Second Cook (Steward Assistant) Immediate Opening

Keystone Shipping Co.•Traverse City, MI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The second cook assists in the preparation of meals each day for the crew. This role involves supporting the preparation and cooking of breakfast, and assisting with lunch and dinner under the guidance of the Steward. Responsibilities include preparing salads, vegetables, fruits, and desserts, as well as baking bread and cookies. The position also entails receiving and properly storing grocery supplies, and maintaining inventories and stock rotation for all food items in freezers, refrigerators, and dry storage areas. Additionally, the second cook is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and sanitation of the galley and dining areas, managing vessel linen (storage, vendor cleaning, and issuance), and performing other assigned maintenance and housekeeping tasks.

Requirements

Must hold the following Merchant Mariner Credentials: Ordinary Seaman Wiper Steward's Department Food Handler
Must hold a ServSafe certification
Must hold a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
Must be willing to live 7 days a week in a remote environment with limited access to medical supplies and medical personnel
Maintain licenses and qualifications as required by regulation, both current and future
Maintain good health in compliance with USCG NVIC 04-08 including US Coast Guard vision and hearing requirements
Must have written and verbal command of the English language

Nice To Haves

Has at least 1 or more years of culinary background and experience

Responsibilities

Supports the preparation and cooking of breakfast
Assists with the preparation of lunch and dinner under guide of Steward
Prepares salads, vegetables, fruits, and deserts; bakes bread and cookies
Receives and properly stores all grocery supplies
Inventories and rotates stock (including verification of expiration dates) of all food items in freezers, refrigerators, and dry storage areas
Maintains cleanliness and sanitation of Galley and dining areas
Control of vessel linen - storage, vendor cleaning, and issuance to crew
Other maintenance and housekeeping tasks as assigned
In emergency scenarios, may be required to perform emergency duties to save crew and ship.
Responsible to be physically fit enough to perform self-evacuation duties such as using escape trunks, indoor emergency panels, launching life rafts, closing fire doors, firefighting, life safety, donning self-survival equipment, fall protection, scuba, survival suit, and life jacket as the situation requires.
May be required to abandon ship, jump overboard, swim, and row a craft.