Food Truck Chef/Instructor

Community Kitchen Pittsburgh is a 501c3 nonprofit food service company, using food to change lives and strengthen communities. Our primary mission is to provide career-driven, experiential training and paid work experience for adults with barriers to employment to prepare them for meaningful, career pathway jobs in the food service industry. We also provide meals/meal access to vulnerable and struggling individuals and families, and we support food advocacy and food education efforts.

We are seeking a chef who wants to help us grow this business line. This truck will be a training platform for us and an opportunity to grow our reach and reputation. The revenue from this line will support transitional employment and paid training opportunities for people overcoming barriers to employment and seeking careers in food service.

We want a creative business-minded culinarian who is inspired by food and wants to inspire others.

This enterprise will integrate with our other retail and event activities, and we welcome a chef with ideas on how to promote and grow a business that can in turn support, train and motivate trainees so we can help them achieve stability and eventually move into other quality jobs in the industry.

This job WILL involve evenings and weekends –as the more successful the truck the more people we can employ and support into their own career pathway positions. It will also involve positive and non-judgmental supervision and management -- someone who can motivate and inspire with their love of food and the creativity of cooking, but who also understands how to run an effective food business so that we can generate profits to support our mission.

Specific activities to include:

• Produce high quality dishes that level up to location standards, as well as to customer requirements
• This includes working with students in the commissary kitchen for prep and production as well as on-truck food prep and presentation, also at times with students.
• Maintain accurate and up to date food safety, cleaning, and other compliance logs
• Assist with/be able to perform the following
• Opening and closing the food truck, inventory management, stocking, and cleaning before and after business operations.
• Perform window service, including taking food orders and purchase transactions
• Train new staff and students on all aspects of working on the truck
• Brand ambassador/represent Community Kitchen Pittsburgh to students, customers, stakeholders and other staff. At all times maintaining a positive, professional and welcoming demeanor, and being a role model.
• When the Food Truck does not have production / event needs, this position will work on other production to include catering prep, production, delivery and set up; or contract meal production; other events.
• This position involves student training and engagement on topics to include but not limited to how to safely and effectively cook and serve on a food truck, how to engage with customers, how to maintain food safety logs, how to properly label, store food, and transport food, proper cleaning processes, open and closing procedures.
• Must have current ServSafe Managers Certification

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to with “FoodTruck” in the subject line.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. We are a second chance employer. Data shows that women and minority candidates more frequently do not apply to a job because they don’t feel that they meet all of the qualifications listed. Our job descriptions are general overviews, and we recognize that no one candidate is likely to meet 100% of everything included. If you feel passionate about our efforts and believe that you have the skills to contribute to the success of our organization, we want to hear from you!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekends as needed

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person

Salary : $24