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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
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, WG8, is to independently prepare nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Include but not limited to: Independently prepares all types of food for regular and modified diets.
- →Prepares, cooks, seasons, and portions food for all meals ensuring completed food products are ready at the appropriate temperature and time and are visually appealing to customers.
- →Prepares menu items using special or difficult recipes that require numerous interrelated steps, many ingredients, and lengthy preparation time.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Calculate and determine serving portions from quantities of food issued to include meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fruits, sauces, and gravies for regular and modified diets.
- →Coordinates the cooking of items prepared by other cooks at one or more work centers.
- →Prepares complex recipes with multiple steps and lengthy preparation times.
- →Washes, peels, chops, grinds, pares, cuts, slices, dices, purees, dredges, flours, breads items.
- →Weighs, measures, assembles ingredients for regular and modified diets.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday: 5:00am-1:30pm and 10:00am-6:30pm with rotating weekends and holidays.
- →Position Description Title/PD#: Cook/PD99817S Physical Requirements: Is subject to continuous standing, walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
- →Lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 lbs. unassisted and occasionally lifts or moves objects weighing more than 40 lbs. with assistance of a lifting device or other workers.
- →Manipulates cumbersome, heavy objects, such as washing stainless steel mixing bowls, pushing heavy carts on casters or operating heavy equipment.
- →Possesses manual dexterity to operate equipment and to handle sharp knives and blades safely
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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a90d15bc-16eb-4974-8d3a-45f412a2ed02
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