Lead Line Cook | World Trade Center
About The Position
Columbia Hospitality is seeking a Lead Line Cook to join their team at the World Trade Center. This role is responsible for preparing daily preparation requirements, maintaining par levels, and preparing new menu items under the direction of a supervisor. The Lead Line Cook ensures attractive and consistent presentations of food items, interacts with and supervises line cooks, and handles customer requests in a timely manner. They are also responsible for setting up, re-stocking, maintaining, and cleaning food preparation areas, conducting product inventories, ordering and receiving product, and ensuring team adherence to grooming, sanitation, and safe food handling standards. This position also oversees all opening and closing kitchen procedures.
Requirements
- 5+ years in industry, at least two years as a lead
- Able to cook proteins to pre-determined temperatures
- Ability to cook and direct a banquet up to 100 with a help of a small team
- Necessary State Food Handler’s License(s)
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instruction, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to other employees of the organization
- Working knowledge of all mother and minor sauces
- Working knowledge of proper butchering techniques
- Knowledge of specialized equipment: Mastering of slicer, Robo-coup, Hobart, convection ovens
- Must possess knife skills, the ability to adjust preparations for flavor, and accommodate customer’s needs in a timely manner
Responsibilities
- Utilizes specification sheets to prepare daily preparation requirements, maintains par levels of necessary items
- Prepares new menu items under direction of supervisor
- Ensures attractive, consistent presentations of food items, both buffet and plated
- Interacts/supervises line cooks to monitor quality, presentation and consistency of food items prepared
- Handles all needs and accommodates customer requests in a timely manner
- Sets up, re-stocks, maintains, and cleans food preparation areas
- Responsible for ensuring presentation standards are meet for all hot and cold items
- Reads and interprets recipes
- Conducts product inventories, ordering and receiving of product
- Responsible for team maintenance of grooming standards
- Responsible for team adherence to standards for sanitation and safe food handling
- Responsible for all opening and closing kitchen procedures
Benefits
- Commuter/Parking Allowance
- Tip/Tip Pooling Eligible
- Get Paid Daily
- Paid Time off & Holiday Pay
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401K
- HSA/FSA Plans -with employer contribution
- Referral Bonus
- Discounted Lodging, Dining, Spa, Golf, and Retail
- Employee Assistance Program
- “Columbia Cares” Volunteer Opportunities
- Committee Participation Opportunities
- Task Force Work Opportunities
- Online Learning Platform to Help You Grow!
- Third Party Perks (Including discounts on Pet Insurance, Rental Cars, Movie and Concert Tickets, Theme Park and Attractions & so much more)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
