Prep Cook, Culinary Team

The Prep Cook works as part of the culinary team to serve breakfast, lunch, and snacks for 350-1350 students and staff each day. Experience is preferred, but candidates with potential are willing to be trained. The position requires maintaining strict standards of physical and food safety, freshness, and sanitation.

Requirements

• Fundamental understanding of sanitation and cleanliness
• Knowledge of commercial kitchen and equipment
• Moderate physical effort, including standing, carrying, bending, stretching, stooping, pulling, pushing, lifting of weights up to 50 lbs
• Effective communication skills
• Self-motivated and able to problem solve effectively
• Food Handler's certification preferred
• Multi-faceted, multi-skilled, resourceful, and willing to do whatever it takes to serve high quality food to our school communities
• Model positive and healthy character traits and habits, such as being organized, consistent and understanding
• Unwavering commitment to the KIPP mission, students, families, and community
• Clear, authentic and transparent sense of strengths and areas of growth as a professional
• Desire to continuously learn and increase effectiveness as a professional

Benefits

• Robust medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 50% match after 6 months
• Generous Time-Off aligned with the school calendar
• Up to 12 weeks of 100% parental leave
• Bright Horizon Back-up Child and Elder care
• Employer-paid Life Insurance and Short-term / Long-term disability
• 8-week paid Sabbatical after 10 years
• Annual professional development funds
• Tuition reimbursement