status
10-week Contract or Permanent
department
Administration
location
Kuujjuaq, Québec
jos posting end date
Until Filled
The Cook plays a crucial role in:
- Provide a variety of healthy and nutritious meals for guests.
- Maintain kitchen and dining room area.
- Provide general supervision of the kitchen area.
Purpose of position
Under the direction of the Administration Manager and the day-to-day supervision of the Coordinator of Food Services, the Cook is responsible for providing meals for guests of the centre.
Essential duties
and responsibilities
Food Preparation and Planning
- Plans weekly menus for the guests.
- Prepares meals and snacks on a daily basis, while ensuring they are nutritional and well-balanced meals.
- Refers to Daily Prep List at the start of each shift for assigned duties.
- The cook must be familiar with local country foods and how to prepare them.
- Assumes 100% responsibility for quality of products served, if prepared by the cook:
- Prepares a variety of meats, seafood, poultry, vegetables and other food items for cooking in broilers, ovens, grills, fryers and a variety of other kitchen equipment.
- Prepares necessary requisitions to shop for food when required.
- Stocks and maintains sufficient levels of food products.
- Handles, stores, labels, and rotates all products properly and in accordance to applicable laws.
Kitching Area
- Complete opening and closing checklists.
- Maintains a sanitary and orderly work station area by washing and disinfecting kitchen area and equipment.
- Promptly reports equipment and food quality or shortage problems to Manager of Administration.
- Knows and complies consistently with our standard portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards and kitchen rules, recipes, policies and procedures.
- Closes the kitchen properly and follows the closing checklist for kitchen, turn stove off and put away food.
Uniform Requirements
- Clean non-slip shoes, must say non-slip on shoe.
- Clean apron (provided).
- Hairnet or hat must be worn (provided).
Administration
- Attends all scheduled employee meetings and brings suggestions for improvement.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by the Manager of Administration.
Qualifications
Education
- Specialized training in Food and Beverage (diploma or certificate).
Work experience
- 1 to 2 years in a similar position.
- Experience in event planning would be considered an asset.
Knowledge and Skills
- Must be able to communicate clearly with residents and staff.
- Be able to reach, bend, stoop and frequently lift up to 40 pounds.
- Be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 6 hours).
- Be willing to follow direction and ask questions for clarification if needed.
- Personal and professional experience in a northern and cross-cultural setting.
- Healthy lifestyle.
- Ability to work outside standard office hours.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of programs, including Word, Excel and Outlook would be an asset.
- Must hold a valid drivers license
- Candidate must be willing to submit to a criminal records check.
Language
- Ability to read, write, and speak Inuktitut as well as English (mandatory).
- Ability to read, write and speak French (an asset).