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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Service of the Margaret C. Corbin VA Campus, in Manhattan, NY. The primary purpose of the Cook, WG-6, is to prepare nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans. The work of this position is involved in the preparation of regular or special diet foods and meals. This includes cooking meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, and vegetables and making soups, gravies, sauces, desserts, and other foods.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Food Preparation Works independently to prepare and cook a variety of items including regular and therapeutic diet (diabetic, low sodium, low protein, gluten dessert items.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Cooks hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, gravies.
- →Grills eggs, hamburgers, meat patties, pancakes, French toast; makes cold sandwich fillings and assembles a variety of sandwiches.
- →Uses a variety of methods to prepare meats, fish, and poultry including broiling, roasting, baking, frying, boiling, steaming, stewing, braising, and grilling.
- →Slices meat items by hand confirming to specific size requirements or weight specifications.
- →Prepares fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables; bakes frozen potatoes, pre-made cookie dough, muffin batters.
- →Prepares and heats convenience items; prepares pureed foods and adjusts consistency with thickeners.
- →Washes, peels and cuts fruits and vegetables by hand or machine.
- →Assembles and mixes salad ingredients and dessert items including gelatin molds and fruit crisps.
- →Plans cooking processes to produce complete meals on time and at the proper temperature which may require coordination of cooking several items with different cooking times.
- →Attractively presents and garnishes food.
- →Makes a variety of desserts such as cobblers, brownies, cookies and pastries.
- →Washes, peels, chops, grinds, pares, cuts, slices, dices, purees, dredges, flours, breads items.
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 All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
- ✓This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3cdba6c1-74f7-49a8-816c-143e75600b5a
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