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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 49 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $19.6 – $22.9/hr Apply by May 21, 2026 Cooking ENTJESFJESTJISTJ OperationsHospitality
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This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Service of a Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Nutrition and Food Services is responsible for providing meals and nutritional care to Veteran patients at the Medical Center. The primary purpose of the Cook, is to prepare nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans. The position has a sequence of steps that require attention to work operations, sanitation and safety; work assignments may require knowledge and judgment.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Performs a full range of simple cooking which entails the preparation and cooking of meals that require little or no processing.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Performs full range of simple cooking by preparing and cooking items requiring little or no processing such as hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, and gravies.
- →Washes, peels, chops, grinds, pares, cuts, slices, dices, purees, dredges, flours, breads items.
- →Weighs, measures, assembles ingredients for regular and modified diets.
- →Combines ingredients according to precisely written recipes to produce quality food items, minimizing preparation time and food waste.
- →Operates a variety of kitchen equipment: oven, combi oven/steamer, grill, slicer, mixer, steam kettles, blender, food processor, scale; follows safety procedures regarding the operation of equipment.
- →Follows sanitary food handling procedures; covers, labels and dates food items; utilize or discard ingredients by expiration date.
- →Disassembles and assembles component parts and accessories for cleaning.
- →Cleans, stores and maintains all kitchen utensils, equipment and work areas practicing a "clean as you go" concept.
- →Cleans and sanitizes assigned work areas: worktables, sinks, blast chillers, racks, carts.
- →Rotates and stores perishable and non-perishable items according to service policies.
- →Removes outdated or damaged goods from stock.
- →Weighs, measures, and assembles ingredients accurately and according to standardized recipes or requisitions.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 12a91d16-95ff-451d-896d-331cfb45bdbe
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