Elizabethtown College
Posting Details
Position Information
Job Title
PM Lead Cook
Job Description
Elizabethtown College is currently seeking a PM Lead Cook for DIning Services.The primary purpose of this position is to ensure quality service and food production for all guests.
Job Duties
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Lead and monitor the preparation of all food and beverage items and cooking activities of foodservice personnel.
• Assign foodservice personnel, including student staff, to specific duties and direct food preparation and activities in a manner to utilize their culinary skills.
• Oversee and record inventories in all retail locations to ensure that menu and convenience store items are available for daily specials, for regular menu items and for the number of customers served
• Operate the cash register as needed
• Tear down, clean, and sanitize, and reset the Jays Nest at the end of the night for the following morning.
• Prepare consistent, high quality hot food items
• Utilize knives, cooking utensils, and all kitchen equipment effectively
• Maintain highest levels of safety and sanitation at all times
• Maintain sanitation, production, and equipment records as required
• Maintain optimum station coverage at all times - cover for co-workers' breaks
• Train student personnel and communicate regularly regarding updates, shift or staffing issues and retraining needs
• Work closely with student employees, delegating and following up on assigned duties.
• Rearrange and cover areas needed as necessary during student staffing shortages
• Ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Other duties as assigned
NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Attend department meetings and participate in decision-making
• Assist other areas within dining services
• Attend conferences to further education
• Conduct all responsibilities in a safe manner according to regulations (OSHA, EPA, etc.)
OTHER SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND/OR TRAINING
• Ability to work extended hours as needed
• Ability to work weekends
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work within strict deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills and desire to be a team player
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Excellent oral communication skills (i.e. ability to deal effectively with others, speak professionally on the phone, etc.)
• Ability to use a multi-line phone system
• Previous supervisory experience is helpful
• Ability to read and communicate in English
Required Qualifications
High school diploma or GED is required.
Associate's degree from an accredited culinary institute is preferred; plus two years of food service experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
For full consideration, please include cover letter, resume and contact information for (3) references.
Preferred Qualifications
Physical Demands
• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time
• Regularly required to walk about
• Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing, crouching, or running
• Regularly required to reach up and out with hands and arms
• Regularly required to talk and hear; verbally express information or instructions
• Regularly required to use hands to grasp objects, type, pick up objects, move objects, or hold objects
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• Regularly required to climb stairs and/or ladders
• Occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds and carry a distance of 10 feet
• Occasionally required to push and/or pull up to 50 pounds a distance of 10 feet
• Regularly required to stand for long periods of time
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
AS668P
Open Date
04/03/2025
Close Date
Open Until Filled
Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants
About Elizabethtown College
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,800 students more than 75 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its commitment to "Educate for Service," Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives, and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose and leadership as global citizens. For more information, consult .
Elizabethtown College is committed to valuing and fostering the diversity reflected in our life together and in the world beyond our campus. We strive to ensure that the members of the community-students, faculty, staff, and administrators-are diverse in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, age, and national origin. We also seek to provide our community members, especially our students, with educational opportunities, programs, and services that are multicultural in content and expressive of a diverse life of experiences and worldviews that underrepresented groups bring to the learning environment.
Status
Hours Per Week
40 hours per week, 12 month position
Work Schedule
Thursday - Monday 4:00pm - 12:30am *Subject to change based on business needs
Salary per hour
$19.00-$19.50/hr. PLUS shift differential
Annual Salary
Position Information
Job Title
PM Lead Cook
Job Description
Elizabethtown College is currently seeking a PM Lead Cook for DIning Services.The primary purpose of this position is to ensure quality service and food production for all guests.
Job Duties
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Lead and monitor the preparation of all food and beverage items and cooking activities of foodservice personnel.
• Assign foodservice personnel, including student staff, to specific duties and direct food preparation and activities in a manner to utilize their culinary skills.
• Oversee and record inventories in all retail locations to ensure that menu and convenience store items are available for daily specials, for regular menu items and for the number of customers served
• Operate the cash register as needed
• Tear down, clean, and sanitize, and reset the Jays Nest at the end of the night for the following morning.
• Prepare consistent, high quality hot food items
• Utilize knives, cooking utensils, and all kitchen equipment effectively
• Maintain highest levels of safety and sanitation at all times
• Maintain sanitation, production, and equipment records as required
• Maintain optimum station coverage at all times - cover for co-workers' breaks
• Train student personnel and communicate regularly regarding updates, shift or staffing issues and retraining needs
• Work closely with student employees, delegating and following up on assigned duties.
• Rearrange and cover areas needed as necessary during student staffing shortages
• Ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Other duties as assigned
NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Attend department meetings and participate in decision-making
• Assist other areas within dining services
• Attend conferences to further education
• Conduct all responsibilities in a safe manner according to regulations (OSHA, EPA, etc.)
OTHER SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND/OR TRAINING
• Ability to work extended hours as needed
• Ability to work weekends
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work within strict deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills and desire to be a team player
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Excellent oral communication skills (i.e. ability to deal effectively with others, speak professionally on the phone, etc.)
• Ability to use a multi-line phone system
• Previous supervisory experience is helpful
• Ability to read and communicate in English
Required Qualifications
High school diploma or GED is required.
Associate's degree from an accredited culinary institute is preferred; plus two years of food service experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
For full consideration, please include cover letter, resume and contact information for (3) references.
Preferred Qualifications
Physical Demands
• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time
• Regularly required to walk about
• Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing, crouching, or running
• Regularly required to reach up and out with hands and arms
• Regularly required to talk and hear; verbally express information or instructions
• Regularly required to use hands to grasp objects, type, pick up objects, move objects, or hold objects
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• Regularly required to climb stairs and/or ladders
• Occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds and carry a distance of 10 feet
• Occasionally required to push and/or pull up to 50 pounds a distance of 10 feet
• Regularly required to stand for long periods of time
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
AS668P
Open Date
04/03/2025
Close Date
Open Until Filled
Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants
About Elizabethtown College
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,800 students more than 75 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its commitment to "Educate for Service," Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives, and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose and leadership as global citizens. For more information, consult .
Elizabethtown College is committed to valuing and fostering the diversity reflected in our life together and in the world beyond our campus. We strive to ensure that the members of the community-students, faculty, staff, and administrators-are diverse in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, age, and national origin. We also seek to provide our community members, especially our students, with educational opportunities, programs, and services that are multicultural in content and expressive of a diverse life of experiences and worldviews that underrepresented groups bring to the learning environment.
Status
Hours Per Week
40 hours per week, 12 month position
Work Schedule
Thursday - Monday 4:00pm - 12:30am *Subject to change based on business needs
Salary per hour
$19.00-$19.50/hr. PLUS shift differential
Annual Salary