Grill Cook Breakfast And Lunch

Position Summary:

• May clean and sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client, and regulatory rules and procedures.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May select recipes per menu cycle, prepare bakery items, receive inventory, move and lift foodstuffs and supply and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food requested by customer, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
• Always provides the highest quality of service to customers.
• May produce food and serve customers at an a la carte station or may operate a grill station.
• Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures.
• Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short and longer preparation time.
• Intermediate to advanced knife skills required.
• Produces small to large batch goods using advanced and full range of classical cooking techniques.
• Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
• Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as assigned.
• Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.
• Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, state, and corporate standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.
• May perform and receive applicable compensation per SCA regulations for other job duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments.
• Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures.
• Prepares foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry, or fish for culinary use.
• Reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Attends work and shows up for scheduled shift on time with satisfactory regularity.
• Must comply with any dress code requirements.
• Willingness to be open to learning and growing.
• Maintains high standards for work areas and appearance.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule helpful.
• Maintains a positive attitude.
• Maturity of judgment and behavior.

• High School diploma, GED or equivalent.
• Knowledge of basic operation of equipment and cash-handling procedures preferred.
• 3 or more years of related work experience.

• Advanced cooking skills.
• Presents self in a highly professional manner to others and understands that honesty and ethics are essential.
• Ability to communicate with co-workers and other departments with professionalism and respect.
• Familiarity with kitchen equipment.
• Ability to adapt procedures, processes, tools, equipment, and techniques to meet the requirements of the position.
• Ability to use a computer.
• Maintains a professional relationship with all co-workers, vendor representatives, supervisors, managers, customers, and client representatives.
• Extensive working knowledge of food preparation.
• Ability to read and follow a recipe unsupervised
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude.

• Ability to reach, bend, stoop, push and/or pull, and frequently lift up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift/move 40 pounds.
• Ability to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 8 hours).
• Significant walking or other means of mobility.
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, with or without corrective lenses.

• Varying schedule to include evenings, holidays, weekends and extended hours as business dictates.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is primarily in a controlled, temperate environment; however, may be exposed to heat of kitchen equipment and cold of refrigerators and freezers, and may be exposed to heat/cold during support of outside activities.
• Generally, work is performed in an indoor setting; however, may participate in outside activities and events.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Wears protective clothing and/or Personal Protective Equipment required by the work environment or governmental regulations

Benefits Eligibility: Full Time Benefits: At Sodexo, we believe every employee should have the resources to be their best. As part of our overall rewards, we offer benefits programs designed to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle including health, dental and vision insurance. Eligible employees can enroll in their benefits, which will be effective beginning on their first day with Sodexo. We also offer other benefits like paid time off, financial and savings programs and access to our employee assistance program and other discounts (eligibility varies by unit and may not be available to all employees).