Lead Kitchen Cook — High-Volume Meal Prep & HACCP

JFSA; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Jewish Family Service LA (JFSLA) in Los Angeles is seeking a kitchen professional for high-volume food production and meal preparation. You will follow HACCP recipes, ensure kosher guidelines where applicable, and maintain accurate meal records.

The role requires reading and following recipes unsupervised, ability to scale recipes, and physical stamina for long shifts. A Food Handler certification and CA driver’s license are preferred; travel to multiple sites may be required.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in high volume, scratch food production.
• Knowledge of kosher dietary laws a plus.
• Must be able to read and follow a recipe unsupervised.
• Ability to follow recipes in a HACCP format and scale recipes to meet ordered daily quantities, converting volume and weight measurements as needed.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Subscription Meal program menu and support regular program menu items following HACCP recipes.
• Observe all requirements of Jewish Dietary Laws and HACCP requirements of funding agencies.
• Responsible for all food production cooking, dicing, slicing, baking and record keeping.
• Keep records of number of meals and temperatures according to HACCP.
• Label and date all prepared food items, serving and discarding as required by food safety requirements.
• Record and maintain all daily food temperature record logs.
• Prepares food according to menu, recipes and special events/caterings as needed.
• Produce accurate number of food portions according to daily production orders.
• Ensure all food temperatures are within required ranges before food leaves kitchen.

Skills

English literacy

Food handling

Read recipes

Multitask

Education

Culinary Arts degree or equivalent

Tools

Chef's knives

Convection ovens

Meat slicers

Job description

Jewish Family Service LA (JFSLA) in Los Angeles is seeking a kitchen professional for high-volume food production and meal preparation. You will follow HACCP recipes, ensure kosher guidelines where applicable, and maintain accurate meal records.

The role requires reading and following recipes unsupervised, ability to scale recipes, and physical stamina for long shifts. A Food Handler certification and CA driver’s license are preferred; travel to multiple sites may be required.