Childcare Center Cook

Summary

Responsible for preparing and delivering of meals through close coordination with center teachers that exceeds State and USDA requirements while creating a ‘home cooked’, ‘family’ style, healthy meal for the children. Additionally, responsible for ensuring that Northstar Early Learning Center provides the premier child development experience that is educational and affordable.
Tasks:

• Apportion and serve food to children
• Compile and maintain records of food use and expenditures
• Train new employees
• Take inventory of supplies and equipment
• Manage center food and nutrition program
• Prepare meals
• Maintain cleanliness of kitchen, supplies
• Inventory of supplies, equipment
• Follow dishwashing procedures as is relates to Rule 3
• Support children’s emotional, social development
• Maintain CEU’s and upgrade training
• Complete certification process to become a teacher
• Prepare breakfast and snack for children
• Must be able to attend work as scheduled

Duties

Work Activities:

• follow recipes;
• understand state health and food service regulations;
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards;
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work;
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public;
• Serve food or beverages;
• provide customer service;
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems;
• determine food or beverage costs;
• determine food portions;
• Performing General Physical Activities;
• clean kitchen work area;
• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings;
• Temperature of food to determine that it is cooked;
• Handling and Moving Objects;
• cook meals;
• use knives;
• wash dishes, glassware, or related utensils;
• prepare appetizers, salads, or cold dishes;
• carve meat or bone fish or fowl;
• perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking;
• knead, shape, cut, or roll food products by hand;
• cut, trim, or clean meat, or carcasses;
• bake breads, rolls, or other baked goods;
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material;
• evaluate premises for cleanliness.

Requirements

Serve Safe Certification for Manager or ability to obtain within 60 days of hire
Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
Ability to work alone and stay on task
Ability to prioritize work that needs to be accomplished

Benefits

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Education scholarship through TEACH if desiring to follow an education in Early Education