Solution Tree Jobs in Santa Rosa, CA (NOW HIRING)

Description

SUMMARY OF POSITION

The Prep Cook / Dishwasher supports daily kitchen and seafood production operations through food preparation, sanitation, dishwashing, and receiving. This role ensures a clean, organized, and efficient kitchen while assisting with seafood processing and prep tasks.

This is an entry-to-mid level kitchen position ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on work, early mornings, and learning seafood production skills.

GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This position requires flexibility and the ability to perform a variety of tasks in a fast-paced environment.

The duties listed are representative but not exhaustive. Management reserves the right to modify duties

and assign additional responsibilities as needed to meet operational or business demands.

Dishwashing & Sanitation

• Wash dishes, pots, pans, utensils, and production equipment
• Maintain clean and sanitized workspaces
• Follow all health and safety standards
• Manage trash, recycling, and compost

Food Prep & Production Support

• Perform basic prep including chopping, cutting, peeling, portioning, and packaging
• Assist with seafood processing and simple fish prep tasks
• Use knives safely and efficiently
• Follow recipes and production instructions

Receiving & Organization

• Assist with receiving deliveries and storing product properly
• Label, date, and rotate inventory using FIFO practices
• Keep storage areas organized

Kitchen Support

• Maintain clean prep stations
• Restock supplies throughout shifts
• Support cooks and production staff as needed

Communication

• Use email or basic systems to communicate with team leads
• Report maintenance or inventory needs promptly

GOALS

• Deliver consistently excellent and tasty food that makes customers happy to be here and return using local, seasonal and sustainably-produced products adhering to Seafood Watch standards. 
• Foster teamwork and a sense of camaraderie; Create and maintain a happy, comfortable, respectful, cooperative and collaborative workplace.
• Familiar with all kitchen work stations, able to work any station at a moment's notice
• Learn, model, and convey Hog Island Values and Guiding Principles in the daily work environment.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 6+ months kitchen, dishwashing, or food prep experience preferred
• Basic knife skills and willingness to learn seafood processing
• HACCP or seafood handling knowledge a plus
• Ability to work weekends and holidays

1. Ability to work under pressure and deal with stressful situations during busy periods; 
2. Ability to communicate clearly and respectfully with staff and management (bi-lingual a plus)
3. Must be consistently proactive, punctual, organized, efficient, solution oriented, and positive; 
4. Familiarity with Kitchen SOPs and safety practices

• Strong attention to cleanliness and organization
• Ability to follow instructions and work efficiently
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Comfortable working around water, seafood, and cleaning chemicals
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced kitchen
• Seafood experience a plus but not required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employees are regularly required to talk and hear. 
• Employees regularly stand for long periods of time.
• Employees are frequently required to walk, bend, stoop, reach, and use their hands to grasp, handle and feel with delicate dexterity. 
• Repetitive cutting, gripping, and knife use
• Exposure to seafood, ice, water and cleaning chemicals
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• Regularly requires working taste buds with the ability to smell, taste, recognize, and discern the subtle differences of ingredients and flavors.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. 

• The noise level is high, typical of a restaurant environment and workspace is shared with other staff and customers.
• The work environment is fast paced and frequently changing; interruptions are considered normal.
• Moderate exposure to physical risks such as operating dangerous equipment, sharp knives, or working with sanitizing chemicals.
• Constant exposure to possible food allergens such as milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, and soy.
• Constant exposure to unusual elements such as extreme temperatures both hot and cold, wet floors, open gas flame, fumes, smoke, grease, and strong odors.
• Chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in foods or beverages sold or served here.

PLEASE NOTE: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the Prep Cook / Dishwasher position and it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.