Seeking An Experienced Cook - $25/Hour, Benefits Eligible On Day 1!

UNIT DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking an experienced Cook to join our busy Commissary Kitchen operation in Queens, NY. This is a great opportunity to show your culinary skills, passion for food, love for cooking and appreciation for a team environment!

SHIFT SCHEDULE:

Monday to Friday 7:00am - 3:30pm (with some flexibility as needed)

Pay: up to $25/hour

Perks: Monday- Friday Schedule, Day 1 Benefits Eligible,

401K, Free Lunch

We get excited about food because every ingredient tells a story, and every meal can become an adventure bringing people together. In the places where people care about food, our chefs create culinary experiences worth discovering and sharing. We bring the food people love to the places they work, making corporate dining simply delicious.

Our commissary kitchen produces a variety of food products for client catered events, fresh packaged to-go food items, meals for national sport teams, and much more.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Excellent multitasking abilities
• Creative, innovative, and adaptable
• Guest service driven with strong organizational skills
• Experience with high production volume cooking
• Seeking career growth and advancement

Our ideal candidate:

• Is a team player. We are a collective team, and to be successful, we must be able to see beyond ourselves to how we can support the team.
• Has a positive, approachable "can do" attitude. We are always willing to go the extra mile, and offer 100% commitment to our customers, clients, and colleagues.
• Takes absolute pride in the quality of our food, service, and presentation.
• Is dependable, able to meet the schedule needs of the role.
• Has a keen but respectful sense of humor, likes to have fun at work!

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Position Summary:

• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records 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 supplies and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
• Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by patron, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
• Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.
• Typically performs fast food cooking duties in preparing food items to be served to customers.
• Produces small to large batch goods using advanced and full range of classical cooking techniques.
• Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Intermediate to advanced knife skills required.
• Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures.
• Reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.
• May clean and sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client and regulatory rules and procedures.
• Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short and broader preparation time.
• Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, state and corporate standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments.
• May produce food and serve customers at an a la carte or may operate a grill station.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications & Requirements:

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

• Knowledge of basic operation of equipment and cash-handling procedures preferred.
• High School diploma, GED or equivalent.
• 3 to 4 years of related work experience.

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

• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, with or without corrective lenses.
• 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.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is primarily in a controlled, temperate environment; however, may be exposed to heat/cold during support of outside activities.
• Varying schedule to include evenings, holidays, weekends and extended hours as business dictates.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Generally in an indoor setting; however, may supervise outside activities and events.

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).