26-27 Food Service Worker

Duchesne LinkedIn group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart is hiring a Food Service Worker in Houston, Texas. The role involves ensuring joyful service delivery and quality food presentation while engaging with students, faculty, and staff.

Applicants should have a high school diploma and food service experience is preferred. The position requires strong customer service skills, effective communication, and the ability to work in a team. Essential duties include food preparation, compliance with safety standards, and general cleaning.

Qualifications

• Energetic and committed to the school’s mission.
• Previous food service experience in healthcare, hotel restaurant, or fast food is a plus.
• Fluency in English is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Perform prep work such as washing, peeling, cutting, and seeding fruits and vegetables.
• Engage children while serving in an outgoing, friendly manner.
• Comply with nutrition and sanitation guidelines.

Skills

Strong customer service skills

Team player

Effective communication skills

Time management skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary

The Food Service Worker is the first point of contact for Duchesne students, faculty, and staff, ensuring joyful service delivery, quality food, and appetizing presentation. The successful candidate must be willing to work any hours from 7:00am to 4:30pm, as well as after-hour and weekend events.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform prep work such as washing, peeling, cutting, and seeding fruits and vegetables.
• Utilize approved recipes and production standards to ensure proper quality, serving temperatures, and standard portion control. Notify cooks if food temperatures are not within acceptable limits.
• Engage children while serving in an outgoing, friendly, and efficient manner to help guide them to build a nutritional meal.
• Carry pans, kettles, and trays of food to and from workstations, stove, and refrigerator in accordance with safety standards.
• Store food in designated areas following wrapping, dating, food safety and rotation procedures.
• Set up stations for serving on hot and cold lines.
• Perform general cleaning duties to include moving compost and garbage to designated areas.
• Work in school’s coffee shop, Cha Cha’s.
• Comply with nutrition and sanitation guidelines.
• Perform other duties assigned.

Minimum Education / Prior Experience / Qualifications Required

Successful candidates are energetic, high-performers, committed to the school’s mission, who impress us with their drive, joy, initiative, and ability to work productively under multiple deadlines, where unanticipated external and internal events can shift priorities.

• High school diploma or equivalent (one year of experience in lieu of education)
• Previous food service experience in healthcare, hotel restaurant, or fast food is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is a plus

Core Competencies

• Strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
• A team player and effective communication skills.
• Patient with the ability to stay positive under pressure.
• Strong time management and organizational skills to be able to manage a heavy workload.
• Ability to work alone and on a team.

Upon Hiring

• Successful completion of criminal offender record information and sexual offender registry information checks.
• Complete Food Handlers training/certification within 30 days of employment (valid Texas Certified Food Manager License in lieu of Food Handlers Certificate).
• Successful completion of CMG Safe Environment Training.
• Current CPR certification.

Physical Demands

Frequent pushing, pulling, or lifting 10 or more pounds. Frequent and various back, forth, up and down movement; ambulate across dining hall and other food service areas to clean tables, benches, utensils, equipment, and appliances. Ability to communicate information so others will understand; follow instructions; determine that areas, equipment, and utensils are sufficiently clean and safe and in compliance with school and state standards; observe small objects up close; remain stationary for long periods of time; tolerate extreme temperatures.

Essential Expectations

All faculty and staff members at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart are expected and required to do the following:

• Overtly support and act in accordance with Goals and Criteria of the Society of the Sacred Heart; this expectation includes attendance at and applicable participation in faith-based practices.
• Foster a safe, predictable, and supportive environment.
• Interact with colleagues in a respectful and collegial manner that contributes to a healthy school culture.
• Demonstrate appropriate planning and preparation and fulfill routine responsibilities in a thoughtful and timely manner.
• Uphold professional standards of personal presentation, professional courtesy, discretion, punctuality and attendance at all required meetings and events.
• Appropriately carry out specific duties as determined by the Head of School and/or supervisor.
• Maintain professional credentials and complete required training. Participate in and provide documentation for at least one professional development opportunity per year in addition to those required and provided by the school.
• Respect the confidentiality of the school, its employees, students, and families.
• Comply with the policies and procedures as articulated in the faculty and staff handbook.
• Authentically engage in the school’s self-reflection process that requires written goals and measured progress towards them.

Nothing in this Job Description restricts Duchesne’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time. This position is at will, which means that either the employee or Duchesne may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without notice and for any reason or no reason.

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of its employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (gender), age, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.