Central Kitchen - Kitchen Assistant Full Time

Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

VOA Northern California & Northern Nevada is seeking a Kitchen Assistant Intern for the Central Kitchen in downtown Sacramento. This full-time role supports preparing, packaging, and delivering meals to seniors, veterans, families, and shelter residents.

Responsibilities include safe food handling, sanitation, stocking, helping cooks with meal prep, and serving at the food line. Experience in a kitchen is preferred; a High School Diploma or GED is required, plus Food Handler’s License.

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen environment is required.
• Ability to communicate and comprehend oral and written instructions.
• Food Handler’s License required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare sandwiches and meals for daily service.
• Assist cooks with meal ingredient prep including washing, cutting, and chopping.
• Maintain sanitation, safety, and hygiene in all kitchen areas.
• Organize and store food supplies; unload delivered goods.
• Help set up and serve the food line and assist with bus tables.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Fast-paced

Organization

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

WHO WE ARE

We are more than a nonprofit organization. We are a ministry of service that includes nearly 600 paid professional employees dedicated to helping those we serve. We provide compassionate care today for flourishing communities tomorrow. Founded locally in 1911, VOA Northern California & Northern Nevada is one of the largest providers of social services in the region, delivering a broad range of community-based services that transform lives while meeting immediate needs of families, individuals, veterans, seniors, and youth. In fact, VOA-NCNN provides shelter or housing to over 3,500 men, women, and children every night.

OUR MISSION

VOA puts faith into action by providing compassionate human services to empower individuals and strengthen communities. VOA aspires to create a world in which every person lives a life of emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, filled with hope across Northern California & Northern Nevada.

PROGRAM AND LOCATION

VOA, a Certified Great Place to Work, is recruiting for a Kitchen Assistant Intern for our Central Kitchen team in downtown Sacramento, CA. This is a Full Time position. Every day the Central Kitchen staff prepare, package, and deliver more than 1,000 warm, nutritious, made-with-love meals to fragile seniors, veterans, families, and shelter residents.

OBJECTIVES/ACTIVITIES

• Responsible for performing daily work requirements to achieve established objectives of the program.
• Perform duties in safe and sanitary manner, using food handling and proper preparation techniques.
• Perform proper safety procedures for all equipment used in a kitchen.
• Proper cleaning and sanitizing all food preparation areas according to established standard of hygiene.
• Wash and appropriately store all cooking appliances, instruments, utensils, cutting boards, and dishes.
• Sweep and mop the kitchen floors and dining room, wipe down kitchen walls.
• Maintain stock and inventory.
• Prepare sandwiches.
• Assist Cooks with the preparation of meal ingredients, which includes washing, cleaning, peeling, cutting, and chopping fruit, vegetables, poultry, and meat.
• Assist with unloading of delivered food supplies.
• Organize and correctly store food supplies.
• Promptly transfer meal ingredients from storage areas to the kitchen per the Cook’s instructions.
• Help set up and serve the food line, take food trays to the Handicapped and bus tables.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Experience assisting in a kitchen environment is required. This position requires demonstrated ability to communicate and comprehend oral and written instructions and to provide services to clients without ethnic or social prejudices. General knowledge of issues and challenges unique to homelessness, substance abuse, young adults, minorities, and persons with disabilities is preferred. Specific knowledge and experience with the following are required

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Familiarity with kitchen sanitation and safety measures used in the operation, cleaning, and care of utensils, equipment, and work areas.
• Food Handler’s License.

SPECIFIC SKILLS REQUIRED

• Ability to work with a team
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to stand for long periods of time
• Lift and move up to 20 pounds
• Stand, walk, bend, stoop, and sit frequently