About the Role
Cooks and serves nutritional meals and snacks in accordance with established guidelines and schedules, ensuring safe and presentable preparation and service. Cleans kitchen facilities, equipment, and appliances, and maintains inventory of supplies and food.
Responsibilities
- Cooks and prepares a variety of foods and beverages utilizing kitchen equipment, utensils and supplies.
- Ensures enough food is prepared based on the number of people to be served and that food is prepared in a timely manner.
- Serves food and beverages in a presentable manner, preparing plates for infants or persons requiring additional assistance.
- Maintains proper supply and orderliness of kitchen stock inventory.
- Informs supervisor if inventory is low for ordering and food purchases.
- Drives to pick up food donations.
- Receives, receipts, and stores food donations and food orders.
- Cleans tables, chairs, floors, dishes, utensils and kitchen appliances.
- Maintains a high degree of cleanliness in the kitchen and dining room.
- Ensures that all meals are prepared in a safe manner.
- Ensures all kitchen personnel practice proper personal hygiene.
- Ensures compliance with health regulations.
- Receives and stocks foods, beverages, and supplies in an orderly and safe manner.
- Stores, refrigerates and freezes foods in a safe and economical manner.
- Monitors expiration dates on all foods ensuring proper disposal of expired food.
- Washes, dries, and stores pots, pans, plates, glasses, cups, bowls, and utensils.
- Sweeps and mops kitchen and vacuums dining room floors.
- Empties trash cans.
- Cleans refrigerators, freezers, ice machines, coffee makers, stoves, and ovens.
Requirements
- Ability to meet attendance requirements.
- Ability to read, write, and communicate the English language effectively.
- Ability to cook, taste and smell food.
- Ability to perform continuous walking, stooping, standing, and some climbing.
- Duties are performed standing and requires squatting, climbing, bending and walking.
- Extensive amount of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying heavy objects (up to 75 lbs.) frequently.
- Work will normally be performed in a kitchen environment where there are physical discomforts associated with changes in temperature associated with cooking and the kitchen environment.
- High school diploma or G.E.D.
- One-year experience cooking food for large groups, OR Any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Valid State Drivers License.
- Food Handler’s Certificate (or ability to obtain within established timeframe).
Skills
- Bilingual Spanish/English Highly Preferred
Location
- TX-Austin Rathgeber Center - Austin, TX 78721
Work Type
- 40 hours per week
Experience Level
- One-year experience cooking food for large groups
Education Level
- High school diploma or G.E.D.
Benefits
- 29 days Paid Time Off
- Affordable Health Insurance Benefits
- Retirement Benefits with Employer Match
Equal Opportunity
- Veterans | Disabled
