Kitchen Assistant

Essential Duties and Responsibilities/Functions

• Supervise students on assigned kitchen and diner serving duties.
• Maintain a clean kitchen area and storage area.
• Be able to supervise up to 13  students on cleaning of the kitchen, dining area and other potential jobs.
• Demonstrated and oversee students in how to properly clean kitchen, dining room, serving line and storeroom areas.
• Responsible for putting away all afternoon deliveries, rotating stock, organizing storeroom and walk in coolers/freezers.
• Additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications (Skills and Abilities Required)

• High school diploma or GED.
• 1 year commercial/institutional kitchen experience.
• Some experience in commercial food safety practice. 
• Be able to be sociable and work well with our students.
• Fundamental understanding of food safety practices.
• Through behavior and actions, embraces the core values of Williamson.
• Ability to work in teams or work independently and direct oneself daily.

Working Conditions

• This position will be working in the kitchen and dining area as well as storerooms, freezers and walk-in cooling units.
• Work schedule is typically Monday-Friday from 1:00 pm until 7:30 pm

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift boxes of food and handle the physical demands of the job including standing and bending, operating cleaning equipment.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Direct supervisory responsibilities are supervising 6 student washing pots, pans and dishes, cleaning and restocking until dinner. Train and supervise 7 student servers to serve dinner, clean up dining room and serving line before closing.

Other Duties

Please note this position (job) description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position (job).  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.