Cook - Retail Cook Station

About the role

Join Cleveland Clinic Akron General, a healthcare organization with over 100 years of experience, where you'll work alongside top caregivers and contribute to a supportive environment.

Responsibilities

• Cook and prepare food according to recipes, production sheets, and instructions.
• Adjust recipes to required amounts to achieve specified finished product quantities.
• Plan the daily production schedule and use of leftovers.
• Produce, portion, assemble, and deliver items.
• Check, assemble, and maintain supplies, finished products, pre-prepped items, utensils, and equipment.
• Report any equipment, personnel, safety, supply, assignment, recipe, or quantity/quality discrepancies to immediate supervisor.
• Test or taste food to ensure quality products are produced at correct, safe, and quality temperatures.
• Deliver prepared food items to appropriate dish up, storage, or serving areas.
• Follow pan size and set up diagrams for service and garnish pans for catering and the cafeteria.
• Use equipment, such as a stove, steamer, slow cooker, oven, kettle, slicer, grill, fryer, and hot/cold boxes.
• Follow proper sanitation procedures, practice proper food handling techniques, and the "clean as you go" policy, maintaining a clean, sanitized, and organized work area.
• Follow safety rules, regulations, procedures, and directions for equipment and chemicals.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Institutional cooking experience.
• One year of experience producing quantity.
• Demonstrated interest, aptitude, and ability for cooking.
• Knowledge of cooking techniques, procedures, timeframes, temperatures, sanitation, and equipment use/cleaning.
• Ability to judge food products in quality terms, such as flavor, aroma, consistency, texture, and temperature.

Qualifications

• Physical Requirements: Continuous standing and lifting; requires good eyesight for reading recipes and judging products; good arm and hand dexterity for operating equipment and hand preparation; good eye/hand coordination essential; ability to work in hot kitchen around hot equipment and a variety of other potential hazards; ability to withstand changes in work environment temperatures; insensitivity to allergic reactions to required sanitation chemicals, food, and supplies used.

Skills

• Ability to work rapidly to meet time deadlines.
• Ability to work in a hot kitchen around hot equipment and a variety of other potential hazards.
• Ability to withstand changes in work environment temperatures.
• Insensitivity to allergic reactions to required sanitation chemicals, food, and supplies used.

Benefits

Details about benefits are not specified in the provided job posting.

Pay

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