What are the responsibilities and job description for the 1st Shift Cook- Prep position at Mom's Meals?
Prep Cooks are responsible for preparing food and ingredients to be cooked in kettles.
\n- Prepare and maintain efficient setup of the prep room
- Understand kitchen needs for the day
- Initiate and ensure all batches are accurate and signed off
- Weigh prepped ingredients as needed
- Open boxed ingredients and decant into pans
- Ensure that equipment is returned to the dish room in an efficient manner
- Understand and operate stick blenders in a safe manner
- Inspect equipment after cleaning and before use to ensure that they are clean
- Adhere to strict safety, quality, and production standards including food sanitation (GMP) guidelines
- Be a team player, including the ability to communicate well with others
- Basic reading comprehension
- Basic math, weight, and measurement skills (pounds, ounces, etc.)
- Prep cook experience
- Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
- Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen
- Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- Able to perform repetitive movements
- Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)
Company Overview
Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide for over 25 years. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.
EEO
Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.