What are the responsibilities and job description for the Catering Station Attendant - Chef Carver position at City Park Conservancy?
Summary: The Station Chef - Carver is responsible for the preparation and service to guests of assigned menu items during events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned:
SETUP:
- Assists with the unloading of the truck.
- Sets up food station.
- Assures that linens and skirting on station tables are clean, neat, and free of wrinkles. Irons or steams skirting if necessary.
- Inventories all equipment and foodstuffs to assure he or she has all the necessary items to operate the station; reports any missing items to the facility manager.
- Stores all backup equipment and food items under and behind the station, making sure all backup items are out of the visible sight of guests.
- Clears the floor of all excess equipment, boxes, and supplies.
FUNCTION:
- Serves the assigned menu items to all patrons throughout the function.
- Carves individual portions from roasts and poultry using carving knives.
- Slices uniform portions of meat and places meat in a container or arranges individual portions on a plate.
- Ladles gravy or au jus over food and garnishes the plate.
- May weigh sliced meat to ensure that portions are uniform.
- Serves customers.
- Replenishes supplies when necessary.
- Keeps station and surrounding area clean, free from trash and dirty plates and glassware.
BREAKDOWN:
- Packs leftover food for client if requested.
- Cleans all equipment and puts it back in its proper storage container.
- Assures that all clean skirting are properly hung on hangers and properly stored.
- Places all linens (except rentals) in linen bags and transport to truck.
- Places all rental linens in one location to be determined by the function manager.
- Transports equipment and supplies to the truck.
- Breakdown station tables and properly stores them in equipment storage area.
- Sweeps floor of station area.
qualifications and education requirements:
- High School education/GED with one to two years of customer service experience required
- Must possess an active driver’s license.
- Ability to work nights, holidays, and weekends as business dictates.
- Must be able to work outdoors.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to constantly move from one worksite to another, communicate with others to exchange information, use repetitive motions with the wrists, hands, and/or fingers, and utilize utensils and knives.
The employee will be required to occasionally move in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments, remain in a stationary position, often standing for prolonged periods, and assess the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned. The employee may also be required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, pull, grasp, talk, or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus to operate motor vehicles and heavy equipment. The visual acuity required to perform work at or within an arm’s reach in performing mechanical or technical trade tasks. The employee must perceive sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound. The employee will express or exchange ideas using the spoken word, and they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The physical demands will require the employee to regularly lift, adjust, or move objects up to 10 lbs., frequently lift, adjust, or move objects up to 25 lbs., and occasionally lift, adjust, or move objects up to 50 lbs. or more. Must be willing to work a flexible schedule.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions, including wet and/or humid conditions, low and high temperatures, rain and wind, moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud. Hazardous conditions may occur.
Sustainability Goals:
City Park employees must strive to decrease our environmental footprint by continually seeking ways to reduce waste and energy usage, care for natural Park habitat and wildlife, and to serve as models to our patrons to do the same through education and example.
