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Alexandra Hospital; Singapore; On-site; SGD 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in Singapore is seeking a Food Preparation Assistant to focus on kitchen operations and adhere to health and safety standards. Responsibilities include preparing meals, maintaining kitchen equipment, and participating in menu planning. The ideal candidate has primary education and at least 1 year of experience in a restaurant or food production environment. Self-discipline and teamwork are essential skills. This position is open only to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

Qualifications

• Minimally completed primary education with 1 year of experience in food production.
• Comfortable with large scale cooking operations.
• Able to recognize basic food ingredients and utensils.

Responsibilities

• Check and prepare mis-en place for meals.
• Follow food safety standards at all times.
• Maintain kitchen equipment and perform daily cleaning.

Skills

Food preparation

Kitchen operations

Good communication skills

Team player

Education

Primary education

Tools

Knives

Peeler

Ladle

Job description

This role will focuses on food preparation, kitchen operations, and adherence to health and safety standards.

Primary Responsibilities and Duties (80%)

• Check, verify and prepare mis-en place for menu of the day and check for the number of meals to prepare with instructions given by section chefs.
• Comply and participate in daily belting and dishing operationally to ensure all foods established portion sizes, texture accordingly.
• Follow FIFO, date dots and colour codes for ingredients and record food/ cooking and holding temperature.
• Comply to the foods, health, and work safety at all times.
• Verify the daily collection report and exercise patient’s diet chits diligently.
• Prepare and identify the recipe and ingredients to be used, while ensuring that the raw ingredients are not over stocking and are always on par level.
• Participate in menu planning and setting up standard recipes, which includes conducting regular food R&D and tasting.
• Ensure proper wet and dry food segregation and storage, foods sampling, for laboratory test are well in placed. This includes handling wastage, spoilage, expiring and dented food cans during collection and record all rejected items.
• Maintain all kitchen equipment in good working conditions, perform daily cleaning of kitchen equipment in timely and orderly manner.
• Perform any other duties assigned by managers and head chef.

Secondary Responsibilities and Duties (20%)

• Participate in healthy week or any healthcare related activity and cooking demo as and when needed.
• Assist to push foods trolleys to patient wards/ wards ration in downtime.
• Highlight any discrepancies or irregularities to reporting officer.
• Perform any other duties assigned by managers and Chefs.

Requirements

• Minimally completed primary education with at least 1 year of experience in restaurant/ café kitchen/ food production environment.
• Must be comfortable to handle large scale cooking operation and production.
• Able to recognize basic food ingredients, utensils, cookery, and kitchen tools.
• Able to handle kitchen tools such as knives, peeler, sauce ladler and spoons.
• Self-disciplined, willing to learn, follow instructions and strictly obey with house rules and regulation.
• Good communication skills
• Be a team player that have good communication and interactive skills, and able to acknowledge information independently.

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*Only Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents may apply.