Cook Helper/Assistant

Chugach Alaska Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Chugach Government Solutions is seeking a Cook Assistant at our Bronx, NY location. You will assist the cook with meal preparation in accordance with preplanned menus and budgets, and serve meals while ensuring proper temperature and safety standards are upheld.

You will also lead food service trainees where applicable, maintaining a clean and sanitary work environment. Mandatory qualifications include a high school diploma or equivalent, training in food preparation with 1 year of experience,

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Training in food preparation and one year of experience.
• Must obtain a Food Handler’s certificate within 30 days of employment.
• Pass any background check and drug test required on the contract.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record.

Responsibilities

• Prepare vegetables by washing, peeling, coring, grinding, shredding, or chopping for entrees.
• Prepare meats for cooking by washing, trimming, boning, cutting, cubing, or forming into patties or loaves.
• Cook or bake items requiring minimal preparation.
• Help cook and serve meals, ensure foods are held/served at proper temperatures and leftovers are properly stored.
• Keep the food service area, tables, floors, and equipment clean and sanitary.
• Prepare desserts as needed.
• Assist with storage of dry goods and freezer items.
• Maintain accountability of students and property; follow safety practices and OSHA standards.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Training in food preparation

Job description

About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Position Location

Bronx, New York.

Job Overview

Assist cook with meal preparation in accordance with preplanned menus, within established budgets, and in compliance with government and management directives. Act as lead worker for food service trainees and Center work base learning students (if applicable).

Responsibilities

Essential Job Duties:

• Prepare vegetables by washing, peeling, coring, grinding, shredding, or chopping, for use in entrees.
• Prepare meats for cooking by washing, trimming, boning, cutting, cubing, or forming into patties or loaves.
• Cook or bake items, which require minimum preparation.
• Help cook and serve meals, ensuring that prepared foods are held and served at proper temperatures, and all left over foods are properly chilled and stored.
• Keep food service area, tables, floors, and equipment clean and sanitary.
• Prepare desserts as needed.
• Assist with the appropriate storage of dry goods and freezer items.
• Maintain accountability of students and property; adhere to safety practices and OSHA standards.
• Cultivate and maintain a climate on Center, which is free of harassment, intimidation, and disrespect to provide a safe place for staff and students to work and learn.
• Promote student attainment of career success standards through modeling appropriate skills, mentoring students, monitoring skills acquisition and intervening when inappropriate behavior is observed.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Completing all mandated training requirements per government and management directives.
• Timely and cost-effective performance of duties.
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing with all levels of Center staff and students.
• Ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with all departments.
• Timely completion and accuracy of all departmental work.
• Dealing with a variety of people in a professional, courteous manner in diversified situations.
• Adherence to established company safety policies and ability to work in a safe manner, using any required personal protective equipment (PPE) as may be required.
• Compliance with company standard operating procedures and personnel policies and procedures.

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Training in food preparation and one (1) year of experience.
• Must be able to obtain a Food Handler’s certificate within 30 days of employment.
• Successfully pass any background check and/drug test required on the contract.
• Ability to obtain & maintain valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record.

Preferred:

• Previous experience in a commercial or institutional kitchen.

Disclosures

Chugach Government Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Chugach will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.

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