IMU DINING (BA-DIMU-IUBLA)

Dining and Hospitality embraces and expands Indiana University's (IU) core values of education, innovation, and tradition which embody the true spirit of Hoosier hospitality.

The Part-Time Cook prepares and serves quality food while following established recipes, food safety regulations, and sanitation standards.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Supports daily kitchen operations by assisting with food preparation, cooking, serving, inventory management, and maintaining a clean and safe work environment while delivering excellent customer service.
• Prepares and serves food items according to standardized recipes and portion sizes.
• Helps to make sure the station is stocked with supplies for the meal.
• Works with standardized recipes, follows instructions to prepare and serve food for their station.
• Performs ware washing and dishwashing tasks as needed.
• Maintains cleanliness and organization of kitchen workstations.
• Follows food safety, sanitation, and hygiene regulations at all times.
• Collaborated with team members to support daily kitchen operations and provide excellent customer service.
• Monitors food temperatures and storage to ensure freshness and safety.
• Works with team leads, sous chefs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and management to help coordinate and execute the preparation of a wide variety of menu items.
• Maintains a positive, professional, and service-oriented attitude in a fast-paced environment.
• Supports special events, catering functions, and other food service operations as needed.

EDUCATION

Required

• General knowledge at high school level.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Preferred

• Some experience in a related field

SKILLS

Required

• Ability to work in a safe and efficient manner.
• Proficient communication skills.
• Ability and enthusiasm to work on a team.
• Positive attitude with a willingness to learn.
• Strong commitment to guest service.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Knowledge of basic kitchen sanitation methods and food safety practices.
• Ability to interpret and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to read and interpret recipes and calculate necessary quantities of ingredients.
• Ability to learn and operate institutional kitchen equipment.
• Ability to coordinate both preparation and timing for menu food items.
• Ability to perform work requiring considerable stationary periods and light-medium physical effort under hot and or humid working conditions.
• Ability to maintain acceptable standards of personal hygiene.
• Ability to review and analyze impending menus to determine appropriate levels for supplies.

This position requires tasks typically associated with back-of-the-house food service work and cleaning/ware washing. It involves periods of both sedentary work and times of frequent movement about the workspace. Using commercial kitchen equipment and tools, moving supplies weighing from 20 - 50 pounds, and effective communication skills are necessary. The role requires the ability to detect items in close proximity as well as far away; discern between colors; detect objects in peripheral space of self; discern items in detail; and to have good depth perception. This role also will work indoors around both hot and cold temperatures and loud noises. This role involves handling meat and plant-based food products as well as a variety of ingredients that may include some or all of the top 9 allergens in the preparation of menu items and during the course of cleaning and ware-washing tasks. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Bloomington, Indiana

$12.75 per hour

Monday - Sunday

Management reserves the right to adjust hours based on business needs.

This positions is capped at 29 hours per week.

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Part Time Employee

FLSA: Nonexempt

Job Function: Part Time Employee

Job Family: Part Time Employee

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