Utility Production Associate

PHILABUNDANCE•Philadelphia, PA

16d•$18 - $18•Onsite

About The Position

The Utility Associate will support all efforts to prepare meals. This will include prepping for events, volunteer activities, production flow, cleaning, trash removal, and restocking as needed. The Utility Production Associate will be following standard food safety processes and assist as needed. Must be comfortable in a fast-paced evolving environment. PCK has guests, students and adjusting staff levels. This role will work with guest activity to support the need for ongoing prep, clean up and restocking. Daily, Weekly and Monthly preventative maintenance schedule will be followed. This is a key role in ensuring the kitchen area is always inspection ready. Competencies: Accountability: reliable, honest, and transparent; regularly makes commitments and takes ownership of responsibilities. Effective Communication: conveys information clearly, with respect and integrity, using a professional manner and the appropriate means and channels for audience and subject matter. Agility: maintains efficiency in a changing work environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures. Quality: Work is organized, accurate and neat. The employee displays a commitment to excellence, checks work and learns from mistakes and seeks feedback to improve quality as needed. Engagement: contributes to the success of the organization by embracing teamwork, taking initiative on tasks and problem-resolution, and seeking out learning opportunities.

Requirements

Must be able to take directions and follow prescribed processes.
Ability to communicate status, needs and activities as they occur, raise issues to leadership.
Must apply best practices and always use culinary safety methods.
Self-motivated, ability to work under pressure, ability to work unsupervised.
Manage competing priorities, changes, and challenges with effective problem-solving ability.
Self-motivated, ability to take direction and follow through with high quality and detail.
A deep commitment to Philabundance’s mission
Must be available work weekends and evenings or rotating schedules (i.e. specific days and times throughout the week given PCK’s 365-day operations, etc.) depending on business and/or shelter staffing needs.
Move, push/pull and carry objects/parcels no greater than 50 pounds; when moving/lowering, pushing/pulling and carrying objects/parcels greater than 50 pounds use 2 people or mechanical.
Work in a standing position for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week; Bend, stoop/squat, and walk intermittently throughout the day.
Ability to work with chemicals, cleaning products, plastic, and high-water temperatures for cleaning activities.
See, hear, and speak with sufficient capability to perform assigned tasks and maintain proper job safety conditions and communication with the public.
Maintain an acceptable work pace and align with required deadlines.
Must meet deadlines.
Must be able to read words and numbers accurately.
Work in an environment that will contain variable temperatures which may include extreme cold due to refrigeration and freezers or higher than average due to cooking equipment.
Demonstrate cognitive ability to follow directions and routines, work independently with safety and efficiency as part of appropriate judgement.
High School Diploma or GED required, additional formal education a plus.
SERVSafe certified a plus, must be willing to work toward certification (30 days).
Experience in a professional environment, school, retail, or volunteer situation.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of one year of experience in a professional kitchen or foodservice operation preferred.
Ability to speak multiple languages a plus.
Fluency with Spanish highly preferred.
Previous experience with sanitation in a culinary environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Directly responsible for alignment with kitchen preparation for events, volunteer activity and visitor supplies, food prep, packaging and other related needs to ensure PCK is proactively ready for events.
Provides support for packaging food, prep and clean up.
Provides cross coverage for Utility Associate and provides support to the Executive Chef, Catering Chef and Director PCK as well as Volunteer Associate as needed and assigned as special projects or volume over flow.
Maintains an up-to-date cleaning schedule to ensure floors, surfaces, equipment, serving and cooking utensils and tools are clean. General cleaning, sanitizing and alignment with compliance requirements should be addressed at all times.
Assists in kitchen inspections, scheduled and special requests.
Consistent review and removal of trash and debris to always maintain sanitary conditions.
Maintains a professional, clean, and neat environment and provides extra review of before, during and after event activity to keep kitchen environment clean and organized.
Responsible for supporting and aligning with Philabundance Cultural pillars. Ensuring communications, actions and interactions reflect a focus on People, Professionalism, Partnerships, and Progress.
Supports inventory of food, supplies, and equipment; counting and stock rotation as needed.
May be asked to support packaging and preparing meals, as needed.
Special projects and general support as requested.