Cook Floater

Job Description:

Performs a variety of food production duties under general supervision.

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 like hotels, with restaurant-quality cafes and a guest-centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.

Work Schedule

• Full Time, 40 hours per week

• Shift Details: 8 hour shifts Sunday-Saturday (varying morning, afternoon, evening starts)

• Shift Differential: Additional pay for hours worked within certain windows of time during the evening and weekend

• Required: Holidays

• Benefits Eligible: Yes; Medical, Dental, Vision, Education Assistance. Click here for more detail

Work Locations: Intermountain Health sites & subsidiaries

• Alta View Hospital

• Intermountain Medical Center

• LDS Hospital

• The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital

• Riverton Hospital

Essential Functions

• This position prepares and cooks food, serves customers, completes other duties as assigned.
• 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

Skills

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

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work

• One or more year of Cook or Line Cook experience preferred

• 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.

Location:

Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital, Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center, Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital, Primary Childrens at Lehi, Primary Childrens at Taylorsville

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