Food Service Specialist - IDEA Harlingen

Overview

Role Mission:
The Food Service Specialist ensures that appropriate quantities of food are prepared, portioned, and served to IDEA students. Other responsibilities include cutting and chopping fruits and vegetables, following recipes, adhering to established kitchen processes, monitoring students during meal periods, encouraging consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, no sharing of food, and kitchen cleaning duties (sweeping, mopping, wiping tables, washing dishes, disposing of trash).

Compensation:

• Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $13.00 for 0 years of experience and $14.95.
• This role is eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.

Other Benefits:

• We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Some of the special benefits IDEA offers include:

• Paid Family Leave:
  Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.
• Tuition Reimbursement:
  Staff members may apply for up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.

Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

• Ability to understand food recipes, safe handling of food and sanitation practices.
• Working knowledge of kitchen/food production procedures.
• Ability to operate kitchen equipment, tools, and utensils.
• Ability to perform basic math skills.
• Works well under pressure in a team setting.
• Ability to lift, bend, pull, push, twist.

• Education:
  
  High School Diploma Preferred but Not Required
• Experience:
  
  1+ years of experience in a job that shows physical activity or requires you to be on your feet for multiple hours a day is required
• This role will require the moving of cafeteria tables daily (due to a shared cafeteria/gymnasium space) and disposal of garbage
• License or Certification:
  Food Handler’s Permit (City of County) preferred

• Possess an interest or passion for working with food
• Have basic knowledge or can quickly learn of food production processes
• Handle cooking, cleaning, restocking and resetting the kitchen for the next day
• Meet the physical demands of the job (lifting, bending, walking, etc.)
• Provide service to students

Understand how to read and execute recipes

• Handle working with medium to large equipment (ovens, slicer, steamer, etc.)
• Have basic math skills that relate to portioning food items in small trays
• Takes pride in food that is prepared and served to the students

Can take direction and feedback well

• Adapt quickly when switching from serving food to washing dishes
• Take feedback well, especially during mid-year and end of year
• Self-reflect and be honest with own performance, and strive to correct mistakes quickly

Can work around or with an academic calendar

• Extended periods of time with no work (e.g., Spring Break, Summer Break, Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break)
• During regular school days, 8 hours per day with some overtime
• Depending on the campus, may need to work on Saturdays

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to take risks and learn by doing
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; comfortable…