Entry Level Cook: Senior Living Community

Kendal at Oberlin is a full-service life plan community, which primarily serves older adults in the Quaker tradition. Residents are assured a lifetime of healthcare including short- and long-term nursing services, memory care and assisted living. Equally important, residents enjoy an independent, enriching living experience.

Kendal at Oberlin's Dining Services department is currently seeking  detail oriented individual for a full-time: 40hrs/week Entry Level Cook (shifts will vary between 6a-2:30p and 11:30a-8:00p). Reporting to the Executive Chef, the Cook will be responsible for relieving the AM and PM cooks, performing duties on their job descriptions: cooking, maintaining food service sanitation, and assisting in other areas of the department as needed. Additional responsibilities will include but are not limited to: 

• Opening or closing kitchen according to assigned position. 
• Assisting Food Production Manager in training, evaluations, discipline, and schedule adjustment of kitchen personnel on shift.
• Producing items in quantities according to recipes.
• Using proper temperatures, garnishes, portion sizes, and served with proper sanitary practices.
• Tracking daily production on production sheets and maintaining accurate recipe files.
• Attending kitchen meetings, reviewing production needs for the following two (2) days for needs and reporting shortages.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Must have experience in large volume cooking. 
• Experience cooking in a healthcare facility or retirement community highly preferred. 
• Must be familiar with production sheets, recipe books, professional recipe books, and be able to operate all food service equipment. 
• Must be able to read and write English and have a strong ability to work well with co-workers and managers.
• Must be able to lift up to 60 pounds. 
• Servsafe certification within 90 days of hire. 

Hours will vary: morning/nights. Rotating weekends and evening as needed, rotating holidays as needed.