Lead Culinary Assistant

Ebenezer • Mankato, MN

7h • Onsite

About The Position

The Pillars of Mankato provides independent living, assisted living, and memory care apartments for seniors in a specially designed community. The Lead Culinary Assistant is responsible for dining room meal service to residents. This is a full-time position, 72 hours every two weeks, with an 11:00am-7:30pm shift and includes every other weekend and holiday rotation.

Requirements

• less than 1 year

Nice To Haves

• High School or GED
• 1 year

Responsibilities

• Serves meals and ensures that the dining area is clean and inviting:
• Follows meal serving schedule and procedures.
• Offers resident meal choices and meets resident’s specific dietary needs
• Uses proper safety and sanitation techniques.
• Helps lead shift huddles for each meal.
• Outlines and delegates daily cleaning and production tasks for the Culinary Assistants as needed.
• Creates dining room cleaning schedules and procedures and ensures their completion.
• Ensures all dishes (including flatware, drinkware, etc.) are washed, sanitized, and put away before end of shift.
• Promotes and encourages positive resident relations and satisfaction:
• Welcomes residents and initiates conversation.
• Accommodates tenant/resident requests such as requests for food substitution, change in seating, etc.
• Listens to complaints and responds appropriately. Refers issues to Culinary Director as appropriate.
• Provides support and direction to Culinary Assistants:
• Oversees proper procedures for dining room set-up for daily meals and special events.
• Checks the daily task sheets for completion. Refers any incomplete tasks to the Chef/Culinary Director.
• Schedules Culinary Assistants
• Identify Culinary Assistant performance issues and communicates them to Culinary Director
• Trains new staff on proper procedures.
• Assists in completing the onboarding and orientation checklists for newly hired Culinary Assistants.
• Listens to complaints and respond appropriately. Refers issues to Culinary Director and Executive Director as appropriate.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision plans
• life insurance
• short-term and long-term disability insurance
• PTO and Sick and Safe Time
• tuition reimbursement
• retirement
• early access to earned wages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees