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Department: 471501 - Dining and Catering Operations

Location: Raleigh, NC

Essential Job Duties:

NC State Dining offers meaningful opportunities for employment across our retail and hospitality units. We offer employees the opportunity for learning, growth, and promotion, with dedicated and experienced culinary professionals available to provide on-the-job training and support to help you meet your full culinary potential.

We are seeking individuals to Join our Pack as a Cook.

The primary purpose of this position is to oversee the back of house operations in support of the supervising chef when needed at a campus food court. Serves as a lead cook and assigns and directs efforts of other food service technicians and temporary employees.

Essential job duties include:

• Help check in, store, and move food supplies prior to and during production and ensure proper rotation of product.
• Work with front of house staff to set up food stations and coordinate the flow of food from production to line service.
• Keep track of food levels during meal time to ensure no lag time between replacement of food on the serving line.
• Take an accurate count of all food consumed and enter data information into C-Bord Food Production System if necessary in the absence of a supervising chef.
• Perform necessary cleaning of utensils, workplace, tables, shelves, and equipment and communicate cleaning assignments to other back of house employees.
• Maintain Grade A sanitation rating of 95% or better.
• Other duties as assigned to ensure NC State Dining business needs are met.
• Position may be asked to assist in other locations as necessary.

Other Work/Responsibilities:

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience/Education:

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Some positions may require certification by the Department of Correction.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to cook (roast, grill, fry, steam, and boil) food items according to a recipe.
• Must be able to read, write, and do mathematical problem solving (add, subtract, multiply, divide, percentages and fractions)
• Provide exemplary customer service to every guest
• Ability to learn new computer software
• Must be able to lift up to 60 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Requires bending, twisting, pulling and pushing. Because of the nature of a food service operations and working in a kitchen, you must be able to work in extremely hot and cold conditions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Culinary degree or certification is preferred.
• Two years of short order or display cooking, buffet, and plated meal experience is required.
• Two years of planning, forecasting, ordering, budgeting experience; three years preferred.
• One (1) year of high volume (1,000+ a day) cooking experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or similar software.

Required license or certification:

ServSafe certification or the ability to obtain within six months of employment.

Position Number: 00107851

AA/EEO Statement:

NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you have general questions about the application process, you may contact Human Resources at (919) 515-2135 or workatncstate@ncsu.edu. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process, please call 919-515-3148.

Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. If highest degree is from an institution outside of the U.S., final candidates are required to have their degree equivalency verified at www.wes.org or equivalent service. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit.

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