Alliance True TX BBQ - Line Cook - Part time

About the Role

As a Line Cook / BBQ Pitmaster, you'll provide superior fast, fresh, and friendly customer service in a fast-paced restaurant environment. You'll prep ingredients for the kitchen and maintain department and food safety / sanitation standards.

Responsibilities

• Cuts, slices, dices, chops food for recipe preparation; preps in accordance with recipe specifications and SOPs
• Prepackages condiments (sauces, dressings) for prepared food items
• Completes tasks at assigned work station
• Assists in multiple cooking venues
• Assists in technical areas, and with catering orders, as needed
• Masters recipe preparation, including daily production to account for raw material variations and customer demand
• Prepares, packages, and plates fresh product
• Performs other duties as assigned

Food Safety / Sanitation

• Ensures compliance with department store and standard operating procedures
• Properly handles / maintains temperature integrity of all ingredients, product, and equipment operation
• Maintains sanitation in food preparation areas
• Properly handles, operates, and maintains equipment
• Performs as a team member to help ensure a safe, clean, productive operation

Customer Service

• Provides / ensures customers a sense of urgency related to accuracy, speed, and freshness of their order
• Provides superior customer service at all times; provides internal customer service
• Provides detailed knowledge of menu items, ingredients, prep methods, etc.
• Assists guests as needed

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• Age: 18+
• 1+ years of experience in commercial foodservice
• Experience in food preparation and equipment

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Culinary knowledge
• Understanding of nutritional values and ingredients
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Reading and writing skills
• Technology skills
• Planning and organizing skills
• Culinary math skills for recipe conversion
• Ability to execute high-volume production

Education

High school diploma (or equivalent)

Licenses/Certifications

Culinary certification, or equivalent culinary training / work experience

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Function in a fast-paced, retail environment
• Work extended hours and / or rotating schedules
• Safely maneuver around moving mechanical parts
• Constantly reach at waist, grasp
• Frequently be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic materials
• Frequently stand, walk
• Occasionally reach at overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, climb stairs, pivot twist, push / pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements, shoulder circumduction
• Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, ambient temperatures, and loud noise
• Frequently be exposed to heat
• Demonstrate the ability to lift 80 lbs, and manage in excess of 80 lbs with a team lift

While there may be exceptions, the measurements noted are generally defined as: Constantly: 5.5+ hours per 8-hour day; Frequently: 2.5 - 5.5 hours per 8-hour day; Occasionally: 0 - 2.5 hours per 8-hour day. It is Partners' responsibility to never lift beyond their own safe lifting limit. If an item is too heavy to lift, push or pull, and / or carry, the Partner must break the box down into lighter, smaller, more manageable components, or ask for assistance from another Partner or a manager.

Last revised: 8/1/2019