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About the Role

This role involves preparing food from scratch on a large scale, managing daily and weekly production tasks, and ensuring adherence to food safety standards. You will also direct other production employees, manage inventory, and improvise production as needed to meet meal counts.

Responsibilities

• Take proper food and equipment temperatures.
• Prepare food from scratch on a large scale using production sheets and standard recipes.
• Plan daily and weekly production tasks including defrosting, marinating, chopping, pre-cooking, and mixing.
• Direct and assign daily tasks to other production employees.
• Ensure all kitchen procedures for safe food preparation, handling, and storage are followed.
• Review and record waste, inventory, production amounts, and equipment temperatures.
• Improvise in production for filler when meals served exceed the expected count.
• Increase and decrease production according to the numbers to be served.
• Ensure all production is ready by mealtime and maintain supply during service hours.
• Use a variety of kitchen equipment including electric fryer, steamer, slow cooker, gas stove, gas oven, grill, broiler, knives, and mixer.
• Review the presentation of all food for taste, appearance, pairing, display, garnish, and dishware/serving utensils.
• Assess recipes for appropriate flavor, texture, and appearance and adjust as needed under the direction of the Executive Chef.
• Assist in ordering food items needed for future meals.
• Collaborate on nutritional menu planning.
• Keep work surfaces and equipment clean and clear of debris.
• Use commercial strength chemicals to clean, sanitize, and polish.
• Review preparation and serving areas for cleanliness.
• Assist in other areas with food preparation duties as needed.
• Take ownership for the workstation utilizing student employee support.
• Perform any duties assigned based on business needs.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent Preferred
• 3 Years of professional institutional cooking experience
• ServSafe Certification preferred - must be obtained within one year of hire
• Lift once a day to 10 times a week 100lbs
• Stand for entire shift
• Work in varying temperatures: out of doors, coolers, freezers and near heated equipment
• Stoop, Bend, push, pull throughout the shift
• Manipulate small hand tools
• Lift 50 lb. occasionally
• Computing skills to make cash change, take inventory, create # of pieces for a portion by performing adding, subtracting, multiplication and division
• Understanding of HACCP guidelines, food trends, the chemical changes in food when heated, cooled, held and mixed.
• Ability to interact with customers, coworkers, and vendors in a diplomatic manner
• Ability to work effectively as a team member
• Ability to organize and plan resources and workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to read on a level to comprehend recipes, ingredients, instructions, procedures and equipment operation manuals.
• Able to verbally explain multi-step tasks to customers and coworkers.
• Ability to perform a variety of tasks in a variety of locations and determine the order and sequence with limited daily supervisory direction.
• Understanding of common kitchen practices such as knife skills and food identification.

Skills

• Food preparation
• Inventory management
• Food safety standards
• Kitchen equipment operation
• Recipe assessment and adjustment
• Ordering and inventory
• Menu planning
• Cleaning and sanitation
• Teamwork
• Organization
• Planning
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Knife skills
• Food identification
• HACCP guidelines
• Food trends
• Chemical changes in food

Location

• Cortland, NY 13045

Work Type

• Full Time
• 40 hours/week

Experience Level

• 3 Years of professional institutional cooking experience

Education Level

• High School Diploma or Equivalent Preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $18.50 - $18.50 Hourly