Production Cook- Looking for summer work?

BRATTLEBORO FOOD COOPMarlboro, VT
Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring summer positions for the Potash Hill, Music Festival 2026!!! For seven weeks each summer; Marlboro, VT forms a closely-knit community of some 65 exceptional young professional musicians and 25 master artists from the U.S. and around the world. The Brattleboro Food Co-op will be providing 3 meals a day on-site at the Potash Hill Campus in Marlboro.

Requirements

  • Self-motivated, organized, responsible, flexible
  • Effective communication skills
  • Professional cooking experience; 3-5 years practical application.
  • Line work, fine dining, culinary education, and catering production; large scale food service culinary production experience highly preferred.
  • Quick and proficient cooking skills, knife work, and an understanding of large scale production
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds
  • Ability to understand and follow directions
  • Ability to understand and meet standards for health, safety, and excellence
  • Ability to remain alert and focused in an environment that is noisy and fast-paced
  • Ability to work effectively within a team
  • Detail-oriented and thorough

Nice To Haves

  • Culinary education
  • Catering production
  • Large scale food service culinary production experience

Responsibilities

  • Preparation of all menu items promptly and efficiently as assigned
  • Facilitating all aspects of service, any catering events, and meals as needed including: maintaining the meal line during service, cleaning, set up and break down, and any to-order station as required
  • Ensure and facilitate kitchen cleanliness as needed or assigned
  • Ensure that equipment is well maintained, and to notify appropriate personnel of any equipment failures or malfunctions in a timely fashion
  • Put away orders – follow receiving protocols as defined in training
  • Ensure high quality of products, and quality standards
  • Utilization of logbooks, temperature logs, refrigeration logs and other work templates used
  • Accurately follow recipes using proper measurements with a mind to menu specific alterations as directed by a supervisor
  • Maintain appropriate par levels of product
  • Maintain clean and orderly work stations
  • Plan and participate in cleaning projects as assigned
  • Adhering to the site’s code of conduct as defined during training
  • Provide training to new team members as assigned
  • Adhere to established safety and sanitation standards
  • Accurately inputting shrink data as needed
  • Maintaining clean and orderly work stations
  • Adhering to the site code of conduct as defined during training
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Assists customers with questions in a prompt and courteous manner
  • Provide attentive and courteous customer service
  • Maintain a polite, friendly and helpful attitude towards internal and external customers
  • Knowledgeable about all products. Continues to learn about new products. Answers questions accurately
  • Ensure quality food preparation, presentation and execution
  • Handles all equipment in a safe manner
  • Alert to unsafe equipment and removes any equipment that is unsafe from usage
  • Ensures department teamwork through trust and communication
  • Accepts responsibility for personal decisions and actions. Exemplifies honesty, integrity and ethics
  • Contributes constructively to the morale of the department
  • Shows initiative in solving issues and achieving the departmental goals

Benefits

  • Competitive Wages
  • 3 free meals provided to staff
  • up to a $750 completion bonus
  • free training
  • free ServSafe certification
  • BFC store discount
  • free housing
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