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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 49 days ago
On-site Tuscaloosa, AL $23.7 – $27.7/hr Apply by Aug 7, 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, WG-6, 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
- →Major duties and responsibilities include: Works independently to prepare and cook a variety of items including regular and therapeutic diet (diabetic, low sodium, low protein,gluten free, etc.) entrees and dessert items.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Cooks hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, gravies.
- →Uses a variety of methods to prepare meats, fish, and poultry including broiling, roasting, baking, frying, boiling, steaming, stewing, braising, and grilling.
- →Prepares fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables; bakes frozen potatoes, pre-made cookie dough, muffin batters.
- →Washes, peels, chops, grinds, pares, cuts, slices, dices, purees, dredges, flours, breads items.
- →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.
- →Combines ingredients according to recipes to produce quality food items, minimizing preparation time and food waste.
- →Weighs, measures, assembles ingredients for regular and modified diets.
- →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.
- →Performs deep cleaning tasks such as cleaning walk-in refrigerators and freezers.
- →Receives, rotates and stores perishable and non-perishable items according to service policies.
- →Removes outdated or damaged goods from stock.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job Subject to a background/suitability investigation Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period (OR INSERT "trial period"), your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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.
- ✓This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Personality Fit
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