Food Services Assistant

3 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada Conrad Grebel University College Full time

**Conrad Grebel University College**
- Food Services Assistant_

**Reports to**:Food Services Manager

**Grade & FTE**: USG 1, 0.5 FTE

**Starting Salary**: $19.25/hour, potentially higher with related experience

**Start Date**:September 5, 2023

**Evening/weekend work required**

Conrad Grebel University College is a liberal arts college founded by the Mennonite church and affiliated with the University of Waterloo. The mission and programs of Grebel are rooted in and inspired by its Christian identity and its Anabaptist/Mennonite heritage. Grebel offers undergraduate, graduate, and community education programs in peace and conflict studies, music, theological and religious studies, and Mennonite studies. It also has a residence, which houses 174 university students. Grebel is also home to the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement (CPA).

**General Scope**

Working together with the Grebel Food Services staff, under the direction of the Food Services Manager, the Food Services Assistant (FSA) is required to perform a variety of tasks including: dishwashing, floor cleaning, bag lunch making, preparing vegetables and fruits, and cleaning the dining room.

**Departmental Data**
- Currently the college has 2 full time, and 7 part time cooks (5.8 fte) and 5 part time food service assistants (3.8 fte).
- The Food Services team prepares 15,396 meals annually for residence students plus an additional 960 meals to off campus residents in the fall term.
- We annually prepare/serve at least 188 snack nights to residents and associates, 36 community suppers, 3 term end banquets, 1 convocation reception for 500 people, 1 Taste of Grebel BBQ for 450 people, and 1 move in day luncheon for 450 people.
- We provide $75,000 worth of meals/refreshments to the summer conference program.
- Grebel’s annual food services expenses budget is $1,076,000 (17/18).
- Internal and external sales (495 events for 15,000 guests in 2016-2017), summer conferences, meal tickets, meal plans, associate community supper and snack nights, and cash register sales annually contribute $228,000.

**Specific Responsibilities**

**1. Food Preparation and Service**
- Performing dishwashing routines (clearing, sorting, rinsing, washing using the dishwasher or manually at pot sink, putting away)
- Preparing items for salad bar and setting up salad bar prior to meal service
- Preparing fruit tray, fruit salad, fresh or canned fruit for lunches
- Preparing vegetable, fruit or cheese trays for functions
- Preparing bag lunches and deli bar items
- Refilling items in serving line
- Assisting cooks with preparing items for lunches and suppers
- Putting food away and cleaning up cafeteria serving line
- Assisting with setting up and cleaning up special functions
- Sweeping and mopping kitchen floors
- Vacuuming dining room floor and wiping tables
- Performing routine housekeeping tasks within the kitchen and dining room
- Safelyoperating commercial kitchen equipment including meat slicer, potato peeler, mixers, dishwasher, and flat top
- Following safe food handling procedures, avoiding cross contamination

**2. Planning and Organization**
- Managing time efficiently to meet multiple hard deadlines throughout the day
- Scaling food preparation to appropriate quantities depending on changing daily needs
- Assisting in inventory control, advising Food Services Manager when supplies are needed
- Participating in bi-weekly Food Services Department meetings and bi-monthly safety meetings
- Attending monthly staff meetings
- Providing guidance to student workers
- Adapting to last minute requests from students, staff, faculty or guests

**3. Cleaning**
- Responsible for providing and maintaining a high standard of cleanliness and organization of work spaces, refrigerators/freezers and store room
- cleaning and sanitizing food preparation and service areas,
- cleaning and sanitizing commercial kitchen equipment
- deep cleaning of kitchen at end of term
- Emptying garbage, recycling and compost containers into outside bins

**4. Safety and Security**
- Assisting with procedures critical for safety and security such as responding to fire alarms and locking/unlocking doors
- Ensuring all chemicals are labelled and stored properly in a safe condition
- Placing wet floor signs as needed
- Using appropriate transportation methods when moving containers of hot product
- employing proper knife handling skills to protect self and co-workers
- working in a safe manner and using protective equipment as needed
- participating in monthly safety inspections
- fostering a healthy work environment that adheres to the College’s health and safety practices as well as the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

**Support and Collaboration**
- working collaboratively with Food Services staff to complete daily/weekly tasks, including covering absences of other cooks/FSAs
- performing other related duties as assigned
- making recommendations that contribute to the success of

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