Cook Lead

Job Description:

Under general direction, plans, prepares, and cooks foods for cafe, patient and/or catering settings. This position is also responsible to lead the culinary team when other leadership is not on-site within the Culinary Services department. Resolves immediate issues and escalates to manager as appropriate.

At Intermountain, we are not your standard institutional hospital food. Our hospitals employ professional chefs, culinary leaders, cooks, and nutrition care associates. We treat our hospitals and catering events like hotels, with restaurant-quality cafes and a guest-centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.

With high-quality food as medicine, we bring new life into the world of hospital nutrition services and are making a difference in the lives of our patients every day.

Work Schedule

• Full Time, 40 hours per week
• Availability Needed: Sunday-Saturday Evening Shift
• Required: Rotating weekend coverage
• Benefits Eligible: Yes; Medical, Dental, Vision, Education Assistance. Click here for more details

Essential Functions

• Follows recipes and/or instructions in the preparation of food items
• May prepare bulk food items, large scale production, line cook or complete assembly of specialty meals and catered items
• Maintains an organized and sanitary working environment
• Maintains proper quantities of production with appropriate rotation of product
• Interacts with customers in any venue-catering, retail outlets or patient care
• May be required to deliver patient meals, cashier, stock, use automatic and manual ware-washing machines
• Supports a disciplined environment and provides after hours supervision in the absence of the supervisor or Chef

Skills

• Food Handling
• Food Safety and Sanitation
• Food Production
• Follows Instructions
• Recipes – ability to understand and execute
• Reading
• Organizing
• Communication

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit (as required by State/County) or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work.
• Demonstrated ability to read and communicate effectively in English.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize safe food handling techniques, in all applications
• Understands workflow, prioritizes, uses timelines, understands deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)
• Understands and prepares food according to modified diets using appropriate techniques where applicable (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to utilize commercial cooking equipment (preferred)

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.