Lead Cook & Culinary Team Leader

Advocate Health; Hazel Crest (IL); Presencial; USD 17.000 - 25.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Advocate Health is seeking staff for food production and kitchen operations. You will supervise and train staff, review production, and ensure recipes and standards are followed. You will help manage production flow and maintain accurate records in a fast-paced hospital kitchen environment.

The role requires knowledge of food safety, ability to scale recipes, and strong teamwork skills to support patient meal service and operational efficiency.

Formación

• Familiarity with diet restrictions and ability to adapt recipes accordingly.
• Ability to measure and scale amounts of ingredients used in a recipe.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Responsabilidades

• Acts as a resource to staff, which includes training/orienting and providing day-to-day work direction.
• Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include interviewing and selection of new employees, staff development, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
• Reviews production sheets and recipes to ensure quality and quantity needed for items to prepare.
• Prepares food on daily production report according to established guidelines.
• Bakes, roasts, broils and steams meat, fish, vegetables and other foods per recipes.
• Carves and slices meats and cheese.
• Garnishes, displays and serves food items according to standards and recipes.
• Maintains time and production records.
• Follows department standards for safe food handling, storage and sanitation.
• Maintains temperature logs for production areas per department standards.
• Monitors accurate portioning and promotes food waste control.

Conocimientos

Familiarity with diet restrictions

Measure & scale ingredients

Problem solving

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Educación

High School Graduate

Descripción del empleo

Advocate Health is seeking staff for food production and kitchen operations. You will supervise and train staff, review production, and ensure recipes and standards are followed. You will help manage production flow and maintain accurate records in a fast-paced hospital kitchen environment.

The role requires knowledge of food safety, ability to scale recipes, and strong teamwork skills to support patient meal service and operational efficiency.