What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chef Assistant position at Ronald Mcdonald House I?
Ronald McDonald House Charities® of St. Louis
KEEPING FAMILIES CLOSE
The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities is to provide comfort, care, and a home-away-from-home for families of seriously ill children. Our objective is to enable families to practice family-centered care by providing them with the basic comforts of home during difficult times.
We are excited to welcome a full-time Chef Assistant to our mission-focused team of professionals dedicated to compassion, hospitality, and exceptional family support. This is a unique opportunity to work in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen alongside and under the leadership of an experienced Executive Chef, helping create comforting, home-style meals for families staying at the House.
The Chef Assistant plays an important role in supporting the daily meal service program, maintaining the organization and cleanliness of the kitchen, and ensuring a warm and welcoming dining experience for families and volunteers alike.
This position also assists with leading volunteer meal groups in meal preparation and service while following ServSafe protocols and maintaining high standards for food safety and sanitation.
The Chef Assistant supports compliance with all local, state, and federal laws, regulations, safety standards, and sanitation procedures.
As part of the RMHC team, this position collaborates closely with staff, volunteers, and community partners to achieve departmental and organizational goals in support of the RMHC mission and Core Values.
Schedule: This position is scheduled for weekdays from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM, plus one consistent weekend shift per week. Employees receive two days off per week.
Basic Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of culinary experience
- Must have food handler and/or ServSafe certifications
- Understanding of nutrition, food costing and sourcing, meal production and planning;
- Extensive knowledge of health and safety rules and regulations pertaining to commercial food establishments including sanitation and maintenance regulations;
- Knowledge of commercial restaurant equipment
Essential Functions
- Operations
- Assists with the operation of commercial kitchen areas.
- Assists with a safe and healthy food service program that will deliver quality, variety, service, cleanliness, and value for Ronald McDonald House guests, volunteers, and staff, including internal house events, functions, and meetings.
- Follows all food safety and sanitation requirements and practices to maintain high standards of quality control, hygiene, health, and safety.
- Participates in the safe preparation and serving of food with attention to portion size control and timely service.
- Assists with inventory supply system to stock pantries and minimize waste, utilizing first in/first out procedures.
- Ensures cleaning checklist and temperature requirements are being logged.
- Supports the cleanliness, sanitation and equipment maintenance of kitchen and dining areas.
- Provides direction, coordination, and supervision to volunteer meal groups.
- Regular and reliable attendance
Nonessential Functions
- Assists with Special projects, as requested
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands
Must be able to concentrate and remain focused while handling multiple tasks, responsibilities and projects. Must be able to perform bending, twisting, stooping, reaching, and lifting of moderate to heavy weight material up to 50 lbs. Must be able to frequently climb stairs, including up to 3 flights, and frequently walk distances up to approximately 80 yards. Must be able to travel between RMH locations as needed.
Working Conditions
This job operates in a kitchen environment, housed with equipment such as an oven, stove, dishwasher, slicer, coffee machine, steamer, fryer, mixer, and commercial grade knives. The employee is frequently exposed to heat, steam, fire and noise. This job also operates in a professional work environment.
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