Overview
This position prepares meals and oversees activities of the food preparation staff. Employees in this position monitor conditions of work areas and ensure proper stocking and rotation of inventory items.
This position maintains cleanliness and sanitation standards while performing essential functions.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions :
- Monitors food preparation staff in all aspects of meal preparation and maintaining safe, clean, and efficiently operating work areas.
- Determines appropriate substitutions for menu items if necessary.
- Monitors conditions such as sanitation, temperatures, weights, special diet preparation, and equipment functioning.
- Receives deliveries and maintains proper stocking and rotation of inventory items.
- Refills supply areas.
- Provides instruction to food preparation personnel in proper methods, techniques, and time management.
- Retrieves food items from stock areas, freezers, and refrigeration areas.
- Performs food preparation tasks (e.g., washing, chopping, skinning, pureeing, tenderizing).
- Prepares special orders and menu items according to prescribed diets.
- Cooks various foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as applicable to assigned shift.
- Properly labels and stores left over foods.
- Observes personal sanitation procedures (e.g., washing hands, wearing hair nets).
- Acts as a resource to other employees and assists co-workers as needed.
- Emergency duty may be required of the incumbent that includes working in Red Cross shelters or to perform other emergency duties including, but not limited to, responses to threats or disasters, man-made or natural.
Qualifications
Education :
High school diploma or GED required.
Experience :
Two (2) years previous experience or training that demonstrates a variety of cooking skills and the ability to prepare food items according to established methods and procedures required.
30+ days ago