Cook - Summer 2025

Sunshine Village Corporation; Alberta; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading resort in the Canadian Rockies as a Cook, where you'll prepare high-quality meals in a stunning alpine setting. Enjoy a lively work environment with opportunities for growth, while ensuring top-notch food service and safety standards. If you thrive in a fast-paced kitchen and love the outdoors, this role is perfect for you!

Benefits

Lively staff events

Stunning alpine vistas

Uniform pieces provided

Qualifications

• Experience as a cook in a fast-paced food service environment.
• Effective communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Prepare consistent, high-quality food in a specified outlet.
• Oversee kitchen operations and ensure food service standards are met.
• Assist with training kitchen staff and menu planning.

Skills

Effective communication

Decision-making

Team support

Education

Food handling permit

Food safety permit

Job description

Known as one of the most stunning alpine settings in the Canadian Rockies, and ranked the #1 day hike in Canada by Lonely Planet, Sunshine Meadows offers visitors unparalleled views. As spring turns into summer, the meadows are in full bloom and painted with colourful wildflowers, setting off jaw-dropping views of surrounding peaks, including Mt. Assiniboine, “the Matterhorn of the Canadian Rockies".

What’s in it for you?

• A ridiculously cool life experience
• A plethora of lively staff events all season long
• A chance to enjoy the alpine vistas

What can you expect?

The Cook works to prepare consistent, high-quality food in a specified outlet at the Resort. This role focuses on ensuring the highest standards of food service, presentation, and quality are met. The Cook works under the supervision of the Sous Chef and Resort Chefs, or designates, and closely with all culinary and warehousing departments at Sunshine.

This job might be right for you if you think you would really enjoy:

• Preparing and cooking a wide variety of foods, including individual dishes
• Overseeing kitchen operations
• Setting up, cleaning, and organizing work areas
• Ensuring all food service standards, health and safety regulations, and quality controls are followed consistently and thoroughly
• Being hands-on in food preparation and serving, when needed

Administrative and Reporting Responsibilities

• Assisting with the training of kitchen staff, including completing documentation
• Timely and accurate incident and deficiencies reporting
• Assisting with menu planning, food portions, estimates of requirements and costs
• Monitoring and ordering supplies

And you have:

• Experience as a cook in a fast-paced food service environment
• All food handling / food safety permits are required
• An outgoing, positive, friendly attitude
• Calm under pressure and patient, with good decision-making skills
• Effective communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Willingness to work flexible schedules (weekends, holidays)
• Maintain professional conduct when in uniform, on or off-duty, and online
• Ability to support and assist coworkers effectively
• Attend and actively participate in meetings and training
• Neat, punctual, and dependable

Additional Considerations:

• Employees must be of sound mind, exhibit good judgment, and report to work fit for duty
• This position works at high altitude and sometimes in inclement weather. Prolonged standing, repetitive motions, bending, and twisting are required
• Some uniform pieces are provided

This role is subject to all terms and conditions of the Sunshine Village Employee Handbook and Policy Manual, and the Alberta Employment Standards Code.

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Sunshine Village is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity within our workplace.