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| Title: | Food Service |
| Reports to: | Food Service Manager |
| Status: | Full-time or Part-time, non-exempt (hourly) |
| Salary: | Starting $16-$17 per hour DOE |
| Posting date: | May 13, 2025 |
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Overview:
Founded in 1978, Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As a year-round residential environmental learning center, we provide accredited education programs and outdoor adventures to over 16,000 children, adults, and families each year. We are located in rural southeastern Minnesota, just a few miles from the small historic town of Lanesboro in Fillmore County. Through hands-on learning in nature, we aim for people to leave Eagle Bluff with experiences that stick with them and inspire them to become lifelong stewards of the environment. Providing guests with an outstanding food service experience is essential to the success of our programs.
Eagle Bluff provides food service to overnight and day use groups such as schools, summer camps, and adult retreats on both weekdays and many weekends (especially in the summer). Our campus can accommodate 248 overnight guests and on transition days it is not uncommon for the dining hall to serve 500 meals for lunch. Food service is also an important benefit to the 12 staff living onsite and participating in our Fellowship training program. All other staff have the option to eat lunch onsite when food service is served.
Job Summary:
We are seeking individuals who will join our food service team in preparing high quality, healthy food for a wide variety of user groups. Most of our guests are youth (5th-8th graders) who visit our campus for multiple days with teachers and parent chaperones. Our menu must be focused around this age group but also have the ability to satisfy adult guests. It is also essential that we meet the dietary needs of our visitors and staff, which often includes creating balanced, nutritious meals that are non-dairy, vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free.
The culture of Eagle Bluff is centered around continuous improvement, flexibility, problem solving, and solution orientated mindsets. We are seeking team members who embrace these qualities and will ensure all guests are treated in a hospitable and welcoming manner. An ideal candidate will have a variety of life experiences, patience, a sense of humor, and a desire to learn and work hard. A typical work week is 40 hours but work days may fluctuate depending on programming which includes weekends, especially during the summer and fall.
Essential Functions:
- Cook and bake from established recipes
- Maintain a clean and sanitary work space
- Serve meals on the cafeteria line
- Assist with receiving and shelving inventory
- Depending on shift, help open or close
- Staff are occasionally asked to help in other departments
- Represent Eagle Bluff with a positive, helpful attitude
- Help prepare options for guests with dietary restrictions
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to work flexibly and maintain a positive attitude in a dynamic environment with frequent interruptions and regular interaction with staff, students, and parents/guardians.
- Ability to remain calm and professional under stress or heavy workloads, without displaying negative behaviors such as rudeness, inappropriate language, or loss of temper.
- Availability to work flexible hours and schedules, as needed.
- Willingness to respectfully serve a diverse range of guests, including those with various dietary needs.
- Maintains a positive, service-oriented demeanor that supports Eagle Bluff’s public image and community engagement.
- Tetanus vaccination is required, unless exempt due to a medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief (reasonable accommodations will be considered).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in food service or formal training in a wide variety of food preparation and presentation.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
- Stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and talk or hear.
- Reach with hands and arms.
- Be on his/her feet for extended periods of time.
- Squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and reach forward.
- Use hand strength to grasp utensils or carry pots and pans.
- Frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person.
- Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds such as crates, bags or cartons of canned food or fresh produce.
- Sometimes push/pull items such as tables, or bulk food carts.
- Vision requirements include the ability to see clearly at close distances, distinguish colors, notice peripheral movement, perceive depth, and adjust focus.
Work Environment:
- Regularly works indoors.
- Works near or with food preparation equipment.
- Occasionally works with toxic or caustic chemicals, such as degreasers and sprays.
- Must be able to meet deadlines under severe time constraints.
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Apply:
To apply, please complete an application. Applications are available for pick-up at the Schroeder Building or can be downloaded electronically.
Submit your completed application via email to info@eaglebluffmn.org or mail to:
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
Attn: Cheryl Krage
28097 Goodview Drive
Lanesboro, MN 55949
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center does not sponsor work visas. In accordance with federal law, employment is contingent upon completing the I-9 form to verify eligibility to work in the United States. Employment will require the selected candidate to pass all background, criminal record, fingerprinting, reference checks.
Eagle Bluff Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center is an equal opportunity employer that promotes and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
All employees are required to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of their positions. The essential functions listed above are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or other or which impose undue hardship on the organization.
Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.
