Second Cook

**Job Profile**

The Second Cook delivers quality and speed to all aspects of food preparation and delivery to ensure great guest experience.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Work closely within a team environment to ensure the smooth running of the food and beverage operation by developing and cultivating a team environment
- Prepares orders according to established standards and customer requests
- Ensures cleanliness, proper handling and maintenance of kitchen equipment, utensils and work areas
- Responsible for proper storage of food and preparation
- Assist in Kitchen Steward duties (i.e. washing dishes) as required
- Support and collaborate with front of house team to achieve service recoveries and service enhancements in a professional and efficient manor
- Attend and collaborate at all department & hotel meetings
- Performs other duties, as assigned, to meet business needs

**Qualifications**
- Minimum 2 years’ kitchen experience serving
- Must have experience with breakfast menu
- Possess a positive attitude and works well with other team members
- Strong commitment to detail
- Proven organizational and problem-solving skills
- Be able to work unsupervised
- Self motivated
- Must be willing to work early morning shift
- Must be willing to work in Kamloops, BC
- Must be eligible to work in Canada

**Knowledge**
- Basic food preparation
- Demonstrates the ability to follow recipes and an understanding of recipe conversion
- Awareness of modern and classical cooking, including specialized culinary techniques and measurements, and possess the ability to propose menu items
- Knowledge of basic butchering, food allergies, seasonal ingredients and menus
- Food safe certificate
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)

**Working conditions**
- Fast-paced environment
- Loud environment
- Variety of hours
- morning, afternoon, evening, weekends, weekdays, holidays

**Physical requirements**
- Ability to push, pull, reach, bend, stoop and lift to 50 pounds
- Constant standing and walking for a minimum of 4 hours at one time
- Occasional ascending or descending flights of stairs