Medium Hour Cook (Columbia Heights High School)

Columbia Heights Public Schools•Columbia Heights, MN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Columbia Heights Public Schools is seeking a medium hour cook to work at Columbia Heights High School. This position involves preparing, setting up, serving, and operating food service lines, as well as cleaning and maintaining cafeteria areas. The schedule is 4.5 hours per day, 5 days per week, and the position is eligible for prorated benefits.

Requirements

Level 1 Food Service Safety and Sanitation certification within 6 months of hire.
High school diploma or GED.
Moderate experience working in a high capacity food preparation environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
General knowledge of materials and methods used in preparing, serving and storing food and food supplies and sanitizing food preparation equipment on a large scale.
General knowledge of the use or care of food preparation equipment.
General knowledge of USDA rules and regulations.
General skill using a computer and applicable hardware and software.
General skill using standardized and specialized kitchen utensils and equipment.
Ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
Ability to work while standing and under high temperature conditions.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates.
Regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force.
Regularly requires standing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and lifting.
Frequently requires walking, speaking or hearing, reaching with hands and arms, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling and repetitive motions.
Standard vision requirements.
Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly.
Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
Requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using measuring devices, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities.

Nice To Haves

Membership in the Minnesota School Nutrition Association is preferred.
Experience working in a multi cultural setting and with diverse groups of people preferred.

Responsibilities

Prepares and serves breads, vegetables, fruits, deserts, salads and other foods.
Prepares one specific food preparation area and rotates through full range of food services.
Works on serving line; prepares meals, snacks and beverages.
Sets up serving line; sets out eating utensils, napkins, condiments, etc.
Washes pots, pans, kettles and other cooking utensils.
Cleans and sanitizes work surfaces, eating and food preparation area.
Sweeps and mops eating area and kitchen.
Operates dishwasher and other food service and mechanical equipment.
Keeps inventory of materials and supplies.
Completes food production records.
Receives and stocks food supplies.
Maintains sanitary conditions.
Serves as cashier; counts money received.