Line Cook

Overview

Heron’s Key is a Community of “People Helping People”. If you want to look back at the end of the day and feel the difference you have made, you will want to join our team. You will have the ability to greatly influence the care and service provided to our Seniors and the opportunity to create long-lasting relationships that will impact many lives.

Heron’s Key is a premier life plan community located in Gig Harbor, Washington. We are dedicated to providing our residents the best senior living experience in the Puget Sound area and offer a full continuum of care from independent living to assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.

Heron’s Key is hiring a Cook. You will have the ability to continue your culinary career by learning from classically trained chefs as we run the gamut of world culinary cuisine. We are a full service restaurant that offers flexible hours, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to be home by 8pm with consecutive days off. You will work with a team that is passionate about the service provided to the residents at Heron’s Key.

• Prepares food served to residents, visitors and staff. Follows standardized recipes and special directed diet orders.
• Prepares soups, stocks and sauces; boils, braises and roasts food items per standardized recipes.
• Sautés, fries, grills, steams and bakes food items per standardized recipes.
• Ensures foods prepared are served within meal serving hours and that quality, temperature and appearance of food is preserved.
• Obtains supplies from storage areas in time for meal production.
• Removes food from the serving lines.
• Provides proper handling and storage of raw and prepared foods.
• Stocks levels of staple and non-staple food, supplies, equipment.
• Processes incoming food and supplies deliveries. Verifies delivered inventory forms and stores incoming food and supplies.

• One year experience as a cook in hotel, restaurant, hospital or similar institution preferred.
• Current food handlers’ card.
• Verified culinary training/schooling highly preferred.
• Knowledge of kitchen equipment operations and maintenance.
• Ability to plan and organize work, set priorities and multi task.
• Ability to make independent decisions.
• Patience, tact, cheerful disposition, and enthusiasm.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Regular, dependable and reliable attendance.
• Effective English communications skills both verbal and written.

All Heron’s Key employees must pass a criminal background check and other pre-employment requirements. We are an E-verify employer.

Heron’s Key is an equal opportunity employer.