Line Cook

Brief Description

Responsibilities & Duties

The Line Cooks are responsible for preparing and cooking food in a specific station, cleaning up prep areas, and getting means out on time, ensuring delicious meals that meet dietary needs. They oversee the cooking process from start to finish and determine how much time each step requires.

Kitchen and Food Oversight

• Warmly greet all guests, including, but not limited to, visitors, volunteers, vendors, employees, guests, donors; homeless men, women, and children; community groups, church groups, and public officials
• Establish and build healthy Christ-honoring relationships with guests while maintaining professional boundaries, including guest confidentiality
• Maintain an environment of love, grace, dignity and respect
• Prepare, serve, and cook healthy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner shifts
• Prepares, cooks, and serves meals in timely meals
• Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment, work surfaces, and serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices
• Assure health department standards are being followed
• Assist and oversee assigned volunteers (training, monitoring, evaluating, and general interaction)
• Assist with kitchen cleaning
• Ability and willingness to cover other shifts as needed
• Provide weekly reports as directed
• Attend staff devotions, community meetings, and staff meetings as directed by the Kitchen Manager
• Attend professional training and networking opportunities as directed
• Provide weekly reports as directed
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Gospel Rescue Mission is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit religious organization that provides social service programs to the homeless and working poor populations. Everything we do in this ministry should be centered in the will of God and in honoring the name of Jesus Christ.

Employees of Gospel Rescue Mission Choose To Participate in our Grace Based Environment by:

• Role modeling Christ-like attributes and values through our personal actions, words, and attitudes.
• Maintaining a safe, transparent, and healing environment that is based on Grace, Truth, and Love, and encourages trust and authenticity without fear.
• Embracing the accountability process, that leads to self-evaluation personally and for guests and students.
• Teaching and mentoring students and guests in every opportunity by using Biblical precepts.
• Building healthy, loving, and compassionate relationships with guests, and employees while establishing healthy and safe boundaries.
• Maintaining a personal lifestyle of integrity, honesty, and responsibility.
• Praying with guests, and employees.
• Agreeing in principle and in practice with the statements of Vision, Mission and Values of the Gospel Rescue Mission of Tucson.
  
  

It is the policy of Gospel Rescue Mission to complete a background check, drug test and motor vehicle authorization on applicants in the conditional offer stage.

Employment Status

• Full-time 40 hours per week non-exempt; eligible for paid time off; eligible for benefits
• Flexible schedule with occasional weekends
  
  

Reports to: Kitchen Manager

0 per hour

Vacation Level: 1

Requirements

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• 1 year of experience in banquet serving, food industry, and inventory oversight
• Strong culinary skills with experience in a professional kitchen environment
• Knowledge of food safety and sanitation practices
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Excellent knife skills for food preparation
• Ability to work well within a team and communicate effectively with colleagues
• Passionate about cooking
• Proficient organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication
• Knowledge of quality and health and safety regulations
• ServSafe Certification, a plus
• Professional attitude and appearance
• Ability to prioritize as situations arise to stay within scheduled tasks
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
• Must be an evangelical Christian, living a life dedicated to Christ, and be an instrument of God’s love, grace, hope, and forgiveness to all
  
  

Physical Demands

• This individual will come in contact with individuals who are ill and/or contagious and must take precautions to ensure the health and safety of everyone.
• Requires frequent sitting, standing, and walking; and lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
  
  

Mental Demands

• The population we serve is typically in crisis. This can cause emotional stress and compassion fatigue. GRM highly promotes employee self-care.
  
  

It is the policy of Gospel Rescue Mission to complete a background check, drug test and motor vehicle authorization on applicants in the conditional offer stage.

Employees of Gospel Rescue Mission Choose To Participate in our Grace Based Environment by:

• Role modeling Christ-like attributes and values through our personal actions, words, and attitudes.
• Maintaining a safe, transparent, and healing environment that is based on Grace, Truth, and Love, and encourages trust and authenticity without fear.
• Embracing the accountability process, that leads to self-evaluation personally and for guests.
• Teaching and mentoring guests in every opportunity by using Biblical precepts.
• Building healthy, loving, and compassionate relationships with guests, and staff while establishing healthy and safe boundaries.
• Maintaining a personal lifestyle of integrity, honesty, and responsibility.
• Praying with guests, and staff.
• Agreeing in principle and in practice with the statements of Vision, Mission and Values of the Gospel Rescue Mission of Tucson.
  
  

Summary

Gospel Rescue Mission is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit religious organization that provides social service programs to the homeless and working poor populations. Everything we do in this ministry should be centered in the will of God and in honoring the name of Jesus Christ.