Cook

GPH - North Platte NE Hospital Corp DBA Great Plains Health; United States; On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

GPH - North Platte NE Hospital Corp DBA Great Plains Health is seeking a Cook in Nutrition Services to prepare and cook foods to order in a fast-paced hospital kitchen. You will follow recipes, read orders, and ensure high quality service for patients and staff.

The role involves operating kitchen equipment, measuring ingredients, trimming meat and vegetables, and maintaining safety and sanitation standards in accordance with regulations.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short preparation time.
• Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by patron.
• Typically performs fast food cooking duties in preparing food items.
• Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.
• Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
• Prepares foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry, or fish for culinary use.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May select recipes per menu cycle, prepare bakery items, receive inventory, move and lift foodstuffs and supplies, and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• May clean and sanitize work stations and equipment and must follow regulatory rules and procedures.

Job description

Job Title

Cook (Cost Center: Nutrition Services)

Essential Functions

• Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short preparation time.
• Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by patron, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
• Typically performs fast food cooking duties in preparing food items to be served to customers.
• Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.
• Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
• Prepares foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry, or fish for culinary use.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May select recipes per menu cycle, prepare bakery items, receive inventory, move and lift foodstuffs and supplies, and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• May clean and sanitize work stations and equipment and must follow regulatory rules and procedures.