Kitchen Steward

**Job Profile**

Working in the kitchen, service areas & guest areas, the Kitchen Steward keeps the kitchen spotless to ensure that every plate, fork and glass used are gleaming as well as support the culinary team with daily prep duties.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Assist in preparing food - i.e. cutting up vegetables, preparing side dishes, etc as needed
- Ensuring the Food Service department has adequate levels of tableware and kitchenware
- Keeping dish area neat and clean, assist in the cleaning of the kitchen
- Operate large dishwashing machines
- Clean/sweep/mop kitchen counters, walls, cooling, storage and trash areas
- Scrape/scrub plates, utensils, pots and pans
- Deep-cleaning according to schedule, including bathrooms
- Put away all cooking and serving items
- Assist in taking ongoing inventory of ingredients to ensure nothing is running
- Empty trash; maintain trash area
- Picking up dishes
- Follow Interior Health sanitation procedures
- Late shift focused on thorough deep cleaning of all kitchen areas
- Performs other duties, as assigned, to meet business needs

**Qualifications**
- Experience working in a kitchen is preferred
- Can work with mínimal supervision
- Able to multi-task in a fast-paced kitchen environment
- Ability to take initiative
- Must be willing to work in Kamloops, BC
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada

**Working conditions**
- Fast-paced environment
- Majority of the time consists of working alone
- Loud environment
- Variety of hours
- morning, afternoon, evening, weekends, weekdays, holidays

**Physical requirements**
- Ability to push, pull, reach, bend, stoop and lift to 50 pounds
- Constant standing and walking for a minimum of 4 hours at one time
- Occasional ascending or descending flights of stairs