Food Prep Helper - AK Airlines Lounge (Pay DOE + Benefits) - Anchorage, AK

About the role

This position supports daily food service operations at the Alaska Airlines Lounge located inside the Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, AK. Full-time, part-time, and on-call positions are available.

Responsibilities

• Reviews recipes and product instructions.
• Determines food quantity needs.
• Uses various kitchen tools to prep, measure, mix, cut, season, and store ingredients for cooking and serving.
• Helps prepare hot and cold dishes and stores them correctly, applying food safety and temperature guidelines.
• Checks work areas to ensure service standards are met.
• Logs inventory and orders supplies or equipment when necessary.
• Sanitizes equipment and stations according to NMS, client, and regulatory protocols.
• May sample food for quality control.
• May perform basic cooking tasks, such as cooking vegetables or chicken for salads.
• Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.
• Reports accidents and injuries promptly.
• Follows all company safety and risk management policies and procedures.
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training, and hazard assessments.
• Attends designated training programs (classroom and virtual).
• Prepares serving stations with utensils, entrees, sides, condiments, and other foods.
• Performs general restocking in service zones.
• Serves and restocks food at counters or steam tables (potentially via conveyor belt) and dismantles stations after meals.
• Prepares and serves tea and coffee.
• May restock additional drink stations.
• Cleans dishes, utensils, pots, pans, etc., and places them in assigned storage areas in an organized and orderly manner.
• Maintains a variety of products at certain levels in preparation, serving, or storage areas, including service machines.
• Performs other duties pertinent to the department or unit’s success.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• At least six (6) months of related food service experience.
• Food Handlers Card or ServSafe Certificate (contingent upon 30 days of hire).
• Ability to work rotating shifts and varying schedules, including holidays, weekends, and extended hours as business dictates.
• Must be fluent in speaking, reading, and writing English.
• Ability to pass SIDA Badge test, which includes an assessment of knowledge related to airport security protocols, access control procedures, and safety regulations in secure and restricted areas.
• Ability to obtain an Alaska AOA Badge. To be eligible, applicants must:
  • Successfully pass an FBI fingerprint-based background check.
  • Complete and pass a TSA Security Threat Assessment (STA).
  • Have no outstanding warrants or provide documentation of their resolution.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Weather: Environmentally controlled; requires most or all work to be done indoors, occasionally exposed to outdoor weather.
• Noise level: Moderate to loud.
• Pace of work environment: Medium.
• Customer Interaction: High.
• Environment: Alaska Airlines Lounge kitchen setting.
• Physical requirements: Employee is required to lift and/or move up to 35 lbs. and/or 50 lbs. Frequently to constantly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle or feel, climb, stoop, kneel, crawl, talk/hear, see, taste/smell, and carry weight/lift.
• Travel: None.

Competencies

• Safety guides our behavior.
• Honesty and integrity govern our activities.
• Commitments made will be fulfilled.
• All individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
• The environment will be protected and sustained.