Line Cook

Essential Duties

• Learn and maintain standards in food production and quality.
• Expedite orders in a timely manner.
• Practice excellent operational sanitation.
• Execute scheduled banquet functions.
• Maintain a professional relationship with fellow associates.
• Help reduce loss/waste.
• Communicate equipment repair needs with chef.
• Actively participate in training efforts.
• Incorporate safe work practices in job performance.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Check and date all deliveries received and report any variances to chef in charge.
• Verify that all coolers are at the proper temperatures and are cleaned on a daily basis.
• Inventory requisition and receive supplies as necessary for quality production.
• Prepare the proper amount of food according to production or forecast sheets and production plans.
• Prepares items in accordance with established recipes for a consistent product.

Education/Experience

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• One to three months related experience and/or training.

Language Skills

• To read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• To write routine reports and correspondence.
• To speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

• To add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• To compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• To apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions furnished in written or oral form.
• To deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Frequently stands and walks and talks or hears.
• Occasionally sits; climbs or balances; stoops, kneels, crouches or crawls.
• Uses hands to finger, handle or feel and reaches with hands and arms.
• Frequently lifts up to 25 pounds and occasionally may lift up to 50 pounds.

Environmental/Noise

• Occasionally works in wet or humid conditions (non-weather) and extreme cold (non-weather).
• Frequently works in extreme heat (non-weather).
• The noise level of the work place is loud.

Certificates/Licenses

• Applicable Sanitation Training.