Cook

UNC Health; North Carolina; On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health is seeking a cook to prepare foods and support QA activities in Chapel Hill, NC. The role includes cooking pastries, desserts, soups, and meals per recipes, with attention to portion sizes and dietary requirements. The position is full-time, onsite, with a 40-hour workweek.

Applicants should have at least 1 year of quantity cooking experience, or an Associate's degree in Culinary Arts with no required experience. HACCP and sanitation practices are expected daily.

Qualifications

• One year of experience cooking food in quantity lots or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Associate's degree in Culinary Arts satisfies experience requirement.

Responsibilities

• Cooks food, including pastries, desserts, and soups, per recipes and adjusts quantities as needed.
• Ensures food quality and assists in testing and standardizing recipes; maintains proper temperatures.
• Operates and cleans all production utensils and equipment; keeps the cooking area sanitary and orderly.
• Prepares complete meals and foods for special events; arranges food attractively.
• Prepares foods for regular, modified, and calculated diets using weighing and measuring techniques.

Skills

Cooking

Recipe following

Mathematical calculations

Education

Associate's degree in Culinary Arts

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

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

Other Information

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.

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE
Entity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: NFS Production Services
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Salary Range: $18.12 - $25.51 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Variable
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.