Cook

UNC REX Healthcare; Chapel Hill (NC); Hybrid; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Chapel Hill is seeking a cook to prepare food, pastries, desserts, and soups per recipes while maintaining quality and proper temperatures. The role includes cleanup, QA activities, and presenting meals attractively.

The position is full-time, onsite with an evening schedule and a pay range of $18.48–$25.89 per hour. Education requirements are listed as none; one year of cooking experience is expected, with potential for culinary degree exemptions.

Qualifications

• One year of experience cooking in quantity portions.
• If an Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts is held, no experience may be required.
• Knowledge of recipes, portions, and food costs beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Cook food including pastries, desserts, and soups per recipes.
• Ensure food quality and maintain proper temperatures; assist in recipe testing.
• Operate and clean production utensils and equipment; keep area sanitary.
• Prepare meals for regular and modified diets using weighing/measuring.
• Arrange food for appealing presentation and events.

Skills

Food preparation

Quality control

Sanitation

Education

None required

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

Cooks and prepares food and performs related tasks such as clean up and quality assurance activities.

Responsibilities

1. Cooks food, including pastries desserts, and soups, according to recipes. Completes basic mathematical calculations to alter quantities as needed.
2. Ensures quality of foods. Assists in testing and standardizing recipes maintains proper temperatures for food.
3. Operates and cleans all production utensils and equipment. Maintains cooking area in a sanitary, neat and orderly manner.
4. Prepares complete meals and special events foods. Arranges food in an appealing manner.
5. Prepares food, including meats, vegetables, salads, desserts, and soups for regular, modified, and calculated diets using weighing and measuring techniques.

Other Information

Education Requirements:

• None required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• No licensure or certification required.

Professional Experience Requirements:

• One (1) year of experience in the cooking of food in quantity lots or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• If Associate's degree in Culinary Arts, no experience is required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: NFS Retail Services

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$18.48 - $25.89 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Evening Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation. UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.