Prep Cooks

Reporting to the morning and afternoon Chefs, the Prep Cooks will help to prepare a variety of food for our staff and students on a daily basis. As a boarding house, we serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks to our students.

These positions are eligible for the School's benefits package.

Applicants interested in joining Queen Margaret’s School community must embrace the ethos of an independent school education, the capacity to develop positive relationships with all community members, and the desire to contribute to a collaborative learning community.

All applicants for this position will be expected to agree to have a Criminal Record Check initiated by Queen Margaret's School.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Prepare a variety of meats, seafood, poultry, vegetables, and other food items for cooking
- Cold prep station will entail prepping all the items for the salad bar, preparing the daily salad/sandwich special, filling and refilling the salad bars as needed and other duties as required
- Understand and consistently comply with portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards and kitchen rules
- Portion food products prior to cooking according to standard portion sizes and recipe specifications
- Maintain a clean and sanitary work station
- Promptly report equipment and food quality problems to the Chef on duty
- Act in accordance with all policies, procedures, dress code, and health and safety issues in accordance with WorkSafeBC, VIHA, fire regulations and health department requirements
- Work multiple stations

**Qualifications**
- The following are requirements for this position:_
- Demonstrated experience in a commercial or restaurant food setting - hot food cooking required
- Food Safe Level 1
- Minimum of 2 years working experience
- Knowledge of safety practices and industry standards with regards to food services activities
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written communication (including grammar and punctuation)
- Demonstrated history of strong customer-service mindset, with the ability to represent QMS in a professional, enthusiastic and positive manner
- Demonstrated understanding of working in an environment with a variety of constituents (students, parents, agents, vendors, faculty, board of governors, alumni) from many cultural backgrounds
- Demonstrated understanding of confidentiality of information
- Current 'Serving It Right' certification

**Working Conditions**
- Required to stand for extended periods of time
- Lifting of heavy objects may be required from time to time
- Work scheduled between August to June while school is in session, with optional work available in the summer on an as-needed basis