical inventories.
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Review inventory reports and investigate shortages, excessive waste, unusual adjustments, and negative margins.
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Reduce shrinkage caused by theft, damage, spoilage, administrative errors, improper receiving, and unauthorized discounts.
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Maintain control over high-risk products, including tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets, gift cards, and other restricted or high-value merchandise.
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Review camera footage and transaction records when authorized and necessary.
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Report suspected employee theft, vendor fraud, shoplifting, or other losses according to company procedures.
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Ensure back doors, storage areas, offices, safes, and restricted areas remain secured.
Vendor and Delivery Management
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Maintain professional relationships with approved vendors, fuel suppliers, delivery drivers, technicians, and service providers.
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Ensure vendors sign in and follow store security and receiving procedures.
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Supervise or verify merchandise and fuel deliveries.
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Resolve delivery discrepancies and damaged-product issues.
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Prevent unauthorized vendors from placing products, changing displays, or removing merchandise.
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Submit vendor invoices and credits accurately and on time.
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Notify company leadership of recurring vendor, pricing, product-quality, or delivery problems.
Food Service Operations
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Oversee food preparation, food quality, production levels, product availability, and food-service profitability.
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Ensure food-service employees follow approved recipes, portion standards, cooking procedures, and holding times.
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Monitor food temperatures and required safety logs.
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Ensure food is properly labeled, dated, stored, rotated, and discarded when expired.
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Maintain clean and sanitized food-preparation, service, storage, and equipment areas.
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Monitor food waste and adjust production levels based on customer demand.
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Ensure compliance with health-department and food-safety requirements.
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Maintain required food-manager or food-handler certifications.
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Correct food-safety violations immediately and report serious concerns to company leadership.
Lottery Operations
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Ensure lottery tickets, scratch-off tickets, and lottery funds are secured and properly controlled.
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Verify lottery deliveries, activations, settlements, inventory, and returns.
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Reconcile lottery sales and ticket inventory according to company procedures.
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Investigate missing tickets, shortages, or discrepancies promptly.
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Ensure lottery sales comply with age-verification and state lottery requirements.
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Limit lottery-system access to authorized employees.
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Ensure winning tickets are processed according to established payout limits and procedures.
Age-Restricted Products
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Ensure employees verify identification for tobacco, alcohol, lottery, and other age-restricted products.
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Train employees on approved identification, refusal-of-sale, and age-verification procedures.
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Monitor compliance through observation, register reports, and available company systems.
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Prevent sales to minors, visibly intoxicated individuals, or other prohibited customers.
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Maintain required licenses, permits, and compliance notices.
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Immediately report failed compliance checks, citations, or regulatory visits to company leadership.
Safety, Security, and Regulatory Compliance
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Maintain a safe environment for employees, customers, vendors, and visitors.
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Conduct routine safety inspections and promptly correct hazards.
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Ensure exits, electrical panels, fire extinguishers, emergency shutoffs, and safety equipment remain accessible.
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Follow and enforce robbery-prevention, shoplifting, workplace-violence, emergency, and incident-response procedures.
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Ensure employees do not chase suspected shoplifters or place themselves in unsafe situations.
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Respond appropriately to accidents, injuries, threats, fires, robberies, severe weather, fuel spills, and other emergencies.
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Complete incident and accident reports accurately and promptly.
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Preserve video footage, witness information, receipts, and other evidence when required.
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Cooperate with law enforcement, regulators, insurance representatives, and authorized company personnel.
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Ensure compliance with OSHA, health department, fire marshal, environmental, labor, licensing, and other regulatory requirements.
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Keep required licenses, permits, inspection reports, and employee notices current and properly displayed.
Facility and Equipment Maintenance
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Inspect the building, parking lot, canopy, fuel pumps, signage, coolers, freezers, restrooms, lighting, doors, locks, registers, kitchen equipment, and other store assets.
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Submit repair requests and follow up until issues are resolved.
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Place unsafe or malfunctioning equipment out of service when necessary.
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Coordinate with approved technicians and contractors.
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Verify that repairs and services have been completed properly before approving documentation.
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Maintain preventive-maintenance schedules and service records.
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Control keys, access cards, alarm codes, and equipment access.
