COOK IN FOOD & NUTRITION | FULL-TIME EVENING & EVERY OTHER WEEKEND SHIFT (23302)

About the Role

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is seeking a Cook in Food and Nutrition to join our team. As a leading healthcare provider, we are dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to our diverse community. This role is ideal for someone passionate about making a difference and thriving in a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepares all food required by the menu using recipes and other production documents.
• Prepares meals for service at specific time deadlines.
• Ensures portion sizes adhere to food service production guidelines.
• Uses steamers, ovens, grills, broilers, and other equipment safely and appropriately.
• Tests food using thermometers and tasting, adjusting the cooking process as necessary.
• Follows HACCP and infection control guidelines to ensure food safety and sanitation.
• Participates in department meetings and the quality process as a team member.
• Attends in-service training with 100% attendance, as required.
• Maintains departmental policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Assists in cleaning the food production storage area.
• Properly stores items in the storeroom and rotates stock as necessary.
• Ensures stock inventory accuracy according to vendor specifications.
• Monitors temperatures of food in freezers and refrigerators.
• Reports equipment malfunctions to the Food Production Manager.
• Performs other related functions as assigned by the supervisor or as required to meet departmental needs.

Customer Service Expectations

• Respect, flexibility, knowledge, confidence, professionalism, pleasant attitude, patience, and helpfulness.
• All responses should be timely, professional, caring, and respectful.

Qualifications

• Quantity cooking experience required.
• Must pass a math skills test (knowledge adequate for calculating quantities of ingredients).
• Speaks, reads, and writes English to the extent required by the position; knowledge of a second language preferred.
• High School graduation or equivalent.

Job Setting/Physical Demands

• Hospital kitchens and cafeteria environment.
• Exposed to heat, wetness, and odors in kitchen and/or patient areas.
• Exposed to kitchen elements such as steam, electricity, sharp knives, and cutting equipment, as well as extreme hot and cold temperatures.
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.
• Frequent prolonged standing/walking.
• Lifts/moves or pushes/pulls heavy equipment/supplies.

Pay

$22.00 per hour. Shift differentials: Evening, Nights, & Weekends $1.15 per hour.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including competitive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous time off policy, including ample vacation days, personal time, sick leave, and nine paid holidays.
• Robust tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs to support ongoing professional development.