General Job Requirements:
As assigned to work as helper under the close supervision of a cook by performing such duties as: to wash, peel, chop, dice, or grind vegetables, fruits, and other foods for cooking or for salads; to do other simple work in food preparation such as: making toast, coffee, tea, chocolate; preparing cereal, cooking eggs; making sandwiches; stirring soup; boiling potatoes or other vegetables; to assemble diet trays and as instructed arranges food thereon to be served to patients; loads food onto food trucks or paces food in receptacles in steam tables; to set up dining tables for service; and as required to serve food to persons in a cafeteria from steam tables; to collect trays, soiled dishes, cutlery, glassware, etc. after meals and to dispose (swill) of scrap or leftover foods; to wash dishes manually or in an automatic dishwashing machine and to wash cutlery and glassware and to put them in their designated places for reuse; to clean and wash food trucks, dishwashing machines, iceboxes, walk-in refrigerators and other kitchen equipment and utensils; to clean and wash down the kitchen cafeteria and related dining areas; and to do related work as required. As assigned to work as a helper under the close supervision of a baker by performing such duties as: to assemble materials and to weigh, measure, and as instructed mix ingredients by hand or in an electric powered mixing machine to roll dough, and fill pans with dough or batter: to place goods to be baked in, and remove them from ovens to perform such tasks as carrying materials to a baker or to machines, depositing ingredients in containers, greasing pans, lining pans with greased paper or other appropriate lining; to move racks or rack trucks of dough and/or batter, or baked goods to and from ovens; to clean bakery areas and related equipment and utensils and to do related work as required. As assigned, to work in the central food processing plant by performing such duties as: to work as a helper to cooks, bakers and meat cutters in performing such tasks as assembling, portioning, packaging and transporting of materials, to operate a pan and rack washing machine; to wash pots and pans; to clean work areas and refrigerators; and to do related work as required.
Education Requirements:
Sufficient to follow simple verbal and written directions and to generate simple sums and differences; and such as may have been gained through: employment as a helper in a kitchen or bakery in a hospital, hotel or restaurant which required the performance of routine work in food preparation, food service and various tasks incidental to the preparation of food in a kitchen or bakery, and food service in a dining room or cafeteria. Or, any combination of education and experience that shall be substantially equivalent to the above education and experience.
To Apply:
Email to: dsilva1@ric.edu
Apply online at: https://employment.ric.edu/postings/6492