Looking for experienced line cooks to service our community! Please email your resume!
Prepare nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals.Work as a team member with other employees to ensure efficient and safe operation of the kitchen and the dining room. Provide exceptional quality food and service to all residents, guests and coworkers by performing essential duties effectively and efficiently.
Qualifications
Have experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking.
Ability to prepare varying quantities of set recipes by converting common measurements and equivalents using addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication.
Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g. patterns of numbers, letters, words, mathematical operations.
Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Meet state or provincial health related requirements.
Maintain Food Handlers permit as required by state or provincial regulations.
Maintain any certifications as required by state or provincial regulations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Maintain resident, employee, and community information in strict confidence (with community management or other employees as necessary).
Carry trays and supplies.
Inspect food preparation and serving areas to ensure observance of safe, sanitary food handling practices.
Wash, peel, cut, and seed fruits and vegetables to prepare them for consumption.
Bake, roast, broil and steam meats, fish, vegetables and other foods.
Regulate temperatures of ovens, broilers, grills and roasters.
Weigh, measure and mix ingredients according to standard recipes using various kitchen utensils and equipment.
Portions arrange and garnish food in a timely manner.
Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling or piercing them with utensils.
Uphold the standards and expectations of food quality and production set forth by Brightwater.
Perform scheduled cleaning, stocking, and rotation and maintenance tasks set by Chef.
Attending scheduled training seminars and staff meetings.
Review menus and Daily Food Production Record for instructions.
Prepare meals that are nutritious, appetizing, and attractive according to Brightwater menus and recipes as well as to physician orders for diet, diet texture, and liquidthickness.
Keeps immediate supervisor promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggests alternative courses of action which may be taken.
Other Job Duties & Responsibilities
Adhere to all community policies and procedures.
Adhere to dress/appearance code.(Changes in attire may be permitted for special circumstances as directed by your supervisor).
Perform all assigned work for the agreed-upon wage, accepting no additional payment or gifts from residents, vendors, or others.
Promote resident advocacy and demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
Serve as a role model for other employees by displaying a responsible, cooperative, respectful, and positive attitude.
Represent the community in the community at large in a professional, courteous, and friendly manner.
Demonstrate ability to perform duties under time constraints and deadlines.
Attend education and training classes as required by state or provincial regulations.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Commitment To Equal Opportunity
Brightwater Senior Living is an equal-opportunity employer and strives to provide an environment in which human dignity prevails. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, perceived race, color, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, creed, religion, age, marital status, family/parental status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, receipt of public assistance, status as a veteran or current or future military status. Brightwater Senior Living does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.