Line Cook & Kitchen Prep Specialist

Harmons Grocery; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmons Grocery in Lehi, Utah is seeking a Kitchen Associate to assist chefs, prepare food, and ensure product quality and safety. You will cook, fry, and assemble pizzas for take‑and‑bake, stock elements, and deliver strong customer service in a fast-paced store kitchen.

The role requires reading recipes, following procedures, and maintaining cleanliness and order. A Food Handler’s Permit and weekend/evening availability are preferred for this position.

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.
• 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

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
• H 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

Skills

Knife skills

Food handling

Reading recipes

Math for recipes

Customer service

Time management

Teamwork

Job description

Harmons Grocery in Lehi, Utah is seeking a Kitchen Associate to assist chefs, prepare food, and ensure product quality and safety. You will cook, fry, and assemble pizzas for take‑and‑bake, stock elements, and deliver strong customer service in a fast-paced store kitchen.

The role requires reading recipes, following procedures, and maintaining cleanliness and order. A Food Handler’s Permit and weekend/evening availability are preferred for this position.