Dining Commons Manager - Fortson

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This position requires frequent night and weekend work in addition to a typical Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm work week.

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Requires at least a baccalaureate degree in the field. Please contact your Human Resources office for an evaluation of education/experience in lieu of the required minimum qualifications.

This is a responsible position at Fortson 4-H Center in Hampton, GA providing direction and leadership to a staff of up to 6-part time employees preparing, serving, and cleaning up after providing meal service to customers. The dining hall serves as many as 150 people at a time. The individual in this position will be responsible for all aspects of dining hall operation while meeting or exceeding all health code standards.

Frequent evening and weekend work.

*Ability and desire to provide food service for large groups of people. *Ability to effectively supervise employees. *Ability to communicate with a diverse client base; young children to adult. *Ability to work long hours, on feet in hot commercial kitchen. *Ability to work without direct supervision.

Extended long hours in a hot commercial kitchen. A lot of time standing, preparing, serving, and cleaning up after meals. Moving large cases of canned goods, etc. weighing as much as 40 lbs. Driving.

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Lead employees as a participant in all aspects of food service including preparation, cooking, serving, and cleaning up.

Provide effective supervision of dining hall staff in safe food handling, proper preparation, cooking, and serving of food. Provide effective supervision and performance evaluations to employees providing food service to customers.

Develop and manage healthy menu items that are good tasting and cost effective. Provide same level of food service for those guests that have diet restrictions.

Stocks inventories and monitors food supplies; prepares food order recommendations for the Center Director's review and purchase.

Communicate with administrative staff in order to prepare proper amounts of food and effective customer service in all dining hall operations.

Provide effective and appropriate training to seasonal staff members on how best to provide support to kitchen staff when doing KP, or other dining hall support work. Interview, hire, and train seasonal dining hall workers as needed.

Other duties as assigned to maintain facilities outside of the Dining Hall including but not limited to maintenance tasks, housekeeping (cleaning of dorms and buildings), clerical work and other tasks as requested by the Center Director."