Kitchen Staff [Entry Level] - Sandpoint

Position Summary

The Kitchen Staff is responsible for preparing nutrition-approved meals, breakfast, lunch, and snacks for children, cleaning up and maintaining the site kitchen, and monitoring food & kitchen supply inventory. In addition, assist teaching staff with children in classrooms and/or playgrounds as needed, under the direction of the Education Supervisor.

Essential Functions

• Prepare meals that will be served to children during breakfast, lunch, and snack time.
• Wash and sanitize all food service equipment and materials used in preparing, cooking, transporting, serving, and storing food and non-food items.
• Ensure food safety by taking the temperature of food at delivery and before serving and confirming that refrigerators and freezers are operating properly.
• Provide feedback during annual menu planning meetings with the Preschool Health Team and Nutritionist and throughout the year.
• Work with the Education Supervisor and Health Coordinator to ensure quality from the food service provider.
• Prepare supply requests and take weekly inventory for kitchen and facility
• Track office and classroom supply inventory, create purchase orders for the operations team to purchase
• Complete daily kitchen Health and Safety Checks to ensure all equipment and supplies are prepared and cleaned. May also assist with outdoor Health and Safety Checks.

Additional Responsibilities

• Assist teachers by helping with children in classrooms and at bus pick-up/drop-off as requested.
• Assist staff with general office duties as assigned
• Other duties as assigned

Note: The job duties listed here are not intended to be an exhaustive list. Incumbents may be required to perform other duties to meet the needs of DLEC.

Position Range: $19.97 - $22.82 hourly, DORE

Benefits:

As a Denise Louie Education Center team member, you may receive some or all of the following employee benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, and options for supplemental Insurance coverage. Team members are eligible to participate in the company 401(k) plan, which offers a non-elective employer contribution after an introductory period. In addition, eligible full-time and part-time employees will accrue up to 18 days of PTO, eleven paid holidays, and one personal holiday annually.

Additional compensation may come in the form of tuition reimbursement, hiring, retention, longevity, referral, or special assignment bonuses, subject to budgetary limitations. Please visit our career page for more information on our current benefit offerings.

Location(s): 7101 62nd Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115

Physical Demands: To perform the job the employee is frequently required to talk, hear, stand, walk, stoop, and balance, kneel, crouch, reach with hands and arms. The incumbent will be required to carry materials weighing up to 40 lbs. on frequent basis, on an occasional basis lifting up to 50 lbs.

Working Conditions: The work is typically performed in an early childhood school environment, with moderate to loud noise levels.

The physical demands described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The working conditions are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

All staff must have MMR vaccinations at the time of hire.