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We're hiring a Prep Cook for Schaffer's Mill in Truckee, CA

We believe our team members are our greatest strength and competitive advantage. Whether you're just kickstarting your career or have a long-standing passion for hospitality and customer service, there's an exciting new opportunity for you at Schaffer's Mill Engage with guests from all over, providing a first-class experience and dedicated service they will carry with them long after they've left our premises.

Ideal candidates are highly dependable, detail-oriented, and able to take direction well in a fast-paced environment. The Prep Cook is responsible for properly preparing all food, maintaining quality control, sanitizing workstations, following all procedures and recipes, receiving inventories, and more. Food Safety and Sanitation Training is required upon hire.

Ideal candidates have flexible schedules with availability to work weekends and holidays, as needed. This includes competitive compensation starting at $24 an hour.

Our team has made a conscious effort to ensure strong protocols are in place to keep you and our patrons safe, so you can focus on the customer experience, camaraderie, and dining room management.

For more information on our open opportunities, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Follows recipes and/or product directions for proper food preparation
• Maintains quality control for all products, including monitoring freshness of product daily
• Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas by hand or cart
• Prepares appropriate equipment for cooking
• Operates kitchen utensils and/or equipment used for weighing, measuring, mixing, washing, peeling, cutting, grinding, stirring, straining, slicing, assembling, and kneading of food products
• Ensures proper food handling procedures are followed wrapping, labeling, dating, stocking, storing, rotating, and checking temperature of products
• Receives and inventories food and beverage product and supplies
• Cleans and sanitizes workstation and equipment
• Ability to perform any other duties as assigned by Department Manager

Education and Experience Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to read and speak English may be required in order to perform the duties of the job (e., the associates may be required to communicate with English speaking customers or co-workers, the manuals for the equipment the associates may use are in English)
• Food Safety and Sanitation Training

Working Conditions

• Frequently stands, uses hands, talks, listens, tastes, and smells
• Regularly walks and reaches with hands and arms
• Occasionally sits, climbs, balances, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls
• Regularly lifts up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifts up to 100 pounds
• Regularly works in heat (non-weather) and near moving mechanical part
• Occasionally works in cold (non-weather), wet or humid conditions (non-weather), near toxic or caustic chemicals
• Noise level is moderate

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