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Cook, Full-time with Benefits
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Description\
Middlebury College is seeking talented individuals to join our culinary
team! As a Cook, you\'ll play a crucial role in preparing, cooking, and
serving delectable dishes for our campus community while ensuring the
highest standards of quality, safety, and sanitation.\
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These are full-time positions that come with fantastic benefits
including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, retirement, tuition
benefits. Check out all of details here:
https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits\
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This is a full time, benefits eligible, hourly position with a hiring
range of \$18.63-22.83 per hour plus shift differentials for evening and
weekend hours. 6 pm-12 am is an additional \$1.50/hr and weekends is an
additional \$1.00/hr\
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Core Responsibilities:\
- Review production sheets and menus to prepare a variety of food
items according to recipes and volume requirements.\
- Prepare proteins, vegetables, fruits, and other ingredients for
daily meal production, including salad bar items.\
- Cook and prepare food items at individual stations throughout the
shift, following supervisor\'s instructions and production sheets.\
- Collaborate with kitchen staff to maintain timely and efficient meal
service. Assist other cooks and dining staff as needed.\
- Conduct taste tests and ensure food presentation meets quality
standards before service.\
- Set up service lines with fresh food to avoid shortages or excess.\
- Maintain cleanliness of work areas and equipment to uphold sanitary
kitchen procedures.
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Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity,
equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits
talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United
States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications
from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of
other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities.
The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate
an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in
the workplace.\
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Requirements\
- High school degree or equivalent experience required.\
- Advanced culinary training through a accredited culinary school or
vocational program preferred.\
- Must be Serve Safe certified or successfully pass the exam after
hire date.\
- Must have thorough knowledge of quality volume food preparation and
production using accurate measurement with standard recipes.\
- Extensive knowledge of a variety of cooking methods and techniques,
proper safe food handling practices, and skills.\
- 1 year of previous food preparation experience required.
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Physical Demands and Working Conditions\
Must be able to lift 10-20 lbs. numerous times during the day and up to
50 lbs. several times each day. Must be able to push and pull up to 150
lbs. frequently. Must be able to lift items above waist level. Must be
able to preform numerous manual tasks and use a variety of kitchen
equipment in a safe manner. Requires long periods of time standing, as
well as frequent bending and reaching. Back ground check required.\
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Other:\
Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background
check.\
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Benefits\
As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a
vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees
excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability,
generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a
generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two
years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens.
Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance
programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of
sporting facilities (including the College\'s golf course and Nordic and
alpine ski areas). The result is a very high quality-of-life in a
gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent
compensation and other perks of employment including:\
MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the
College store, library privileges, and discounts at cultural and
sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain
campus buildings. Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible
employees are eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same
privileges as the employee card (except door access).\
Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the Ralph
Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.\
Access to our Partner Inclusion
Program
that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners
of Middlebury employees.\