Cooks Assistant Full Time Full Year
Cooks Assistant Full Time Full Year
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Job Description
Title:Cooks Assistant (Full Time Full Year)
Position Purpose:
Bates Dining Conferences and Campus Events oversees all student dining and is also the Colleges catering provider. Staff holding a Cooks Assistant position primarily work in student dining providing approximately 5000 meals per day to the students faculty staff and guests of the college who dine in Commons. They are also called upon to prepare items for catered events as needed.
As such this position calls for someone who is able to safely efficiently and consistently produce and present food in a high volume setting. A focus on providing outstanding customer service and exemplary organizational and time management skills are a must.
Job Duties:
- Ability to perform the following duties which may include but are not limited to preparing student meals preparing catered events and assisting in other areas as needed.
- Follow standardized recipes.
- Ensure proper production records are maintained.
- Ensure proper sanitation standards are maintained.
- Display a pleasant demeanor and helpful attitude.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Maintains the highest levels of customer service practices at all times.
- Promotes and values diversity and practices twoway communication.
- Meeting schedule includes monthly Dining Conferences and Campus Events town meetings.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education
- Culinary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience desired.
- Serve Safe certification.
Experience
- Minimum of one year of experience in an institutional or high volume full service food operation required with a demonstrated forward professional progression.
- Previous experience in a high volume collegiate setting desired.
Skills and Knowledge
- Commitment to customer service.
- Exemplary organizational and time management skills are a must.
- Ability to follow written and oral directions
- Ability to multitask.
- Understand and thrives in a high volume food service environment.
- Creativity and expertise in most facets of food production.
- Ability to relate well to individuals with varying backgrounds education and skills.
- Commitment to equity and inclusion and serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse community.
Benefits:
Bates College offers competitive salaries excellent benefits (health dental 9 retirement contribution with potential for an additional 3 match 10 days of vacation* 13 paid holidays free parking access to library and athletic facilities & more) and a supportive collegial environment in a drug and smokefree workplace.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color national or ethnic origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression age disability genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students in the administration of its education policies and programs or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. All college faculty staff students contractors visitors and volunteers are responsible for understanding and complying with the NonDiscrimination Policy.
Inquiries concerning the colleges policies compliance with applicable laws statutes and regulations (such as Title VII Title IX and ADA/Section 504 and complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow Title IX Officeror via email at .
About Bates:
Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college attracting 2000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.
Since 1855 Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender race religion or national origin.
Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world. Bates engages the forces intellectual trends demographic changes and technology that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.
Bates has highly competitive admissions graduates over 90 percent of its entering students and more than half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates employs 200 faculty members and 550 staff.
The college is proud of deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community Maines secondlargest urban area with a population of approximately 65000. Bates is located on a beautiful 133acre traditional New England campus in Lewiston an emerging city with an entrepreneurial climate a lively arts scene and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland 140 miles north of Boston and 350 miles north of New York City.
Employment Type
Full-Time
