Housing Monitor & Cook (5041)

This position is responsible for:

• Accepts and processes residents staying in shelter overnight; monitors the activity of residents on an assigned shift ensuring safety, security and compliance to house rules.

Key Responsibilities :

• Maintains accurate and complete records and logs containing pertinent information.
• ensures that shelter is maintained in a neat and proper order.
• Plans, prepares, cooks and serves nutritional meals and snacks in accordance with established guidelines and schedules.
• ensures all meals are prepared and served in a safe and presentable manner; cleans kitchen facilities, equipment, and appliances; maintains inventory of kitchen supplies and food in a neat and orderly manner.

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:

• Ability to meet attendance requirements. Ability to read, write, and communicate the English language.
• Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and calmly while maintaining control and initiating the proper corrective action.
• Ability to perform combinations of sitting, standing, and walking on a frequent change basis. 
•  Distance of travel is usually within the same building. Limited amount of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying light objects (less than 25 lbs.) 5-10% of work time.
• Ability to cook, taste, and smell food. Ability to lift and carry and/or push/pull light objects (less than 25 pounds); duties are usually performed by frequent walking and/or standing, kneeling, or squatting relieved by lesser periods of sitting.  
• Work is performed in a normal kitchen environment where there may be limited physical discomforts associated with working around hot stoves/ovens or cold freezers.

Benefits: 

• Aflac
• Voluntary Life
• PTO

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• One-year experience cooking food for large groups
• AND
• one-year experience performing security or social service work preferred,
• OR
• any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• License & Certifications 
• None.

Equal Opportunity Employer : Veterans /Disabled