Job Details

The Community Kitchen is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to provide the basic daily support of all aspects of prep and kitchen assistance in our fast paced high volume Community Kitchen.

Pay Rate: $18.00 to $20.00 based on experience
Shift: AM Shift 5AM or 6AM Start

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists with the preparation of home-cooked, nutritious meals and serving meals up to 1000 community residents on a daily basis by adhering to existing work practices.
• Ensure chef has necessary ingredients for food preparation by sorting & distributing ingredients to the appropriate work areas.
• Follow instructions and strict food hygiene, health, safety and food preparation techniques for washing, peeling, chopping, cutting, and cooking foodstuff and preparing salads and desserts.
• Complies with all sanitation, health, cleaning and housekeeping procedures when washing work surface, equipment, work area, floors, walls and disposing of rubbish.
• Direct and oversee volunteers during food preparation.
• Carry out tasks quickly, competently and within designated time frame.
• Perform basic support duties as product storage, FIFO, inventory, ware washing as well as equipment cleaning and proper storage.
• Maintain temperature logs of the food and cold storage area.
• Cross-train for other positions within the Community Kitchen and attend training courses as appropriate.
• Ability to lift 30-50 lbs and move that weight 20 feet
• Carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall unction of the job.

Qualifications:

• Prefer a valid ServSafe and/or Food Protection certification
• High School Diploma or equivalent plus 2-5 years culinary training and/or experience
• Team player with excellent communication and customer service skills
• Ability to carry out tasks quickly and competently
• Ability to follow instructions
• Good communication skills
• Enthusiasm and the ability to use your initiative and work in a team

Our team brings experience, practical knowledge, and staffing know-how, to enable clients and candidates to make successful choices. We work hard to continuously adapt and learn the needs of our clients and candidates. Our ability to grow niche skill categories to capture large portions of a regional market for talent is unparalleled.