Cook

Primary Location: Liberty, LA | Full time, 40 weekly hours | Evening shift (11:30 AM – 8:00 PM; every other weekend and every other holiday)

Responsibilities

• Assists in training newly hired cooks and works with minimal supervision to perform advanced cooking duties, preparing food items according to complex recipes and product directions.
• Operates kitchen equipment to measure, mix, wash, peel, cut, shred, trim, and prepare ingredients for culinary use.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and maintains records to plan production and requisition supplies.
• Reviews menus and production sheets to determine quantities of meats, vegetables, sauces, soups, casseroles, breakfast foods, and desserts; plans cooking schedules to ensure timely readiness.
• Prepares pre-preparation items, selects recipes per menu cycle, bakes items, receives inventory, and prepares meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Ensures adherence to CACFP requirements for food preparation, service, and menu planning; attends required training to maintain up-to-date knowledge of CACFP rules.
• Completes production records, conserves leftovers, and handles food in a sanitary manner, maintaining temperatures above 140°F or below 40°F; completes temperature logs regularly.
• Provides high-quality service to customers, fellow employees, managers, and visitors, following CARES standards at all times.
• Assumes responsibility for safety, cleanliness, and sanitation; cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment in accordance with Department of Health standards.
• Attends required monthly in-services and complies with Infection Control policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 2+ years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• Preferred: High school diploma or equivalent.

About Us

At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s.

Cincinnati Children's is recognized as:

• A top 10 best Children's Hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for more than 15 years.
• Among the top 3 Children's Hospitals for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
• One of America’s Best Large Employers (2025) and America’s Best Employers for New Grads (2025).
• One of the nation's Most Innovative Companies as noted by Fortune.
• A Leading Disability Employer as noted by the National Organization on Disability.
• Magnet® designated for the fourth consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

We embrace innovation—together. We believe in empowering our teams with tools that help us work smarter and care better, supporting responsible use of artificial intelligence to create space for new ideas, better outcomes, and a stronger future—for all of us.