Driver Assistant cum Kitchen Helper

Reporting To: Executive Chef

Direct Reports: No Direct Report

Reporting to the Executive Chef of the assigned pre-school and working closely with the Kitchen Team, this position will be responsible for maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen and to be responsible for the preparation and cooking of a well-balanced and nutritious children's menu for morning snacks, lunch and afternoon snack.

Job Role & Responsibilities

• Maintain food safety and sanitation standards.

• Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing and mixing ingredients

• Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh

• Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry and other foods

• Present, garnish and arrange final dishes

• Occasionally serve food

• Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment and dishes

• Handle and store ingredients and food

• Ensure food is hygienically stored and food storage areas are kept clean.

• Ordering stock in line with requirements, keeping accounts and budget control

• Maintaining correct stock levels, ensuring stock rotation and ensuring all stocks are clearly labeled to include expiry dates.

• Ensure all kitchen equipment are cleaned before and after use.

• Keeping track freezers and refrigerators at the correct temperature.

• Adhere to the Health Promotion Board Guidelines during the preparation, cooking and serving of all food.

• Ensuring the effective and regular removal of waste materials to the designated waste bins.

• Any other Ad-Hoc duties given by superiors

Requirements:

• Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness

• Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes

• Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, dishwashers, management and sometimes school staff.

• Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment

• Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike

• Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant

• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing

• Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle extreme heat and work shifts

• Must have at least 2 years of relevant cooking experience, preferably in pre-school or childcare setting

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Able to work well independently as well as within a team

• Able to do basic calculations.

• Posses a class 3 driving license

• Minimum 1 year of driving experience

• Familiar with Singapore road

• Able to carry heavy loads.