Kitchen Helper

NMS

Kitchen Helper responsible for food preparation and sanitation in a remote kitchen. Working in a 3x3 rotation on the North Slope, AK.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • Alaska • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for maintaining sanitation standards
Performing a variety of cleaning, maintenance, food preparation, stocking, and serving duties in a commercial kitchen, storeroom, dining, and serving area in remote camp locations
Assists cooks and others as needed and coordinates activities within a food service area
Prepare food and cook vegetables, entrees, coffee, sauces, meats, etc.
Maintains a variety of products at certain levels in preparation, serving, or storage areas including service machines
Stocks various food service areas with various products and materials
Cleans dishes, utensils, pots, pans etc. and places in assigned storage areas in an organized and orderly manner
Washes objects by hand or with cleaning equipment
Cleans, sweeps, wipes down, etc. all general dining, kitchen, or storage areas (in some cases), spike rooms, and equipment as well as all floors
Assists with various periodically scheduled large cleaning projects
Removes garbage from assigned areas
Sets up, breaks down, and cleans tables, snack bars, display cases, serving lines, etc.
Notify supervisor if safety and sanitation standards are not being met.

Requirements

What you’ll need

High School Diploma or GED equivalent
At least one (1) year of work experience in a commercial kitchen or documented vocational training sufficient to demonstrate a knowledge of industrial cleaning equipment, restaurant food preparation, and general commercial cleaning processes
Must have or obtain an Alaska Food Workers Card and/or ServSafe Certification upon hire.
Must pass all pre-employment contract requirements which may include but are not limited to: drug test, physical and fit for duty assessment and hearing test
Must be able to cooperate and work as part of a team with fellow employees, customers and clients
Must be able to make decisions in the moment with little to no supervision
Must be able to be on your feet for 12 hours per shift for the scheduled rotation
Must be able to live in dormitory style settings and meet cleanliness requirements of the remote camp.
Contract requires employees to speak, understand, read and write English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Wage DOE & Federal Benefits
3x3 ROT/Housing/Meals

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Hard Skills & Tools

food preparationcleaningmaintenanceindustrial cleaning equipmentrestaurant food preparationgeneral commercial cleaning processescookingstockingserving dutiessanitation standards

Soft Skills

teamworkdecision makingcommunicationorganizationadaptability

Certifications

Alaska Food Workers CardServSafe Certification