Kitchen Assistant

Feb. 28 - Nov. 23, 2025

YMCA Camp Hanes is seeking kitchen assistants to help prepare meals and serve campers during spring, summer and fall sessions. Primary responsibilities include: 

• Prepare foods to specifications before said meal times
• Washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and cooking foodstuffs (18 and older), and helping prepare salads and desserts
• Ensuring all areas of the kitchen, food prep area, and food storage areas are cleaned and properly sanitized.
• Washing dishes, cooking equipment, cleaning floors, sanitizing countertops, and cutting boards
• Disposing of trash
• Organizing linen laundry
• Maintaining all areas to health code standards
• Understand the importance of health and hygiene
• Ability to listen and the willingness to learn
• Help accommodate guests with food allergies or a specific diet concern

Pay depends on experience and qualifications.

Schedule -- Two separate shifts: First (6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.); Second (3 p.m. to 9 p.m.). Some required weekend work, flexibility in scheduling. Up to 40 hours per week in the summer (all positions are part-time seasonal). 25-30 hours per week during the spring and fall when groups are in session.

• Minimum age 16
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds
• Online training required
• First Aid/CPR/Oxygen certifications required (will offer classes free of charge)
• Drug/Background Check
• ServSafe or NC Safe Plate certifications preferred, but not required