Cook - Patient Food Service - Incentive Eligible

• JOB SUMMARY
  • Responsible for the preparation of all food for trayline, cafeteria and special functions.
• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Education: High School Graduate
  • Experience: N/A
  • Licensure/Certification/Registration: N/A
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Education: N/A
  • Experience: One (1) year previous experience as a cook.
  • Licensure/Certification/Registration: N/A
• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Ability to quantify recipes as required. Organization skills and time management abilities; attitude related to other employees and customers needs; cooking knowledge; recipe development, measurement; safety related to kitchen work; proper sanitation; body mechanics related to proper lifting and moving of heavy equipment; knowledge of operational skills of Food Service equipment.

  • READING - Basic: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
  • WRITING - Basic: Ability to write simple correspondence.
  • SPEAKING - Basic: Ability to speak simple sentences.
  • MATHEMATICAL SKILLS - Basic Skills: Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
  • REASONING ABILITY - Basic Skills: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional variables.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND ENVIRONMENT
  • PHYSICAL DEMANDS
    • Must be able to taste and smell. Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to fifty (50) pounds); frequent prolonged standing/walking; pushes/pulls or moves/lifts heavy equipment/supplies; considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling and crouching.

    • Stand - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Walk - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Sit - Frequently 1/3 to 2/3 (2.5 – 5.5 hours)
    • Use hands to finger, handle, or feel - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Reach with hands and arms - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Stoop, Squat, Kneel, or Crouch - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Bending-repetitive forward - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Talk or hear - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

  • LIFTING REQUIREMENTS
    • Up to 10 pounds - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Up to 25 pounds - Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)
    • Up to 35 pounds - Frequently 1/3 to 2/3 (2.5 – 5.5 hours)
    • Up to 50 pounds - Occasionally Under 1/3 (1-2.5 hours)
    • Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)

  • WORK ENVIRONMENT
    • Typical Noise Level - Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)

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