Culinary Aide - Events experience

Shepherd Center•Atlanta, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Shepherd Center is a world-class rehabilitation facility with five decades of experience, specializing in complex conditions like spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, amputations, stroke, MS, and pain. Ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation's top hospitals for rehabilitation, it's also recognized as a Model System for both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury. Shepherd Center is unique in having an on-site intensive care unit, enabling earlier intervention for complex patients. The center's culture emphasizes hope, humor, and hard work, fostering career growth, strong relationships, leadership support, and employee longevity. This role provides leadership, promotes high standards in food and customer service, and contributes to department goal development. It involves leading, developing, executing, organizing, and overseeing catering events to positively impact the target audience, ensuring events are successful, cost-effective, and within budget and time constraints. The position requires collaboration with the culinary team to generate fresh ideas aligned with Shepherd Center's philosophy, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

High school diploma required
Ability to coordinate catering operations across the department.
Proficient in interacting with catering and culinary staff to communicate information relevant to events
Lift a maximum of 50 lbs.
Must be able to bend and squat repetitive action
Reach above shoulder level repetitive action
To use right hand and left hand for repetitive action
To perform simple grasping
Able to push and pull 25lbs of force maximum
Employee must use right foot and use left foot for repetitive action

Nice To Haves

bachelor’s degree is preferred
1 year of experience in retail sales and customer service preferred

Responsibilities

Coordinate and lead catering operations to assure quality services.
Perform menu selection and food preparation to ensure all events are successful.
Explore opportunities to obtain new catering opportunities.
Develop positive working relationship with existing customers for repeat business.
Work consistently with Food & Nutrition Service staff on the operation and execution of events.
Respond to customer inquiries in accurate and timely manner.
Prepare comprehensive catering order form according to client’s requirements and interests.
Attend all relevant Food & Nutrition Services meetings on regular basis.
Adhere to sanitation and safety standards.
Assist with developing pricing, special menus when working with catering clients.
Maintains or changes product displays including those required for periodic events.
Performs product inventory in accordance with established policies and maintains related records.
Performs other related duties as assigned or required.