When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Establishes work assignments and oversees work of the production staff. Reviews menus and recipes with Chef ensuring that all necessary items are in stock.
• Directs daily meal preparation following standardized recipes and procedures. 
• Ensures that all necessary items are pulled. 
• Ensures that meats are cooked off in advance.
• Establishes order of items to be cooked. 
• Prepares meals and ensures that all schedules are met.
• Follows standardized recipes and uses a variety of kitchen equipment such as mixers, blenders, knives and slicers.
• Washes, peels, chops and seasons vegetables. 
• Slices and portions meats, cheese, fish and fowl. 
• Measures and mixes ingredients. Fries, boils, bakes, roasts, steams, grills and seasons meats, fish and fowl.

• Maintains food supply and notifies Chef of any shortages.
• Labels, dates, covers and stores or disposes of a variety of food items.
• Thaws and reheats and cools items following prescribed methods as per HACCP regulations. Maintains and supervises the completion of all temperature logs.
• In the absence of the Chef writes menus for special functions, purchases meats, poultry and fish, inventories meat box twice a week and prepares schedule.
• Wears gloves when handling ready to eat foods. Wears wizard glove when using knife or chopping.
• Wears proper Lahey Clinic ID Badge Incorporates Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles and Mission Statement into daily activities.

• Complies with all Lahey Clinic Policies.
• Complies with behavioral expectations of the department and Lahey Clinic.
• Maintains courteous and effective interactions with colleagues and patients.
• Demonstrates an understanding of job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.
• Demonstrates a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to our Customer Service standards.
• Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.
• Participates in and successfully completes Mandatory Education. Performs all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Graduation from an accredited institution with background in food preparation and sanitation principles

Licensure, Certification, Registration: None

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: Demonstrates the ability to be thoroughly trained to meet organizational standards.

Experience: Requires a minimum of three years of experience in institutional food preparation.

FLSA Status:

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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