Job Description

Job Title: Porter                                               Reports To:  Executive Chef

FLSA Status:  Non-Exempt                            Department:  Kitchen

Labor Status: Union                                       Approved By/Date: 1/10/2025

Starting Hourly Rate: $18.50/ hour

Community Servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. In addition, we are committed to prioritizing racial and economic justice and health equity in all our programs and business practices. 

We are a dynamic and fast-growing agency at the forefront of the "Food is Medicine" field, providing over 1M medically tailored meals annually to clients and their families experiencing illness and food insecurity in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, our work strongly focuses on supporting the regional local food system, delivering high-quality nutrition education to the community, and hosting an on-site food-service workforce development program. Over the past 34 years, the agency has provided 13M free, scratch-made meals.

The Porter’s main role will be to manage sanitation and organization of kitchen equipment and work areas.  This will be accomplished in a combination of individual effort and by working with volunteers to complete tasks.

Primary Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Porter:  

• Ensures the proper cleaning, sanitation and storage of all small kitchen equipment and dishes.
• Empties trash, compost and recycling when appropriate and replaces can liners
• Ensures floors are swept and mopped nightly.  
• Ensures rotating floor detailing occurs according to schedule
• Assists with in-the-moment cleaning of work and storage areas
• Clears/cleans Community Room after lunch.
• Refills Orange Force and Sanitizer bottles daily
• Refills gloves, paper towels and hand soap at every station in the kitchen daily
• Cleans and maintains dish machine and all other dish room equipment
• Maintains an organized and clean dish room at all times
• Completes assigned cleaning projects in a timely manner
• Performs daily walkthrough check lists
• Performs daily chemical checks
• Other tasks as assigned.

Education:

High School diploma, GED, or equivalent experience. 

Experience

• Comfortable interacting with the public.
• Good communication skills.

Benefits:

We offer a complete benefits program including:

• Medical and Vision Insurance
• Life-, Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time, and Personal Time off
• Flexible Spending account (Medical and Daycare)
• Tuition reimbursement 
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Free Dental Insurance 
• Free daily community lunch
• Free parking 

Physical Demands and Special Work Conditions

This position requires an individual to have the ability to lift to a maximum of 50 lbs. and includes bending and standing for long periods of time.  The incumbent must maintain skills necessary to safely and efficiently operate the following equipment and machines used in the performance of this job:  kitchen equipment (i.e, dishwasher, slicer, coffee machine, steamer, mixer, and chef's knives) and the telephone.

Community Servings knows that diversity drives excellence. We are a place where everyone is welcome. We celebrate, promote, and derive strength from a diversity of lived experiences. We actively seek and encourage an inclusive workforce.

Community Servings participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please refer to the E-Verification Poster (English/Spanish) and Right to Work Poster (English/Spanish) for additional information. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Community Servings is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before any action is taken against you, including terminating your employment. Community Servings can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed Form I-9.