Seasonal Cooking Camp Assistant

PCC Cooking Class Assistant

PCC Cooking Class Assistants help ensure a fun, safe, and educational environment during PCC Cooking Classes Kids' and Teens' Camps. During classes, they provide excellent, professional customer service to both external and internal customers. They provide support to the instructor, including classroom set-up, student support, food prep, washing dishes, and clean up. Work will begin when classes start on June 22nd and will run through the end of August.

Job Location: US-WA-Redmond

Address: 11435 Avondale Rd NE

Our Culture

If you're a people person, you're a PCC person. Maybe it's our co-op roots, or maybe it's our Northwest nature, but we embrace stewardship and take action because we care. As one of the most trusted grocers in Seattle, we foster high standards and look to our staff members to build trust by acting with integrity toward our members and shoppers, and toward each other.

PCC is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We value all the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our staff members invest in their work, stores and communities. Valuing diversity is a significant part of our culture, our values and PCC's success.

PCC provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Main Job Responsibilities

• Assists instructors with classroom setup and ingredient preparation. Shops, as needed, for class ingredients at PCC Community Markets.
• Provides excellent, professional customer service to both external and internal customers
• Assists, supports, and supervises PCC Cooking Classes Kids' Camp attendees during class
• Provides support to the instructor, including classroom set-up, food prep, serving, washing dishes, and clean up.
• Works effectively as part of a team, collaborating with the instructor and fellow assistants.
• Follows safe food-handling procedures.
• Ensures classroom is properly cleaned and communicates classroom issues to the Co-op Chef
• This position works consistently at a light physical work level and may be asked to work on occasion at a medium or heavy physical work level when supporting stores or other offsite events. Frequently required to sit, walk, reach, and grasp. Required to be on feet with a mix of standing and walking throughout shift.

Qualifications and Skills

• Available to work Monday through Friday throughout the summer camp season
• Available a minimum of 8 of 10 weeks of the summer camp season
• Demonstrated excellent, professional customer service skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced classroom setting
• Experience working with school-age children (ages 8 to 16)
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to meet physical requirements of standing, twisting, bending, repetitive motion and lifting up to 30 lbs. on a regular basis
• Available weekday mornings and afternoons
• Reliable transportation and ability to travel to PCC locations.

Benefits and Perks

• Staff discount on in-store purchases
• Free Co-op membership
• Sick accrual - 0.005 hours per hour worked (WA sick = .005)

Additional Details

• Reports to: Co-op Chef
• Seasonal Role, June to September.
• Offer is contingent on completion of a background check.
• Hours: 24 hours weekly on average

Work occurs in an office, a variety of off-site environments and in a grocery store environment which includes surfaces that can be wet and slippery, moderate noise level, and temperature extremes in controlled environments in the cooler and freezer, and depending on location, working outside in all temperatures. There may be exposure to certain allergens and / or chemicals. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and other applicable state or local law, we will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties, responsibilities, and requirements, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function within our company. PCC Community Markets reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet the changing industry or business needs as necessary.

Comp Details

Starting Wage: $17.13/hour