Team Member/cook - Powell River, Canada - Klahoose Wilderness Resort

Description

• Participating in day-to-day production and plating of all food service areas, keeping the best quality food style possible.
• Continuously striving to keep high quality of food products provided by the kitchen and builds customer loyalty through product excellence.
• Helping to raise the standards within the department.
• Striving to advance knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Maintaining cleanliness and hygiene in the various kitchen areas including refrigerators and storerooms.
• Rotating food products to ensure high standards of freshness.
• Checking refrigerators and storerooms are organized and kept in the various kitchen areas daily and that all food products are stored in accordance with provincial regulations.

• Ensuring open lines of professional communication with both kitchen team and front of house.
• Ensuring the kitchen and individual stations are well organized and ready for service and dedicated to costeffective operation.
• Participating in individual touch bases (ITBs), group touch bases (GTBs), and skillbuilding sessions where appropriate.
• Establishing performance objectives/goals with management, reviewing progress throughout the year, and completing formal performance reviews with management so continual learning is the focus.
• Constantly monitoring safety and sanitation to ensure compliance.

• Understanding the guest expectations and established standards as related to food quality and presentation.
• Working with guest feedback on product quality and service levels and ensuring corrective measures are taken where needed.
• Alerting management to additional supplies needed, faulty equipment or other challenges that may exist.
• Maintaining adequate pars, ensuring to both cut outages or shorts and participate in any opportunities to minimize loss.

• Ensuring compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
• Maintaining purchasing, receiving, and food storage standards and logs.
• Actively taking part in the resorts environmental program and department specific initiatives in working towards sustainable operations.
• Striving to uphold a safe working environment and is Health and Safety conscious and actively involved in maintaining and improving a safe work environment.

• Promptly aiding in Emergency protocol.
• Maintaining organizational safety standards.
• Continually improving our impact on the environment and greening of operations through support of EMS protocols.
• Actively proving the resort's values and expectations for conduct.
• Performs added duties of a similar nature or level as required.

• Completed culinary education or demonstrated experience in a similar environment. Red Seal Certification considered a strong asset.
• 2 years' applicable experience in a kitchen and/or Banquet Facility
• Knowledge of food handling and sanitation standards.
• Experience with running and maintaining kitchen equipment.
• Previous experience working within operating budgets, forecasting, and scheduling.
• Experience remote resort operations an asset.
• Food Safe Certificate.

• Demonstrated food and beverage experience
• Knowledge of governmental safety regulations.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Effective decision making and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a team: consensus building, negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution.
• Strong customer and associate relation skills.
• Selfmotivated with a cheerful outlook and a consistent display of professionalism.
• Innovative, meticulous, and quality conscious.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with staff, customers, and vendors.

• Constantly standing and moving around in a kitchen environment.
• Frequently twisting, crouching, and stooping, handling, and grasping various kitchen utensils, and fingering/feeling foods and spices.
• Job requires incumbent to safely lift items weighing up to 50lbs.
• Occasionally sitting, climbing stairs, and balancing supplies and food.
• Exposure to varying temperatures degrees F).
• Exposure to slippery floors, noise, and vibrations.
• Ability to adjust to remote wilderness living. Klahoose Wilderness Resort accommodation provided.

• Discounted or free food
• Flexible schedule
• Housing allowance

• 8 hour shift