Cook - UMass Lowell - Crossroads Cafe

About the role

Join our team as a Cook and bring recipes to life while flexing your creativity. Surrounded by fresh ingredients and top-tier equipment, you’ll experiment with diverse cuisines, flavors, and cooking styles in a dynamic environment that goes beyond food preparation. We prioritize your health with production guidelines and safety procedures to support you in doing what you love.

Pay

Hourly rate: $20.30.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Work/life resources
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k))
• Paid days off, including parental leave and disability coverage

Benefits vary by location, legal requirements, and employee eligibility. Learn more about Aramark benefits.

Responsibilities

• Prepare a variety of food according to production guidelines and standardized recipes
• Set up workstations with ingredients and equipment
• Measure, weigh, mix, chop, trim, and peel ingredients
• Safely use utensils, including knives, and operate equipment such as ovens, stoves, slicers, and mixers
• Apply cooking methods like baking, roasting, broiling, steaming, and sautéing to meat, vegetables, and other foods
• Arrange, garnish, and portion food following established guidelines
• Store food properly 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 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 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

Physical Demands

• Lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, and/or extended walking and standing
• Wearing uniforms and/or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required