• Purpose: The Kitchen Assistant is responsible for maintaining a clean work environment and assisting with general food preparation. 
• Status: Reports to Food Services Director
• Customer Service:
• Assists customers with questions in a prompt and courteous manner
• Provide attentive and courteous customer service
• Maintain a polite, friendly and helpful attitude towards internal and external customers
• Product Knowledge:
• Knowledgeable about all products. Continues to learn about new products. Answers questions accurately
• Product Presentation and Quality:
• Ensure quality food preparation, presentation and execution
• Safety:
• Handles all equipment in a safe manner
• Alert to unsafe equipment and removes any equipment that is unsafe from usage
• Teamwork:
• Ensures department teamwork through trust and communication
• Accountability:
• Accepts responsibility for personal decisions and actions. Exemplifies honesty, integrity and ethics
• Contributes constructively to the morale of the department
• Shows initiative in solving issues and achieving the departmental goals
• Job Specific Functions:
• Adhere to established safety and sanitation standards
• Assist in receiving and stocking of supplies
• Daily dishwashing, mopping, sweeping, and other cleaning tasks 
• Assist in food preparation as needed 
• Assist as directed in facilitating meal service, and event set up and breakdown as needed
• Removal of recycling/compost/garbage to the designated areas throughout the day
• Accurately inputting shrink data as needed
• Maintaining clean and orderly work stations
• Adhering to the site code of conduct as defined during training
• Other duties as assigned

• Self-motivated, organized, responsible, flexible
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to understand and follow directions
• Ability to understand and meet standards for health and safety
• Ability to remain alert and focused in an environment that is noisy and fast-paced
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Detail-oriented and thorough

At Brattleboro Food Co-op, we do not just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Brattleboro Food Co-op is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.