Culinary Associate II - Culinary/Nutrition

Kettering Health; Kettering (OH); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettering Health Main Campus in Kettering, OH, is hiring a Culinary Associate II for the First Shift on a full-time basis. You will manage food preparation, serving, room service, and related paperwork while delivering patient and staff meals with accuracy.

The role emphasizes safe food handling, customer service, and collaboration with kitchen and dish-room staff. Prior food service or customer service experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Able to walk and stand for long periods.
• Able to push and pull wheeled carts.
• Able to communicate effectively and follow oral and written instructions.
• Able to tolerate frequent temperature changes, working around equipment that generates heat, steam and cold.

Responsibilities

• Manages order-taking and preparation, cash register operations, and related paperwork.
• Follows proper hand hygiene and uses gloves for ready-to-eat foods.
• Interacts with patients and internal/external customers, describes coffee drinks and products, and communicates allergens.
• Operates and cleans kitchen equipment including coffee brewers, espresso machine, grill, fryer and scales.
• Dates and monitors food items per FDA dating guidelines and FIFO, minimizing time foods are out of refrigeration.
• Prepares, assembles, serves, cooks, or bakes food and beverages per recipes.
• Handles cash and transactions through MyMicros with small variances.

Skills

Walk/stand long periods

Push/pull carts

Effective communication

Temp changes adaptation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

MyMicros POS

Job description

Job Details

Kettering Health Main Campus | Kettering | Full-Time | First Shift

Job Details

Kettering Health Main Campus | Kettering | Full-Time | First Shift

Responsibilities & Requirements

The Culinary Associate II:

• Accurately manages position paperwork and processes (order-taking and preparation, cash register operations, cash-ups, refrigerator and freezer temperature monitoring forms, food temperatures on serving line, weighing and measuring ingredients, Room Service records, tray time paperwork, Physician Lounge and catering event paperwork for charging, etc.)
• Follows correct hand hygiene procedures (washes hands after handling money and before handling food, uses gloves when handling ready-to-eat foods, etc.).
• Utilizes appropriate scripting and responds to patients/internal and external customers (effectively uses HEAL principle, able to describe coffee drinks and other products, knows ingredients and allergens, responds to internal customers such as Dish Room staff, Supervisors, and to each other in a way that promotes collaboration etc.).
• Effectively and safely uses position equipment, performing applicable cleaning/sanitation procedures (cleans coffee brewers, espresso machine, display equipment, grill, fryer, scales, etc.).
• Correctly date-marks food items, monitors for temperature control and follows First In First Out food storage procedures (uses FDA guidelines for dating, minimizes time TTC foods are out of refrigeration, etc.).
• Prepares, assembles, serves, cooks, or bakes food and beverages per guidelines/recipes
• As assigned, accurately handles cash and manages sales transactions through MyMicros software (routinely is ± $2.00 or less at end of sift, handles credit card and gift card transactions per guidelines, etc.).

Job Qualifications

• Able to walk and stand for long periods of time
• Able to push and pull wheeled carts
• Able to communicate effectively and follow oral and written instructions
• Able to tolerate frequent temperature changes, working around equipment that generates heat, steam and cold

Preferred Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred.

Food Service Or Customer Service Experience Preferred

Key Words: food, nutrition, meal service, food service, room service, chef, sous chef, culinary, food prep

Overview

Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. Our mission is to live God’s love by promoting and restoring health. Our commitment to our patients is to help individuals be their best. With that context, safety is our top priority. We provide an integrated system of healthcare experts committed to providing exceptional care.