Prep Cook

Description

Being a part of the Cache Creek team comes with amazing benefits:

• Great Pay
• Opportunities to Grow
• Gas Discounts
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Recognition Program
• Free meals in our Employee Dining Room
• Weekly Paychecks
• Affordable Healthcare
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Care Insurance
• 401k Savings Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• Direct Deposit

Summary

The Prep Cook ensures the highest quality food is prepared per the exact recipe specifications at all times. The Prep Cook is responsible for all aspects of their assigned station, completes all items on the daily preparation list, and assists the Cooks to ensure the stations are stocked with basic, critical items throughout the shift. The Prep Cook is responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, maintains equipment, utensils and tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Complete assigned prep work to stock and set up stations.

Prepare cold food sandwiches, salads and dressing.

Basic vegetable prep, slicing dicing and proper handling.

Preparation and handling of meat, fish, starches and vegetables.

Basic hot food preparation.

Learn and work basic frying, grilling, baking, roasting and poaching techniques.

Maintain recipe cards and documentation.

Properly execute all recipe procedures.

Inspect food preparation and temperatures ensuring consistency and quality.

Maintain soup schedules.

Assist others as needed, contributing to a teamwork environment.

In house training to operate machineries such as Power Mixers, Slicer, Emulsifier, Steamer etc. upon completion of training with culinary management: documented with signature sheets.

Assist with banquets and special events.

Learn and maintain FIFO standards for coolers, dry storage for all stations.

Clean and care for cooking surfaces, refrigerators and store all equipment

Report all faulty equipment or unsafe conditions to supervisor

Comply with all Cache Creek Casino Resort safety, health & sanitation policies & procedures

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience

Willingness to learn, train, and grow in the culinary field.

Age Requirement

Must be at least 18 years of age.

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Cache Creek Casino Resort Tribal Gaming License.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock and second hand tobacco smoke. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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