Catering Cook: Quality Prep & Team Collaboration

Air-Culinaire-Worldwide; Burien (WA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K with employer match

Vacation time

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Air Culinaire Worldwide in SeaTac, WA is seeking a Cook to prepare hot and cold foods for catering orders. This on-site role supports production and may involve shopping for specialty items under guidance from kitchen management.

You will ensure high quality, safety, and efficiency in a fast-paced team setting. The role requires a High School diploma, a current ServSafe certificate, knife skills, and knowledge of cooking techniques.

Qualifications

• A High School diploma is required.
• Current ServSafe Food Handling Certificate required at hire or within 45-days of hire.
• Must have knife/cutting skills.
• Must have an understanding of cooking techniques.
• Culinary experience in restaurants, hotels, or catering companies or its equivalent required, with experience in new culinary trends preferred.
• Demonstrate the ability to take orders and follow through as well as direct and work well with others in a team-driven, fast-paced environment is essential.
• Must be energetic, enthusiastic, creative, and highly motivated to assist in food preparation and presentation.

Responsibilities

• The Cook will participate in the process of training and directing new and existing Air Culinaire team members, take time to ensure all food, packaging, labeling, and allergens on all trays and are made with accuracy, food safety and HACCP compliance.
• The Cook is expected to provide feedback and suggestions to the Kitchen Management Staff to continue to monitor, maintain and improve quality as a secondary responsibility in this role.
• The Cook will assist in the butchering of meats and fish and assist with the daily operations of the kitchen.
• Ensures that all food preparations and presentations meet ACW specifications and quality standards.
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and sanitized kitchen by setting quat-sanitizer stations, assists in monitoring and journaling temp-logs and using gloves, food safety tools and best practices when cooking in the kitchen.
• Use preventative maintenance with all kitchen equipment while directing the other team members to do the same.
• The Cook will assist in ordering, inventory and any other duties as assigned by the General Manager.
• ACW is utilizing Shipday for all its logistical information. All employees who are organizing or delivering catering are required to use Shipday for all order logistics and deliveries to include delivery photo at point of delivery and the name of the recipient at point of delivery.

Skills

Teamwork

Knife skills

Cooking techniques

Energetic

Education

High School diploma

Job description

Air Culinaire Worldwide in SeaTac, WA is seeking a Cook to prepare hot and cold foods for catering orders. This on-site role supports production and may involve shopping for specialty items under guidance from kitchen management.

You will ensure high quality, safety, and efficiency in a fast-paced team setting. The role requires a High School diploma, a current ServSafe certificate, knife skills, and knowledge of cooking techniques.