Description
We are hiring summer positions for the Potash Hill, Music Festival 2026!!!
For seven weeks each summer; Marlboro, VT forms a closely-knit community of some 65 exceptional young professional musicians and 25 master artists from the U.S. and around the world. The Brattleboro Food Co-op will be providing 3 meals a day on-site at the Potash Hill Campus in Marlboro.
Competitive Wages! 3 free meals provided to staff, up to a $750 completion bonus, free training, free ServSafe certification, BFC store discount. free housing.
Purpose: To prepare excellent quality food in a timely and efficient manner: to accurately follow production lists; to facilitate any and all meal service periods; catering events on site as required; and to actively communicate with staff and coordinators in regards to production.
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:
- Preparation of all menu items promptly and efficiently as assigned
- Facilitating all aspects of service, any catering events, and meals as needed including: maintaining the meal line during service, cleaning, set up and break down, and any to-order station as required
- Ensure and facilitate kitchen cleanliness as needed or assigned
- Ensure that equipment is well maintained, and to notify appropriate personnel of any equipment failures or malfunctions in a timely fashion
- Put away orders – follow receiving protocols as defined in training
- Ensure high quality of products, and quality standards
- Utilization of logbooks, temperature logs, refrigeration logs and other work templates used
- Accurately follow recipes using proper measurements with a mind to menu specific alterations as directed by a supervisor
- Maintain appropriate par levels of product
- Maintain clean and orderly work stations
- Plan and participate in cleaning projects as assigned
- Adhering to the site’s code of conduct as defined during training
- Provide training to new team members as assigned
- Adhere to established safety and sanitation standards
- 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
Requirements
- Self-motivated, organized, responsible, flexible
- Effective communication skills
- Professional cooking experience; 3-5 years practical application. Line work, fine dining, culinary education, and catering production; large scale food service culinary production experience highly preferred.
- Quick and proficient cooking skills, knife work, and an understanding of large scale production
- Ability to lift 50 pounds
- Ability to understand and follow directions
- Ability to understand and meet standards for health, safety, and excellence
- 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.
Keyword: Summer, Catering