Kitchen Porter; Centralized Kitchen; 574

About The Centers

The Centers through healing, teaching, and inspiring helps individuals and families to reach their full potential. We provide health, family, and workforce services at 11 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives. We strive to be a service-oriented workplace that pioneers and co-creates solutions while fostering an inclusive community where our team members thrive.

Our Workforce Center impacts local communities through the linkage of underserved job seekers with local employers through our culturally competent job readiness training, case management, national third party certifications, job placements and retention support with a large network of corporate partners. Through our training tracks in Customer Service, Hospitality, Pharmacy, and general job readiness in both English and Spanish, we are able to provide essential skills to our job seekers and to help prepare them for success in today's workplace.

Wellbeing and Benefits

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff's well-being. That's why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff.

• Choice of medical and dental plans
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care
• Vision
• Support for continuing education and credential renewal
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings (401k) with a company contribution
• Mental Health Support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Calm Subscription
• Short and Long term Disability

Job Summary

Responsible for receiving, verifying and properly storing incoming groceries and supplies in a timely manner. Ensures all supplies received are the proper specification and in good condition. Stocks all items and organizes storerooms, walk-in coolers, and receiving area, following first in first out (FIFO) procedures. Responsible for basic utility functions like washing dishes, sweeping and mopping floors, walk-in coolers, and storerooms. Organization are key elements of this job.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Receives all orders from outside vendors including groceries and supplies. Verifies that invoices match deliveries, all items meet standards, and received at the proper temperatures.
• Transports and stores all items in the proper place including dry goods, refrigerated items, frozen items, and paper goods. Rotating stock each time using FIFO stocking method and organizing the walk-in coolers.
• Pulls prepared food for deliveries. Utilize proper containers that meet transportation requirements and box food according to delivery location. Communicates with driver any information required for the daily delivery.
• Performs basic inventory management counts and updates the on hand count before the order date. Notifies director of low stock items to avoid no stock levels on hand.
• Breakdown all boxes and separates for recycling. Ensures receiving areas are is safe, clean, and organized, free of debris, spills and hazards. Ensures empty boxes are disposed of/recycled properly.
• Organizes and cleans storage areas, refrigerators, and freezers on a daily basis. This includes, but is not limited to, sweeping and mopping floors until clean, ensure all food items are off the floor, right face all items for clear sight of label or item, and ensures all items are returned to proper storage space to ensure accurate inventory levels.
• Maintains kitchen equipment throughout the day. Ensures all equipment is wiped down and clean. Escalates any concerns of improperly functioning items to the director for repairs.
• Maintains the dish washing area in a clean, organized, and sanitary manner. Ensures all dishes and storage containers are washed and sanitized before the end of each day. Properly stores all clean dishes in storage area. Being aware of potential cross-contamination hazards. Ensures proper sanitation practices throughout each task preformed.
• Maintains overall cleanliness of the kitchen common areas. This includes, but not limited to, keeping work area(s) clean, keeping the floor free of food/liquid that may be a potential safety hazard, sweep and mop floors before end of shift, gather and remove all trash disposing in proper outdoor receptacles.
• Reports any facility repairs that are required.

Other Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Complete assigned food prep and production list, as needed and for coverage.
• Travel between sites, as needed, to assist with food prep and production and to receive order shipments.
• Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies

• Initiative: recognizes opportunities to act accordingly; responds with action rather than waiting for direction; maintain a level-headed approach in demanding or urgent situations.
• Attention to Detail: processes information efficiently and consistently; maintains focus with working with detailed information; recognizes gaps in information and seeks clarification; monitors and reports discrepancies and concerns
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence.
• Adaptability: Approaches change with a positive mind-set, adjusts behavior accordingly, tries to understand change
• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: Ensures understanding, attentive listener, effectively organizes communication, and exercises patience.

Job Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• At least 1 year working in a food service kitchen required.
• Must be able to perform basic math in relationship to measurements and converting between units required.
• ServSafe Certification preferred or the ability to obtain the certificate within 1 year of employment required.
• Some basic data entry and inventory management experience preferred.
• Some basic food production experience preferred.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 25 pounds and up to 50 pounds.
• Results of background check based on fingerprints must be free of any record of child abuse or moral turpitude

Physical Demands/Work Environment

This job operates in an institutional food service kitchen. This role routinely uses standard kitchen and cleaning equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, bend, climb, push, pull, stoop, twist, stretch, squat, reach and lift up to 50 lbs. regularly from floor to waist level without assistance. This position requires the ability to work in different environments like storage rooms, refrigerators and freezers. Must be able to work on feet for prolonged periods of time.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of The Centers. Since no position description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder's responsibility.

Supervisory

This position does not supervise any position.

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