Job Details
Job Location
HAWC – Houston, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
High School
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Being the TemporaryResidential Cook is responsible for food preparation, cooking, serving, and cleaning tasks to ensure the kitchen remains safe, sanitary, and efficient in creating and delivering dishes to clients. In this role, the Residential Cook is responsible for serving a minimum of 125 client meals per day. This role is a fun and fast-paced environment with a dynamic team.
Your Schedule:
- Full Time temporary position until 12/2023
- Monday – Friday from 5:30am-2:30pm
- Local Travel:0%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Salary Range: $17.02hourly
- Pay schedule bi-monthly
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivor’s life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- A minimum of one year of food service experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Excel, and Teams.
- Maintain a valid Food Management Certificate
- Maintain a valid Culinary Certificate, preferred.
- You have a valid Texas driver’s license with a good driving record; reliable transportation; ability to travel to off-site locations utilizing personal transportation
What you Deliver in this role:
- Monitor food inventories and document according to donor guidelines (Houston Food Bank etc.)
- Prepare three meals per day for clients residing at the Flagship Campus at posted meal-times with adherence to approved menus.
- Abide by enterprise process for accommodating clients with food restrictions/special diets (i.e. cultural or medical).
- Prepare sack lunches in advance for clients that will not be located at the Flagship Campus during posted meal-times.
- Prepare food with sanitation in mind and follow all safety protocols established by the enterprise, city, state, and federal standards (i.e. food storage, food labeling, food rotation, preparation, and serving of food).
- Serve food in accordance with enterprise, CACFP, city, state, and federal standards.
- Ensure compliance with Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) guidelines for meal preparation and portion control.
- Ensure accurate documentation required by Child and Adult Food Care Program, HAWC, the Houston Food Bank, and the End Hunger Network.
- Clean all equipment and surfaces in the kitchen during and after meal preparation.
- Ensure the logging of refrigerator/ freezer temperatures daily.
- Maintain proper uniform and personal hygiene standards.
- Ensure that interns and volunteers comply with all established sanitation and safety procedures.
- Ensure that interns clean the tables and floors in the dining area.
- Assume responsibility for the freshness and quality of items prepared.
- Immediately refrigerate or store in a holding tray all items not to be served immediately.
- Substitute donated products when appropriate.
- Clean all dishes in accordance with the City of Houston guidelines.
- Examine all donated and purchased food in the receiving area before storing.
- Reject damaged/infested food items.
- Monitor food inventories.
- Adjust inventories to reflect receipt and use of food.
- Attending necessary training and in-services as required.
- Other duties may be assigned.
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- Excellent attention to details
- Demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information
- Ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines
- Has a growth mindset and is a good team player
- Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.