Line Cook

Harmons Grocery; Santa Clara (UT); On-site; USD 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Harmons Grocery in Utah seeks a kitchen team member to assist chefs with food preparation, cooking, and frying while maintaining safety and quality standards. The role includes stocking and receiving products and delivering exceptional customer service in a fast-paced store kitchen.

The position requires ability to read recipes, follow precise measurements, and maintain cleanliness and organization. Must have a Food Handler's Permit and be available for weekends, evenings, and holidays if needed.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn and use proper knife skills.
• Must enjoy working with and handling various food products.
• Should have a passion for preparing, cooking, and eating good food.
• Current Food Handler's Permit.
• Ability to read and follow a recipe.
• Basic math skills used to double or half a recipe.
• Ability to interpret policies and procedures.
• Excellent organization and planning skills.
• Strong communication with customers and teammates.
• Willingness to work weekends, evenings, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Follows established store policies and procedures.
• Maintains quality and freshness of Kitchen products and services.
• Keeps Kitchen cleaned and sanitized daily to company standards.
• Maintains product assortment and inventory levels for the Kitchen.
• Verifies pricing accuracy and signage, especially for ad items.
• Delivers excellent customer service to all customers.
• Cooks and fries hot foods for the Kitchen.
• Prepares pizzas and other items per Harmons recipes and directions.
• Uses kitchen equipment to prepare, measure, mix, wash, cut, slice, or shred ingredients.
• Packages to-go soups, salads, dips, sandwiches and other chef items.
• Documents food safety temperatures using the log system.
• Assists in cleaning the dish area and maintaining cleanliness.
• Supports Kitchen operations to ensure overall success.

Skills

Food handling

Knife skills

Customer service

Recipe reading

Math skills

Organization

Job description

$16.80 - $20.50 PER HOUR

GENERAL PURPOSE:

The purpose of this position is to maintain quality standards and product levels for the kitchen. This person will be assisting the chefs with preparing food for the kitchen, including cooking, frying, and preparing various food items from recipes, as well as ensuring all food is held at a safe temperature. This person will also be responsible for receiving and stocking products and providing exceptional customer service.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Follows established departmental and store policies and procedures
• Ensures the quality and freshness of all products and services the Kitchen provides
• Ensures the Kitchen is cleaned and sanitized daily and meets the company standards for appearance
• Responsible for maintaining the appropriate product assortment and inventory levels for the Kitchen
• Confirms pricing accuracy and signage for all products, paying particular attention to ad items
• Delivers excellent customer service to all customers
• Cooks and fries all hot foods for the Kitchen
• Weighs, measures, and mixes ingredients according to recipes using various kitchen utensils and equipment
• Prepares all pizza items following Harmons' recipes including assembling pizzas for the take-and-bake section and baking pizzas for the hot case in applicable stores, as directed by the Kitchen department
• Use a variety of manual and automated kitchen equipment to cook, measure, mix, wash, peel, cut, slice, or shred meats, fruits, vegetables, and other products/ingredients
• Assembles and packages to-go soups, salads, dips and sandwiches, as well as packaging other chef prepared items
• Preparing sauces for use in recipes of wok bar items
• Documents food safety temperatures using the food safety log system
• Assists in cleaning and maintaining the dishes and the dish room cleanliness
• Helps check food loads in and ensures proper storing of these items, including receiving and stocking product
• Assists as needed to ensure the success of the Kitchen as a whole

MARGINIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

NATURE OF WORK CONTACTS:

• Consistent and daily interaction with customers
• Consistent and daily interaction with store associates

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Desired knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Ability to learn and use proper knife skills
• Must enjoy working with and handling various food products
• Should have a passion for preparing, cooking, and eating good food
• Current Food Handler's Permit
• Ability to read and follow a recipe
• Basic math skills used to double or half a recipe
• Ability to interpret policies and procedures
• Excellent organization and planning skills
• Must possess solid communication skills, including verbal and listening skills to communicate with customers and fellow associates effectively and efficiently
• Must possess the ability to accept constructive review and be accountable for one's own success as well as the success of your team
• Must possess integrity, a positive attitude, be mission-driven, and be self-directed with a demonstrated passion for Harmons mission and commitment to working collaboratively
• Continually strives to be product minded, customer minded, personnel minded, detailed, consistent, and forward focused
• Ability to work weekends, evenings, and holidays

PHYSICAL/SENSORY DEMANDS:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work is generally performed in a safe and comfortable store environment with the possibility of frequent exposure to hot, cold, slippery, and wet conditions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to grasp, push, pull, carry, stoop, twist, crouch, and reach; perform tasks requiring repetitive motion and eye, hand, and foot coordination; hear and respond to customer inquiries. Also requires standing, walking and bending throughout the entire workday and the ability to maneuver heavy objects weighing up to 50 pounds from location to location.