CYP Child and Youth Program Cook

China Lake Golf Course; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

China Lake Golf Course is seeking a CYP Cook to perform a range of food service preparation tasks, follow standardized recipes, monitor temperatures, and maintain kitchen cleanliness in accordance with NAVMED P5010 and CACFP requirements.

Responsibilities include preparing meats, seafood, vegetables, sauces, and gravies, supervising storage, labeling, and unloading deliveries, and adhering to safety and sanitation rules.

Responsibilities

• Prepares all types of meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fruit sauces, and gravies for menus.
• Prepare, cook, season, and portion food for all meals following standardized recipes; plan, regulate, and schedule cooking procedures so numerous products are ready at the appropriate temperature.
• Prepare menu items using special or difficult recipes that require numerous interrelated steps.
• Designs, implements and maintains monitoring of temperatures and steam pressures; evaluates cooking and baste quality to prevent uneven cooking and drying out.
• Modify recipes for ingredient quantities, the number of servings, and the size of the equipment available.
• Cleaning and sanitizing kitchen areas, dishes, and equipment; operates a mechanical dishwasher.
• Maintains work area in a clean and orderly manner, adhering to NAVMED P5010 and local policies.
• Labels and dates all items in refrigerators and freezers and stores leftovers in accordance with sanitation standards.
• Stores canned, boxed, and/or frozen items in the food storage area.
• May unload food and supplies from delivery trucks.
• Responsible for complying with security, fire and sanitation rules, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Ensures compliance with USDA CACFP, and all pertaining standards.
• Serves as mandatory reporter to Family Advocacy and Child Protective Services when required by local policy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Duties

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The CYP Cook performs various tasks or a sequence of tasks in food service preparation. Tasks consist of several steps that require attention to work operations and follow and established sequence of work. These tasks, which are summarized into categories related to food preparation and service, kitchen maintenance, and food storage, are summarized below.

Food Preparation and Service

• Prepares all types of meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fruit sauces, and gravies for menus.
• Prepare, cook, season, and portion food for all meals by following standardized recipes at different levels of difficulty and plan, regulate, and schedule cooking procedures so that numerous completed food products are ready at the appropriate temperature ant time. They plan and prepare or coordinate the preparation of an entire meal.
• Prepare menu items using special or difficult recipes that require numerous interrelated steps, many ingredients, lengthy preparation time. They prepare a variety of menu items using several different and complex methods of preparation such as cool or chill.
• Designs, implements and maintains specialized and general office Monitor temperatures and steam pressures, evaluate the condition of food being cooked at frequent intervals, and turn and baste meat to add flavor and to prevent uneven cooking and drying out.
• Modify recipes for ingredient quantities, the number of servings, and the size of the equipment available.

Kitchen Maintenance

• May perform the following: cleaning serving carts, food preparation areas, cupboards, drawers, and dishwashing areas; set up and operate a mechanical dishwasher; scrapes, soaks, scours, and scrubs the heavier cooking utensils such as mixing bowls and pots; performs heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas, such as cleaning ceilings; cleaning exhaust hoods; cleaning spaces under and behind kitchen
• equipment, including moving the equipment; washing floors and walls with powered cleaning equipment; cleaning walk in refrigerators and freezers; and sanitizing garbage room.
• Maintains work area in a clean and orderly manner, adhering to NAVMED P5010 and all local policies and procedures

Food Storage

• Labels and dates all items in refrigerators and freezers and stores leftovers in accordance with sanitation and health standards.
• Stores canned, boxed, and/or frozen items in food storage area.
• May unload food and supplies from delivery trucks.

Additional Responsibilities

• Responsible for complying with security, fire and sanitation rules, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Ensures compliance with U.S. Agriculture (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and all pertaining standards,
• policies, and regulations.
• Serves as a mandatory reporter to Family Advocacy and Child Protective Services as prescribed by local policy in the case of
• suspected incidences of child abuse and neglect.
• Performs other duties as assigned.