Catering Culinary Assistant

Milwaukee Area Technical College; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Milwaukee Area Technical College seeks part-time culinary support staff to assist with food prep, plating, and serving for campus events. You will ensure safe food handling, maintain clean service areas, and support catering across district locations.

The role emphasizes customer service to students, faculty, and staff, with shifts up to 19 hours per week, typically Monday to Friday between 10 AM and 6 PM. A valid Wisconsin driver’s license is required.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required and 1 year of related experience.
• Current State of WI Driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Assists and/or prepares customer orders: eggs, grill or fryer items, and kitchen prep.
• Prepares food for distribution: plating, servings, and setup of serving lines.
• Provides customer service to students, faculty and staff and handles concerns/ complaints.
• Replaces stock daily and supports catering setup across district locations.
• Delivers catering orders to rooms on schedule and relays messages.
• Maintains inventory records and cleans dishes, tables, and service areas.
• Collaborates with culinary instructors and student workers.

Skills

Kitchen equipment

Hygiene & sanitation

Math skills

Instruction following

Lifting abilities

Customer service

Diversity & teamwork

MS Office

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

None

Job description

Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) is Wisconsin's largest and most diverse technical college, offering 170+ high-quality programs that connect students to a career in as little as one to two years. The college also offers a less expensive path to a four-year degree. MATC is transforming lives, industry and our community by preparing students today for the careers of tomorrow.MATC's diverse team members - 42% of whom are employees of color--work with a purpose to serve the students who make us one of the most diverse two-year institutions in the Midwest. Together, we are meeting the needs of the community we shared and committed to eliminating equity gaps in higher education for both students and employees. We are seeking passionate individuals to join our team who shares the same passion in serving this purpose. Learn more about MATC at www.matc.edu.

• Assists and/or prepares customer orders: including but not limited to: eggs made to orders, items on the grill or fryer, and kitchen preparation.
• Ability to follow recipes and retrieve recipe(s) from electronic data base.
• Assists, follows directions, and performs food prep including but not limited to: cleaning, peeling, cutting vegetables, mixing ingredients, sandwich preparation and food display.
• Prepares food for distribution including but not limited to plating, servings, setting up and maintaining serving line selections.
• Provides customer service excellence while addressing students, faculty and staff concerns and complaints and performs problem resolution; maintains safe and sanitary working conditions.
• Replaces stock regularly on a daily basis.
• Assist in the setup and/or clean-up of catering requests including but not limited to maintaining carts, buffets, and tabling catering functions for all areas throughout the District as needed.
• Delivers catering orders to respected rooms at designated times to various district locations.
• Relays orders and messages as required.
• Establishes, maintains, and enhances positive work relationships with staff, faculty, and administrators.
• Enters product deliveries into register inventory tracking system and assists in inventory counts
• Cleans dishes, trays, pots, pans and other relevant tools and eating equipment and performs routine cleaning.
• Cleans tables and food service areas.
• Practices honesty by demonstrating a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles, values, truthfulness and accuracy in all actions.
• Collaborates in the instruction of culinary students and student workers.
• Performs other related duties within the scope of the position as required for the efficient operation of the division and to support institutional objectives.

Compliance with all state, federal, and accreditation standards/requirements, as well as all MATC policies and procedures.

Required Education & Experience

High School Diploma or G.E.D equivalency required and (1) year of experience in related area

Licenses

Current State of WI Driver's license

Competencies

The ideal candidate cultivates innovation, optimizes work processes, ensures accountability, collaborates effectively, demonstrates interpersonal savvy, communicates effectively, instills trust, maintains a customer focus, is action-oriented, values differences, prioritizes self-development, and shows compassion.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of the use of a variety of commercial kitchen equipment including basic and safe knife skills.
• Knowledge of personal hygiene and sanitation standards and the ability to maintain these standards.
• Skilled at basic mathematical functions and applications.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Physical ability sufficient to lift and move supplies up to 50 pounds and push or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to lift, push, pull or carry objects.
• Ability to walk long distances and stand during entire shift.
• Ability to utilize excellent customer services skills in order to establish and maintain effective working relationships with MATC staff, faculty, students, representatives from outside agencies, business community and the general public.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and promote a positive working environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, students and school personnel.
• Ability to communicate effectively through both oral and written means.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently, collaborate as a team member and some decisions consistent with established rules.
• Ability to access and disseminate information using computers and proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, ability to complete online mandatory in-services.

Physical demands

include the ability to lift up to 25 lbs., carry and push up to 20 lbs., and pull up to 50 lbs. Must be able to climb stairs and a ladder, maintain balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, hear, and speak. The position requires sitting 50% of the time, standing 25% of the time, and walking 25% of the time.

Hours

Individuals may work up to 19 hours per week, Monday to Friday, between 10AM and 6PM. Shifts are subject to change based on departmental needs.

Salary

Salary is listed to the midpoint of the salary range and is determined by years of experience credit and internal salary equity.

EEO/AA

Milwaukee Area Technical College will not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, student, or applicant for admission on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, creed, religion, political affiliation, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, disability, age, membership in any reserve component of the armed forces, union affiliation, arrest and conviction record, or any other protected category under applicable local, state or federal law.

Milwaukee Area Technical College is an Equal Opportunity/Access Educator/Employer operating under an Affiant

If you have a disability and need special accommodation for the application process, please contact our office at 414-297-6529 (Wisconsin Relay System: 711) or email [e-mail]. Women, veterans, and minorities are encouraged to apply.