Line Cook

HAMPTON LAKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC•Bluffton, SC

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Line Cook position reports directly to the Executive Chef. Prepares, seasons, and cooks soups, seafood, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs for consumption in restaurant outlet or for banquets. The role involves reading menus to estimate food requirements, checking and adjusting oven temperatures, measuring and mixing ingredients according to recipes, and baking, roasting, broiling, steaming, and sautéing various food items. The cook will also observe and test foods during cooking, carve meats, portion food onto serving plates, and add garnishes. Responsibilities include washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding vegetables and fruits, butchering meat, chicken, and seafood, and baking bread, rolls, cakes, and pastries as needed. Proper storage and rotation of products, including lifting up to 50 lbs, are essential. The cook must handle food in accordance with ServSafe and South Carolina Food Safety Standards, and clean and sanitize equipment and stations after use. Knowledge of Hampton Hall’s company policies is also required. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Ability to read and interpret documents such as menus, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to scale recipe servings up or down as needed.
Regular exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and frequent exertion of up to 40 pounds of force.
Regularly requires standing for long periods of time, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, bending, stretching, and twisting or reaching.
Using hands to finger, handling or feeling and repetitive motions, pushing, pulling or lifting up to 50 pounds.
Work requires exposure and handling of hot and cold food items and equipment.
Regular vision requirements.
Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels.
Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, using measuring devices and observing general surroundings and activities.
Work has some exposure to environmental conditions.
Work in hot, humid, and noisy environment with moderate traffic.
Wears proper uniform and anti-slip safety shoes.
High school diploma or GED equivalent.
Two-to-three years’ experience in a line cook or prep cook role.
Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Supervisory experience preferred.
ServSafe certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Prepares, seasons, and cooks soups, seafood, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs.
Reads menus to estimate food requirements and procures food from storage.
Checks and adjusts thermostat controls to regulate temperature of ovens, combi-ovens, broilers, grills, tilt skillet, etc.
Measures and mixes ingredients according to recipe to prepare soups, salads, sauces, desserts, etc.
Bakes, roasts, broils, steams and sautés meats, fish vegetables and other foods.
Properly seasons and tastes foods during mixing or cooking.
Observes and tests foods being cooked by tasting, smelling, touching and taking temperature to determine it is cooked.
Carves meats, portions food on serving plates, adds sauces and garnishes servings to fill orders.
Washes, peels, cuts, and shreds vegetables and fruits to prepare them for use.
Uses proper knife skills to safely cut foods into classic knife cuts.
Butchers meat, chicken and seafood.
Bakes bread, rolls, cakes and pastry as needed.
Properly puts away and rotates large orders of product, consistently lifting up to 50 lbs.
Ensures all food is stored in the proper containers, at the proper storage temperature.
Handles food in accordance with ServSafe and South Carolina Food Safety Standards.
Cleans and sanitizes equipment and stations after use.
Provides constructive feedback and coaching to other team members.
Works in a team setting, must work as a team.