On Call Banquet Cook - Marriott Tacoma

Position Summary

Prep Cooks perform various food preparation, cooking, and cleaning tasks to ensure the kitchen remains efficient in creating and delivering dishes for patrons. Their duties and responsibilities include:

• Set up, clear and break down workstation.
• Wash and disinfect kitchen area, tables, tools, knives, and equipment.
• Check and ensure the correctness of the temperature of appliances and food.
• Clean working and storage areas, tools, equipment and floors as needed.
• Keeps areas neat, clean, and sanitized.
• Reports any maintenance problems or other problem areas to Supervisor as they occur.
• Follows company, safety and sanitation policies and procedures and ensures compliance with these policies.
• Maintains food at proper temperatures in appropriate size serving pans and handles food following proper procedures to ensure sanitation and safety.
• Controls waste and maintain food cost.
• Maintains all sanitation requirements including product rotation, temperature maintenance, and storage procedures, cooling requirements, and handling techniques.
• Continually and properly trains and re-train all areas of food preparation, safety, and sanitation.
• Maintains and develops teamwork and open lines of communication with employees and supervisors.
• Works safely and efficiently with all kitchen equipment.
• Responds professionally to all questions and requests.
• Works well without supervision, motivate others, show initiative and desire to get things done.
• Reports to work on time, in a clean and complete uniform, ready to work.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to follow direction with ease.
• Good, safe knife and equipment skills.
• Good reading and conversion skills.
• Ability to absorb a large amount of information in a short period of time.
• Ability to use good judgment, initiative and teamwork is necessary.
• Ability to adapt to change, new situations, changes in staffing and procedures.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to maintain food quality no matter what the business and staffing level.
• Ability to make decisions as needed to ensure quality guest service.
• Ability to maintain regular attendance and be punctual in a complete uniform for any scheduled shift.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees.

Physical Demands

• Risks burns and cuts.
• Very frequent repetitive motions and extreme conditions (hot or cold).
• Needs to be tolerable to extreme temperature changes from moist steam heated environment to cold refrigerator/freezer environment.
• Ability to stand /walking for long periods of time (6 hours or greater).
• Ability to stoop, squat, and/or kneel frequently.
• Ability to push/pull, lift, and carry from 0 to greater than 50 pounds occasionally including carts, pans, and trays of food.
• Ability to reach, twist trunk and neck frequently.