Lead Line Cook: Culinary Leadership in Fine Dining

Muckleshoot Casino; Auburn (WA); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Free meals

Team member parking

Job summary

Muckleshoot Casino Resort is hiring a kitchen professional to lead food production and ensure quality, safety, and efficiency in a busy casino kitchen. This role emphasizes guest service, recipe adherence, and teamwork in a high-volume environment.

You'll manage temperatures, station prep, and staff assignments while maintaining sanitation standards and cost controls. Experience in fine dining kitchens and Serve Safe certification are valued assets.

Qualifications

• 2 (two) years of certification from an accredited culinary program or four (4) years’ experience in a commercial kitchen required.
• Lead line cook, or 1st cook or junior sous chef experience in a fine dining or high-end restaurant setting preferred
• Serve Safe Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Exemplifies MCR’s values and set a great example by always demonstrating excellent guest service and professionalism.
• Practice, support, and promote the mission, vision, and values of Muckleshoot Casino Resort.
• Produce products daily maintaining quality standards and a strong work ethic.
• Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.
• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes or personal judgment, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Regulate the temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• Ensure proper presentation, maximum appeal, and freshness of products.
• Maintain production knowledge and attention to detail with taste and quality.
• Observe and test food to determine if cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils.
• Assign tasks as necessary to staff in the absence of the Sous Chef.
• Produce products in a cost-effective and hygienic manner.
• Constantly strive to improve operating procedures.
• Properly label and date all products to ensure rotation, safekeeping, and sanitation.
• Ensure food quality is superior and take action to correct any irregularities.
• Ensure kitchen equipment is properly maintained and functioning.
• Work with others to ensure the cleanliness and organization of the kitchen.
• May conduct an inventory to ensure proper par levels and rotation in the absence of a Sous Chef.
• May check the quantity and quality of received products in the absence of a Sous Chef.
• Create, maintain, and facilitate a positive work environment; promote positive team member relations and report issues to the appropriate personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

Culinary program certification

Tools

Ovens, broilers, grills, roasters

Job description

Muckleshoot Casino Resort is hiring a kitchen professional to lead food production and ensure quality, safety, and efficiency in a busy casino kitchen. This role emphasizes guest service, recipe adherence, and teamwork in a high-volume environment.

You'll manage temperatures, station prep, and staff assignments while maintaining sanitation standards and cost controls. Experience in fine dining kitchens and Serve Safe certification are valued assets.