DSHS Maple Lane Cook 2
About this role
DSHS Maple Lane Cook 2
If you are passionate about creating high-quality meals and excited to have your culinary skills, make an impact, join the and utilize your cooking expertise at Maple Lane Campus in Centralia, WA! We are looking for 3 Cook 2s; you’ll be at the heart of our kitchen operations, preparing high-quality meals while ensuring food safety and nutritional excellence for our patients. Put your culinary leadership talent to good use as part of our food service team.
Additional Information:
• Opportunities performed on-site at this work location at least three days a week may be eligible for an additional 5% premium pay in addition to the advertised salary • Evening and Night shifts include a shift differential in addition to the standard compensation rate. Evening and Night shifts include a shift differential in addition to the standard compensation rate • Work Schedule: 11am – 7:30pm
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Some of what you'll be doing:
• Lead assigned kitchen personnel to ensure that all regular and special diets are correctly and safely prepared by complying with instruction and standard procedures. • Collaborate with the cooks to prepare meals in a timely manner, checking your work by taste and smell of the prepared foods to determine quality and palatability. • Establish work methods and instruct others in routine kitchen work, train assigned staff, plan and assign work duties. • Cook products as needed according to the standardized recipe, measuring and assembling ingredients for menu items, planning and initiating cooking schedule for food preparation to meet meal schedule. • Properly stores food items at appropriate temperatures and routinely checks equipment to ensure proper performance. • Completes food inventory requisition from storeroom, maintains an accurate and rotated food inventory of supplies for production and restocks the kitchen for subsequent shifts. • Other duties as assigned.
What we're looking for:
Two years' cooking experience in a large-scale food service or culinary operation.
Completion of course in large-scale cooking may be substituted for one year of experience.
OR
One year as a Cook 1 in State service.
Why Join Us? We partner with people to access support, care, and resources. DSHS employees make a difference in WA State every day by supporting sustainable recovery, independence, and wellness.