Culinary Assistant, Storeroom

Job Title

Under the direction of Food Services Leadership, performs food service duties throughout unit including but not limited to: set-up and preparation of food and beverages. Performs cashiering duties; dish washing; kitchen equipment cleaning and maintenance.

Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists and/or prepares customer orders: including but not limited to: eggs made to orders, items on the grill or fryer, and kitchen preparation.
• Ability to follow recipes and retrieve recipe(s) from electronic data base.
• Assists, follows directions, and performs food prep including but not limited to: cleaning, peeling, cutting vegetables, mixing ingredients, sandwich preparation and food display.
• Prepares food for distribution including but not limited to: plating, servings, setting up and maintaining serving line selections.
• Provides customer service excellence while addressing students, faculty and staff concerns and complaints and performs problem resolution; maintains safe and sanitary working conditions.
• Replaces stock regularly on a daily basis.
• Assist in the setup and/or clean-up of catering requests including but not limited to maintaining carts, buffets, and tabling catering functions for all areas throughout the District as needed.
• Delivers catering orders to respected rooms at designated times to various district locations.
• Relays orders and messages as required.
• Establishes, maintains, and enhances positive work relationships with staff, faculty, and administrators.
• Enters product deliveries into register inventory tracking system and assists in inventory counts
• Cleans dishes, trays, pots, pans and other relevant tools and eating equipment and performs routine cleaning.
• Cleans tables and food service areas.
• Practices honesty by demonstrating a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles, values, truthfulness and accuracy in all actions.
• Collaborates in the instruction of culinary students and student workers.
• Performs other related duties within the scope of the position as required for the efficient operation of the division and to support institutional objectives.

Qualifications

Compliance with all state, federal, and accreditation standards/requirements, as well as all MATC policies and procedures.

Required Education & Experience : High School Diploma or G.E.D equivalency required and (1) year of experience in related area

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of the use of a variety of commercial kitchen equipment including basic and safe knife skills.
• Knowledge of personal hygiene and sanitation standards and the ability to maintain these standards.
• Skilled at basic mathematical functions and applications.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Physical ability sufficient to lift and move supplies up to 50 pounds and push or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to lift, push, pull or carry objects.
• Ability to walk long distances and stand during entire shift.
• Ability to utilize excellent customer services skills in order to establish and maintain effective working relationships with MATC staff, faculty, students, representatives from outside agencies, business community and the general public.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and promote a positive working environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, students and school personnel.
• Ability to communicate effectively through both oral and written means.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently, collaborate as a team member and some decisions consistent with established rules.
• Ability to access and disseminate information using computers and proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, ability to complete online mandatory in-services.

Supplemental Information

This is a part-time 43-week, in-person position (up to 19 hours per week) based primarily at the Downtown Milwaukee campus. Standard hours are 7:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. 43-week position (academic year schedule)

Compensation Salary pay rates are listed up to the midpoint of the range and placement is determined based on years of experience, internal salary equity, and a review of the applicant's employment and educational background as listed on the job application.

Application Materials & Requirements: Applicants (both internal and external) must complete the employment application in its entirety for consideration.

You must provide thorough and detailed information for all sections of the application form. An incomplete application will not be considered.

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