Culinary Assistant

Three Pillars•Dousman, WI

About The Position

The Culinary Assistant supports meal service and food preparation for residents and guests. Duties include setting up the dining room, taking residents’ food orders, preparing and serving entrees, salads, beverages, and desserts, and ensuring residents’ dining needs are met. The role also includes transporting meal items to or from Compass Point dining areas and tracking resident meals in the appropriate logbooks. The Culinary Assistant cleans and maintains the kitchen, dining room, and dish area. Responsibilities include bussing tables, washing and storing dishes and cookware, removing garbage, maintaining dining room floors, completing scheduled cleaning, and following infection-control, safety, and sanitation procedures. The position also involves checking refrigerator and freezer cleanliness and temperatures, reporting defective equipment to the Dining Services Manager, assisting with employee training, participating in meetings as needed, and supporting quality improvement and customer service. Other duties may be assigned by the supervisor. The work requires frequent standing, bending, walking, reaching, and pushing; lifting up to 25 pounds frequently and up to 50 pounds occasionally; communicating and following written instructions in English; working in a team with minimal supervision; and completing work within timeframes. The role may involve working around wet or slippery floors, hot cooking equipment, and knives or blades. Salary is $15.25–$19.35 per hour.

Requirements

Frequently stand, bend, walk, reach, and push.
Lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds frequently and up to 50 pounds occasionally.
Communicate and follow written instructions in English.
Work in a team environment with minimal supervision.
Work within timeframes.
Be able to handle hostile or emotionally upset residents.

Responsibilities

Set up dining room tables for meals.
Take food orders from residents.
Prepare and serve entrees, salads, beverages, and desserts, with meals ready at the stated time.
Serve meals and ensure residents’ dining needs are met.
Bus tables and keep the dining room clean and orderly.
Follow infection-control, safety, and sanitation procedures throughout food handling and while maintaining work areas.
Clean dishes, pots, pans, flatware, and glasses, and store them properly.
Take garbage to the dumpster and perform scheduled cleaning jobs.
Maintain the cleanliness of dining room floors.
Follow safe food-handling practices during receiving, storage, preparation, serving, and reheating.
Check daily for cleanliness and correct temperatures of freezers and refrigerators.
Report defective equipment to the Dining Services Manager.
Assist with employee training and participate in meetings as needed.
Transport meal items to or from Compass Point dining areas.
Track and record residents’ meals in the proper logbooks.
Keep current with job standards through in-service training, continuing education, and personal and professional development.
Seek opportunities for quality improvement and recognize and respond appropriately to customer needs.
Achieve satisfactory performance in all performance evaluation areas.
Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.