Pantry Helper

Job Summary : Assists with food preparation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares salads, fruits, and gelatin desserts.
• Cleans vegetables, fruits, and berries for salads, relishes and gelatin desserts.
• Mixes ingredients for green salads and fruit salads.
• Prepares relish plates of various vegetables and prepares dressings to be served on green salads.
• Peels, cleans and cuts fruits and vegetables.
• Sets-up salad bars, read menus and check production.
• Operates a variety of kitchen utensils to weigh, measure, wash, peel, cut, season cold foods for serving and storing.
• Properly stores food, utilizing knowledge of temperature requirements and spoilage.
• Inspects cold food workstations for compliance with service standards.
• Keeps records and requisition for supplies / equipment as needed.
• Cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment following all regulatory rules and procedures.
• May prepare cold sandwiches and cheeses.

Wage Range : $17.01 to $18 per hour

Comprehensive health coverage available

Tuition Assistance

10 Paid Holidays

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Required Skills

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to follow standard file recipes and make notations of existing discrepancies (consults cook or supervisor regarding any changes).
• Ability to accurately process recording of leftover foods.
• Ability to learn operation and care of all mechanical equipment used.
• Ability to learn and practice principles of safety and sanitation.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed instructions and to deal with problems as they arise.
• Ability to use passive vocabulary of 5-6000 words; to read at a slow rate; define unfamiliar words in dictionaries for meaning, spelling and pronunciation.
• Finger dexterity-using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up objects or pinching fingers together.
• Ability to talk, especially where one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately.
• Average hearing, able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Average visual ability- average, ordinary visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.
• Must be in good physical condition and able to lift and carry objects / equipment, etc. up to 50 pounds or more.
• Able to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces.

This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

• Able to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist (stooping).
• Able to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees (kneeling).
• Able to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine (crouching).
• Able to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet (crawling).
• Able to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Able to remain upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Able to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Able to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Able to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Able to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Able to pick, pinch, type or otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather that with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Able to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Required Experience

Credentials and Experience

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent,
• Previous quantity cooking / food handling experience.

Special Requirements

• Hazards include, but not limited to, cuts from broken glass, metal cans, burns, slipping and tripping.
• Frequently immerses hands in water.
• Works frequently in a hot and damp environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to follow standard file recipes and make notations of existing discrepancies (consults cook or supervisor regarding any changes).
• Ability to accurately process recording of leftover foods.
• Ability to learn operation and care of all mechanical equipment used.
• Ability to learn and practice principles of safety and sanitation.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed instructions and to deal with problems as they arise.
• Ability to use passive vocabulary of 5-6000 words; to read at a slow rate; define unfamiliar words in dictionaries for meaning, spelling and pronunciation.
• Finger dexterity-using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up objects or pinching fingers together.
• Ability to talk, especially where one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately.
• Average hearing, able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Average visual ability- average, ordinary visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.
• Must be in good physical condition and able to lift and carry objects / equipment, etc. up to 50 pounds or more.
• Able to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces.

This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

• Able to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist (stooping).
• Able to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees (kneeling).
• Able to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine (crouching).
• Able to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet (crawling).
• Able to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Able to remain upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Able to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Able to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Able to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Able to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Able to pick, pinch, type or otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather that with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Able to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
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