Lead Cook-Chick Fil A

Job Summary: Prepares food items, maintains kitchen cleanliness, and ensures adherence to sanitation standards. Interacts with customers to provide high-quality service. May perform cashier duties and handle cash transactions.

Education/Experience: High school diploma or GED with five years of food service experience. ServSafe certification required.

Essential Functions:

1. Promotes cooperative work environment and demonstrates commitment to customer satisfaction.
2. Maintains sanitation standards, cleanliness, and safety in the kitchen area.
3. Monitors food quality, follows recipes, and ensures compliance with departmental guidelines.
4. Adheres to workplace safety regulations and completes required training.
5. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and supports diversity.
6. Controls costs, minimizes waste, and manages food inventory.
7. Plans workday to ensure timely meal service and notifies management of adjustments.
8. Prepares food according to standardized recipes and maintains food storage procedures.
9. Completes batch cooking logs and evaluates excess prepared food for future use.
10. May perform additional responsibilities such as cashier duties or securing the department.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Ability to follow instructions and work under general supervision.
• Proficient in operating cooking equipment and following recipes.
• Strong customer service skills and ability to communicate effectively.
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and various shifts.
• Familiarity with hospital diets and ability to work in different kitchen areas.

Work Environment: Works in kitchen and retail areas with exposure to wet floors and sharp equipment.

Physical Requirements: Requires standing, walking, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 100 lbs.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.