Assistant, Lab - Culinary Arts (Hourly)

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Assistant, Lab - Culinary Arts (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

To provide temporary assistance in a lab setting

Job Description:

Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Maintain clean and safe facilities which include organizing materials/supplies.
• Perform minimal clerical duties.
• May assist faculty/students in a lab/classroom setting.
• Prepare and dismantle lab kitchens and speed racks for experiments.
• Complete pre- and post-lab checklists to ensure readiness and cleanliness.
• Restock and organize lab supplies, including staple items, chemicals, and other materials.
• Assist with inventory management and perform light clerical tasks as needed.
• Identify and report malfunctioning or broken equipment to the Senior Lab Technician.
• Provide support to faculty and students by addressing questions or resolving issues during lab sessions.
• Escalate complex questions or concerns to the Senior Lab Technician or Procurement Coordinator when necessary.

Skills

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the job's essential functions can be performed.

• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.
• Demonstrates tact, discretion, and professionalism in all interactions.
• A proactive individual with strong organizational skills, eager to collaborate and contribute as a valuable team member.

Required Work Experience

• Prior food service industry experience.

Special Requirements

• Hold a valid food handler's certificate or food manager certification and must maintain its validity at all times.

Physical Requirements

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 50 pounds.
• Requires long periods of standing and well as walking

Uniform requirements

• Wear a black long-sleeve chef coat (provided by the department).
• Wear durable pants (denim is acceptable; athletic pants are not allowed).
• Use non-skid shoes for safety.
• Hair must be pulled back when working with food.
• Jewelry is limited to a plain wedding band; permanent facial jewelry must be removed in compliance with the Culinary Arts Code of Conduct.
• Earbuds (corded or wireless) are not permitted while on duty.

Pay rate

$23.00/hour

Up to 19 hours per week

• Option 1: Tuesday–Friday, 7:00 AM–1:00 PM
• Option 2: Monday–Thursday, 2:00 PM–9:00 PM

Note: Potential for flexible hours.

Number of Openings:

2

Job Posting Close Date:

October 8, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( [email protected] ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.