Grill Cook

Location: US-MA-NORTH ANDOVER
System ID: 740271
Category: Food Service
Employment Status: Full-Time
Unit Name: MERRIMACK COLLEGE-CAFETERIA
Unit Contact: Keith Meal – Operations Manager Keith.meal@Sodexo.com
Target Hourly Rate: $18.10

UNIT DESCRIPTION

Grill/ Display Cook Positions, Union Hourly Full Time $19.10 per hour

Hiring Immediately! Hiring now! Exciting college campus setting!

We are hiring now for Union Hourly Food Service Positions at Merrimack College, North Andover, Ma. Thank you for completing the entire job application with attention to details. Resumes are recommended.

Merrimack College

315 Turnpike Street

North Andover, MA. 01845

Our very supportive leadership team makes this a fun work environment! Our successful candidates will prepare food and serves restaurant patrons. Take orders from customers, and cook foods requiring short preparation time, according to customer requirements. Typically, performs short order/grill cooking duties in preparing food items to be served to customers. Complete orders and serve customers. Follow recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving soups, meats, vegetables, and other foodstuffs for consumption. Prepare foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting and shredding fruits & vegetables, trimming & cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use. Taste products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment. Selects recipes per menu cycle, receives inventory, moves and lifts foodstuffs and supplies and prepares meals for customers requiring special diets. May clean & sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client, and regulatory rules & procedures.

You must be able to reasonably read, write, and communicate with customers, managers, supervisors, & co-workers in English. You must have a completed Covid-19 vaccine record.

Work schedules available are Sunday thru Thursday 3:00pm to 10:00pm, 3:00pm to 1:30am and Tuesday thru Saturday 3:00pm to 10:00pm, 3:00pm to 1:30am. Some holidays required. These are 2nd shift night positions.

We are willing to train for these positions!

Sodexo’s Actions to Mitigate Impacts of Coronavirus

Sodexo offers excellent insurance and benefits including medical, dental, vision, Paid Time Off, MATCHING 401K Savings Plan, tuition reimbursement, and a host of discounts along with professional support to our employees.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

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Benefits Eligibility

Full Time Benefits: At Sodexo, we believe every employee should have the resources to be their best. As part of our overall rewards, we offer benefits programs designed to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle including health, dental and vision insurance. We also offer other benefits like paid time off, financial and savings programs and access to our employee assistance program and other discounts (eligibility varies by unit and may not be available to all employees).

Position Summary

Accurately and efficiently prepare, portion, grill, and present a variety of hot and/or cold food items for various meal periods: to include Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Special/Catered Events. The general responsibilities of the position include those listed below, but Sodexo may identify other responsibilities of the position. These responsibilities may differ among accounts, depending on business necessities and client requirements.

General Responsibilities:

• Prepares, seasons and cooks meats and vegetables using skill in frying, grilling and sauting.
• Prepares, seasons and cooks starches, vegetables and other side hot food items.
• Performs food preparation work for cooking, including seasoning.
• Measures and mixes ingredients according to recipe.
• Deep fries, grills and sauts meats, fish, vegetables and other foods. Observes and tests foods being cooked by tasting, smelling and piercing.
• Portions food on serving plates.
• May add gravies, sauces and garnishes to servings.
• May select recipes per menu cycle, prepare bakery items, receive inventory, move and lift foodstuffs and supplies and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• May clean and sanitize work stations and equipment and must follow all Sodexho, client and regulatory rules and procedures.
• Responsible for following food safety and physical safety policies at all times, while utilizing personal protective equipment (PPE) when required by management.
• Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures.
• Reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.
• Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures.
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments.
• Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Willingness to be open to learning and growing.
• Maturity of judgment and behavior.
• Maintains high standards for work areas and appearance.
• Maintains a positive attitude.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule helpful.
• Must comply with any dress code requirements.
• Must be able to work nights, weekends and some holidays.
• Attends work and shows up for scheduled shift on time with satisfactory regularity.

Experience/Knowledge:

• High School diploma, GED or equivalent.
• 0 to 2 years of related work experience.
• Knowledge of basic operation of equipment and cash-handling procedures preferred.

Skills/Aptitude:

• Applies basic skills and may develop skills appropriate for the position.
• Focuses primarily on own area of specialty.
• Good working knowledge of food preparation.
• Requires familiarity of kitchen equipment.
• Must be able to read and follow a recipe unsupervised
• Ability to work under pressure in fast paced environment
• Must be organized and a problem solver
• Some heavy lifting required

Physical Requirements:

• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, with or without corrective lenses.
• Significant walking or other means of mobility.
• Ability to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 8 hours).
• Ability to reach, bend, stoop, push and/or pull, and frequently lift up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift/move 40 pounds.

Working Conditions (may add additional conditions specific to defined work location):

• Generally in an indoor setting; however, may supervise outside activities and events.
• Varying schedule to include evenings, holidays, weekends and extended hours as business dictates.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is primarily in a controlled, temperate environment; however, may be exposed to heat/cold during support of outside activities.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

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