Responsibilities & Duties
Kitchen Porter's responsibilities include cleaning, washing pots and pans, keeping floors clean, sanitizing food preparation areas, and occasionally helping with food prep work.
Kitchen Porter Oversight
- Warmly greet all guests, including, but not limited to, visitors, volunteers, vendors, employees, guests, donors; homeless men, women, and children; community groups, church groups, and public officials
- Establish and build healthy Christ-honoring relationships with guests while maintaining professional boundaries, including guest confidentiality
- Maintain an environment of love, grace, dignity and respect
- Prepare kitchen and assist with all inventory needs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner shifts
- Serve meals as directed by the Food Service Manager
- Assure health department standards are being followed
- Assist and oversee assigned volunteers (training, monitoring, evaluating, and general interaction)
- Assist with kitchen cleaning and dish-washing
- Provide weekly reports as directed
- Help put food donations away promptly
- Rotate stock in pantries and freezers as instructed by the Food Service Manager
- Assist with Food Bank donations
- Keep all kitchen work surfaces (counters, sinks, stoves, walls) clean and sanitized
- Sweep and mop floors at the beginning and end of shifts
- Be ready to clean up spills to avoid hindering operations
- Wash cookware, utensils, and cutlery fast to keep them in rotation
- Keep the food and supply storage areas organized
- Take out the garbage
- Help with routine food prep tasks (such as peeling and chopping vegetables) when needed
- Attend staff devotions, community meetings, and staff meetings as directed by the Food Service Manager
- Attend professional training and networking opportunities as directed
- Provide weekly reports as directed
- Perform other duties as assigned
Employment Status:
- Full-time 40 hours per week non-exempt; eligible for paid time off; eligible for benefits
- Flexible schedule with occasional weekends.
Reports to: Food Service Manager
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 1 year of experience in banquet serving, food industry, and inventory oversight
- Proficient organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- Knowledge of quality and health and safety regulations
- ServSafe Certification, a plus
- Professional attitude and appearance
- Ability to prioritize as situations arise to stay within scheduled tasks
- Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
- Must be an Christian, living a life dedicated to Christ, and be an instrument of God’s love, grace, hope, and forgiveness to all
Physical Demands:
- This individual will come in contact with individuals who are ill and/or contagious and must take precautions to ensure the health and safety of everyone.
- Requires frequent sitting, standing, and walking; and lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
Mental Demands:
- The population we serve is typically in crisis. This can cause emotional stress and compassion fatigue. GRM highly promotes employee self-care.
It is the policy of Gospel Rescue Mission to complete a background check, drug test and motor vehicle authorization on applicants in the conditional offer stage.
Gospel Rescue Mission is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit religious organization that provides social service programs to the homeless and working poor populations. Everything we do in this ministry should be centered in the will of God and in honoring the name of Jesus Christ.
