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** Kitchen Production Assistant**
** | Taneytown, MD, United States**
Posted Date 2/03/2022 Description **Kitchen Assistant**
**Position Description:**
Assisting with an array of duties that take place in the kitchen. The Baker will be given specific tasks to complete in an efficient, timely, safe manner.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
The Kitchen Production Assistant will work closely with the kitchen team to ensure products are created and packaged to regulatory compliance in a time efficient manner.
**Responsibilities:**
* Effectively follows procedures for food preparations, production, packaging, and controls
* Works with the kitchen team with hands on tactics while following production processes and schedules
* Works with Processing and Packaging to prepare and package products according to the company's internal schedule and within food safety standards and regulations.
* Requires a flawless understanding of food safety standards and professional hygiene.
* The appropriate use of scales will be necessary to ensure consistency of the cannabis-infused portion of the product and for portion control.
* Ensures that ingredients are ready for use each day.
* Maintaining inventory records of supplies, materials, and equipment.
* Storing supplies and equipment, disposal of waste according to guidelines, and keeping the kitchen working areas immaculate.
* Assisting with maintaining material safety data sheets for all department chemicals and products.
* Maintaining highest level of compliance.
**Skills:**
* Strong organizational skills are mandatory; required to turn out large quantities of product under tight time constraints.
* Excellent math or computer skills to calculate recipes and to produce the correct quantity of finished product.
* Health and safety practices and precautions applicable to a kitchen.
* Proper and safe handling and disposal of harmful chemicals, substances, and hazardous wastes.
* Record keeping procedures.
**Physical Requirements:**
* Must be able to perform repetitive techniques accurately and consistently.
* Must be able to stand for long periods of time, along with frequent bending.
* Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less),
* Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, work with fingers.
* Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and push up to 100 pounds with assistance.
**Requirements:**
* 3-5 years' experience working in food preparation in restaurant or hospitality environment preferred but not required.
* Experience cooking with cannabis preferred but not required.
* Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
* Good organizational skills to maintain the highest level of productivity.
* Recognize time constraints and effectively execute fulfilling market demand in a timely manner.
* Creative and positive attitude.
* Must be at least 21 years of age.
* Ability to pass a comprehensive background check through the State of Maryland.
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