About this role
Job Summary
Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) is looking for the best and brightest to join our Team! MCCS is a comprehensive program that supports and enhances the quality of life for Marines, their families, and others in the Marine Corps Community. We offer a team oriented environment comprised of military personnel, civilian employees, contractors and volunteers who keep the organization functioning smoothly and effectively.
Qualifications
- Skills and Knowledge: Working knowledge of the methods and procedures relating to food preparation in small quantities, and the skill to apply such information to cook a limited variety of prepared foods.
- Ability to read and understand written food service material such as food labels, standardized recipes, etc.
- Ability to perform basic arithmetic computations in multiplying ingredients for a recipe and calculating how many servings.
- Knowledge of the characteristics of various foods such as color, flavor, consistency, texture, and temperature and cooking time required.
- Skill in planning, coordinating and timing sequence of steps required to have all menu items ready for serving at specified time.
- Knowledge of sanitation principles.
- Responsibility: Receives assignments in form of written and oral instruction from immediate supervisor who "spot checks" work to ensure it is being performed properly and is available to answer technical questions.
- Responsible for the proper use and cleaning of equipment, safety practices, personal hygiene, and conformance with sanitation requirements.
- Detailed instructions are provided on new or more difficult work.
- Work is evaluated in terms of quality of food cooked and adherence to instructions and time schedules.
- Physical Effort: Work requires continual standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing and pulling, and bending.
- Lifts and carries objects up to 45 lbs independently and objects over 45 lbs with assistance.
- Working Conditions: Kitchens are often warm and noisy.
- Exposed to steam, fumes, odors, danger of falling, burns, and cuts.
- Exposed to extremes in temperatures when entering walk-in refrigerators from the warm kitchen.
Major Duties
- Performs a full range of simple cooking tasks by preparing and cooking items requiring little or no processing such as pancakes, sausage, eggs, hamburgers, and fresh or canned vegetables.
- Prepares all forms of hot cereals; broils meats; prepares and cooks concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, and gravies; and makes cold sandwich fillings.
- Prepares convenience items such as frozen hash browns, fish fillets, and chicken nuggets.
- May prepare and bake pizza.
- Prepares foods by peeling, chopping, grinding, paring, cutting, slicing, dicing, pureeing, dredging, flouring, and breading.
- Weighs, measures, and dispenses foods in accordance with portion controls.
- Mixes ingredients according to precisely written recipes.
- Sets up and replenishes salad bar.
- Covers, dates, and stores leftovers according to established procedures.
- Cleans and maintains equipment and work areas.
- Maintains accurate food inventories and rotates stock items to prevent spoilage.
- Provides World Class Customer Service with an emphasis on courtesy.
- Assists customers and communicates positively in a friendly manner.
- Takes action to solve problems quickly.
- Alerts the higher-level supervisor, or proper point of contact for help when problems arise.
- Adheres to safety regulations and standards.
- Promptly reports any observed workplace hazards, and any injury, occupational illness, and/or property damage resulting from workplace mishaps to the immediate supervisor.
- Adheres to established standards of actively supporting the principles of the EEO program and prevention of sexual harassment.
- Performs other related duties as required.
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