Job Description

Job Location: Goodwill Main Plant-GWIMP - Miami, FL 33142

Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: High School

Salary Range: $17.00

Travel Percentage: None

Job Shift: Day

Job Category: Restaurant - Food ServiceSummary:

A Line Cook is responsible for the back of the house, coordinating with kitchen staff to receive, store, prepare, and present food according to specifications, while following food control and safety regulations throughout all processes.

Comfortable working in heat conditions with a high-pressure environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Keep track of food production control
• Design menus and create dishes according to our customers’ expectations.
• Maintain food safety and sanitation standards.
• Check the quality and freshness of the products when receiving goods.
• Ensure the quality of the food on the line all the time.
• Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing, and mixing ingredients.
• Professional presentation (garnish and arrange the final food).
• Support the line if necessary.
• Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, and utensils.
• Monitors inventory levels before requesting orders from vendors.
• Food production control and minimizing food waste.
• Guide the staff during the shift, assign projects, and list things to do.
• Support the food servers with training and control the food quality.
• All other duties as assigned

QualificationsEducation and Experience

Must have prior related experience and training or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Customer Service: Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance.
• Oral Communication: Listens and gets clarification.
• Diversity: Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences.
• Ethics: Treats people with respect; inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethics; Upholds organizational values.
• Quality: Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity: Completes work on time and works quickly.
• Safety: Observe safety procedures; Report potentially unsafe conditions; Use equipment and materials properly.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment.
• Attendance/Punctuality: Is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability: Follows instructions and responds to the supervisor’s direction.
• Initiative: Volunteers readily ask for and offer help when needed.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and occasionally talk or listen. The employee can stand for long periods and lift up to 30 pounds. The employee can work in the heat from the kitchen, serving areas, and dishwashing areas.

Work Environment: Although the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.