Culinary - Cook

Company Description
**Grow your career with a company that shares your passion** Our Energy & Resources Division has an exciting new opportunity to join the Sodexo culinary team.

Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 67 countries, we serve over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of services. We pride ourselves on being committed to the highest standard of Employment Equity and Diversity. By partnering with the Stop Hunger Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to a corporate responsibility by fighting hunger worldwide. Start your journey with Sodexo, as we continue to grow across Canada

**Job Description**:
**The 3rd Cook will accurately and efficiently prepare, portion, cook, and present a variety of hot and/or cold food items for various meal periods: to include breakfast, lunch, dinner, and baking. The general responsibilities of the position include those listed below, but Sodexo may identify other areas of responsibility.**

**Accountabilities/Responsibilities**:

- As a member of our food services team, you will always provide the highest quality of customer service, while preparing or serving food to customers:

- Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short and broader preparation time.
- Typically performs fast food cooking duties in preparing food items to be served to guests.
- May produce food and serve guests at an a la carte, buffet, or grill station.
- Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal/provincial and corporate standards, guidelines, and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.
- Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food, prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
- Always provides the highest quality of service to customers.
- Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other items for consumption in dining areas.
- Prepares foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry, or fish for culinary use.
- Taste’s products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
- Will clean and sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client and regulatory rules and procedures.
- Produces small to large batch goods using advanced and full range of classical cooking techniques.
- May select recipes per menu cycle, prepare bakery items, receive inventory, move, and lift foodstuffs and supplies and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
- Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
- Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.
- Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures.
- Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures.
- Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments.
- Reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

**Growth, Development & Qualifications**:

- 1-2 years experience in an industrial kitchen of at least 200-500 persons
- 1-2 years of experience with food preparation and cutting
- 1-2 years of food preparation experience in a high-volume environment
- 1 year experience using HACCP food safety processes
- Must have good attendance record.
- Must have good disciplinary record.
- May be required to work day, split, or night shift
- Personal and professional integrity, appearance, and demeanor
- Embodies our value behaviors: Service Spirit, Team Spirit, and the Spirit of Progress
- ** Value Behaviors**:

- Serving Clients and Customers
- Integrity
- Flexibility
- Analysis and Decision Making
- Quality Assurance and Safety
- Diversity Awareness
- Drive and Dependability
- Interpersonal Relations
- Communication

**Qualifications**:
**Education / License**:

- High School Diploma an asset but not required
- Must have valid food safety certificate
- May accept an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Additional Information
**What Sodexo Can Offer You**:

- Flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation & great employee benefits
- Training and development programs
- Countless opportunities for growth
- Corporate responsibility & sustainability
- Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2019
- Canada’s Best Employers by Forbes 2019
- Diversity Inc. Top 50 employer 2019
- And so much more

Sodexo is committed to Employment Equity and Diversity. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of national origin, race, religion, ethnic group, age, disabi