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Notify company leadership before approving non-routine repairs or expenses beyond the manager’s authority.
Reporting and Communication
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Review daily, weekly, and monthly store-performance reports.
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Submit required sales, labor, inventory, incident, maintenance, deposit, and compliance reports.
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Communicate store performance, staffing concerns, operational risks, and major incidents to the District Manager, Regional Manager, or owner.
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Participate in management meetings, conference calls, inspections, audits, and training sessions.
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Maintain complete and organized store records.
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Protect confidential employee, customer, financial, and company information.
Supervisory Responsibilities
The Store Manager directly supervises assistant managers, shift leads, cashiers, food-service employees, stock employees, and other assigned personnel.
Supervisory responsibilities may include:
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Recruiting and interviewing applicants.
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Making hiring recommendations or decisions within assigned authority.
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Preparing employee schedules.
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Assigning and directing work.
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Training and coaching employees.
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Reviewing performance.
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Approving time records.
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Addressing complaints and resolving problems.
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Administering corrective action according to company policy.
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Recommending promotions, transfers, pay changes, and terminations.
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Ensuring compliance with company policies and employment laws.
Minimum Qualifications
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High school diploma or equivalent required.
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Associate or bachelor’s degree in business, retail management, or a related field preferred.
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At least two years of retail, convenience-store, restaurant, fuel, or customer-service experience preferred.
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At least one year of supervisory or management experience preferred.
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Experience with cash handling, employee scheduling, inventory management, and customer service.
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Ability to obtain and maintain required food-safety, alcohol, tobacco, lottery, environmental, or other certifications.
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Basic computer, email, point-of-sale, spreadsheet, and reporting skills.
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Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation may be required.
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Must meet applicable legal requirements for handling or selling age-restricted products.
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Must successfully complete any required background screening, drug testing, or motor-vehicle-record review.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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Strong leadership, organization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
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Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Understanding of retail sales, gross profit, labor control, inventory management, and expense control.
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Ability to read and interpret sales, labor, inventory, and financial reports.
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Strong cash-management and loss-prevention skills.
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Ability to train, coach, motivate, and hold employees accountable.
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Ability to address customer and employee concerns professionally.
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Knowledge of fuel, food-service, lottery, and convenience-store operations.
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Ability to maintain accurate records and meet reporting deadlines.
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Ability to work independently while following company policies.
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Sound judgment when handling emergencies, safety concerns, and confidential information.
Performance Expectations
The Store Manager’s performance may be evaluated based on:
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Sales and gross-profit performance.
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Labor-cost control and scheduling effectiveness.
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Inventory accuracy and shrinkage results.
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Cash and deposit accuracy.
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Fuel and merchandise margin performance.
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Food-service sales, waste, and profitability.
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Customer-service results.
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Store cleanliness and appearance.
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Employee retention, attendance, training, and performance.
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Completion of required reports and records.
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Safety, licensing, and regulatory compliance.
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Inspection, audit, and mystery-shop results.
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Maintenance of company and fuel-brand standards.
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Timely resolution of operational and employee issues.
Requirements
Scheduling and Availability Requirements
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Must be available to work a flexible schedule based on store needs.
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May be required to work mornings, evenings, overnight shifts, weekends, and holidays.
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Must be available by telephone for store emergencies, employee call-outs, alarm notifications, and urgent operational concerns.
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May be required to cover open shifts or remain at the store until appropriate coverage arrives.
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May be required to travel for bank deposits, training, meetings, inventory counts, or temporary store coverage.
Physical Requirements
The employee must be able to:
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Stand and walk for extended periods.
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Frequently bend, reach, climb, twist, push, pull, and perform repetitive movements.
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Lift, carry, move, and stock items weighing up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
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Work in refrigerated areas, outdoor weather conditions, and areas near fuel, cooking equipment, cleaning chemicals, and vehicle traffic.
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Safely climb a step stool or ladder when required.
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Operate registers, office equipment, food-service equipment, fuel controls, and store machinery.
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Perform cleaning duties, including sweeping, mopping, wiping surfaces, cleaning restrooms, and removing trash.
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Communicate effectively with customers, employees, vendors, and emergency personnel.
Benefits
Strong Salary, $50-60k
Flexible Timing, Day Offs
