Dietary Cook

Mary's Woods • Lake Oswego, OR

6d

About The Position

Mary's Woods is seeking a Dietary Cook with professional experience, passion, and creativity to prepare hot and cold food for service in its assisted living neighborhoods. The role requires general knowledge of cooking techniques and food safety, including specialty dietary requirements such as modified-texture and therapeutic diets, allergens, and reduced-sodium and reduced-sugar options. The Dietary Cook works in a busy, high-production open kitchen and helps provide culinary excellence to the senior living community.

Mary's Woods is a nonprofit senior living community founded in 2001, offering independent living, assisted living, memory care, and residential care in a park-like setting on 40 acres in Lake Oswego. The organization describes its heritage and culture as caring and welcoming, and its mission and values center on respect, compassion, excellence, stewardship, and justice.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience equivalent to completion of a high school diploma or GED.
• Current Oregon Food Handlers card.
• Ability to work in a busy, high-production open kitchen.
• Knowledge of cooking techniques, food safety, and specialty dietary requirements, including modified-texture diets, therapeutic diets, allergens, and reduced-sodium and reduced-sugar diets.
• Ability to work positively with staff, residents, and families and collaboratively with employees at all levels.

Nice To Haves

• A minimum of three years of experience as a cook in a quality food services operation is preferred.
• Experience preparing both hot and cold food for service.

Responsibilities

• Prepare all menu items for residents according to production sheets, menus, special-request lists, and verbal requests from care team staff.
• Prepare appropriate quantities of menu items in accordance with dietary and production spreadsheets, standardized recipes, portion-control requirements, schedules, sanitation standards, and serving procedures.
• Become proficient in and ensure accurate production of mechanically altered food items according to specific ISDDSI requirements.
• Maintain adequate stock levels of necessary food items in the satellite service kitchen.
• Relate positively and favorably to staff, residents, and families, and work as a team with employees at all levels.

Benefits

• Free employee TriMet pass.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, and a flexible spending account, beginning the first of the month after hire for employees working 30 or more hours per week.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% match.
• Paid time off, accruing from 16 days per year.
• Seven paid holidays.
• Scholarship and tuition assistance program.
• Access to fitness center, pool, and sauna.
• Complimentary meal each shift.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED