Part-Time Food Service Worker I

Job Location: Missouri Circuit Courts

Why you'll love this position:

A position with the Missouri Judiciary provides you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. Our positions offer competitive benefit programs, growth opportunities and the ability to work with people in your community.

We are recruiting to fill a Food Service Worker I position to perform food preparation and cooking work in an institutional kitchen. Responsibilites include the preparation of meals for juveniles in a small institution, or under the general direction of a Food Service Worker II in a larger institution. The employee’s duties may also extend to baking and/or planning of menus not requiring the application of professional dietetic principles.

• May prepare meals on a shift in an institutional kitchen; cooks vegetables, and meats, carves meats bakes pastries and makes salads.
• Prepares meals on a household or small group basis; observes menu and ordinary rules of nutrition in preparing well balanced meals; secures supplies and menu items.
• Maintains sanitary conditions in the kitchen; supervises and participates in the cleaning of stoves, cookers, kettles, pots and pans, refrigerators, food grinders and mixers, work benches and tables and other kitchen utensils and surfaces.
• Requisitions and obtains supplies and menu items as needed, and insures quality and quantity of food, supplies and equipment.

Minimum Qualifications

One year of commercial, institutional, or large-scale cooking experience. Condition of continued employment: must be able to test and pass the Missouri food handlers training.

Course work or training in cooking or food preparation may be substituted on a month-for-month basis for the required experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of materials, methods and equipment used in preparing food on a large scale.
• Working knowledge of food values and nutrition.
• Ability to plan menus not requiring the application of professional dietetic principles.
• Ability to cook on a large scale and to plan and prepare meals on a household scale.
• Ability to maintain harmonious working relationships with other employees.
• Ability to work long hours while standing under conditions of high temperature

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck.

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