Cook - Cardinal Health
About the role
Join our team as a Cook and bring recipes to life while flexing your creativity. You’ll work with fresh ingredients and top-tier equipment, exploring diverse cuisines, flavors, and cooking styles. We prioritize your health with production guidelines and safety procedures to support you in doing what you love.
Responsibilities
- Prepare a variety of food according to production guidelines and standardized recipes.
- Set up workstations with all needed ingredients and equipment.
- Prepare ingredients by measuring, weighing, mixing, chopping, trimming, and peeling food items.
- Safely use a variety of utensils, including knives.
- Operate equipment such as ovens, stoves, slicers, and mixers.
- Apply baking, roasting, broiling, steaming, and other cooking methods to meat, vegetables, and other foods.
- Arrange, garnish, and portion food according to established guidelines.
- Properly store food by adhering to food safety policies and procedures.
- Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, and utensils.
- Maintain excellent customer service and a positive demeanor toward guests, customers, clients, and co-workers.
- Adhere to Aramark safety policies and procedures, including accurate food safety and sanitation.
- Ensure security of company assets.
Job duties may change or new ones may be assigned without formal notice to meet business needs.
Requirements
- Experience as a cook or in a related role.
- Validated knowledge of basic food preparation principles, cooking methods, and food safety regulations (e.g., handling, sanitation, storage).
- Ability to acquire food safety certification.
- Basic math and counting skills.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
This role may involve physical demands, including lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, extended walking, and standing. Uniforms and/or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required.
Pay
The hourly rate for this position is $17.00 to $20.00.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Work/life resources.
- Retirement savings plans, including 401(k).
- Paid days off, including parental leave and disability coverage.
Benefits vary by location, legal requirements, employee eligibility, and where the employee lives or works.