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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 49 days ago
About the Role
The primary purpose of the Cook, WG- 4, 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
- →Food Preparation: 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.
- →Grills eggs, hamburgers, meat patties, pancakes, French toast; broils meats; makes cold sandwich fillings and assembles a variety of sandwiches.-Prepares fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables; bakes frozen potatoes, pre-made cookie dough, muffin batters.
- →Prepares and heats convenience items such as frozen hash browns, fish fillets, and chicken nuggets; 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.
- →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.
- →Pans foods for bulk re-thermalization according to recipe guidelines and production guidelines.
- →Covers, dates, and stores leftovers according to established local policies/procedures.
- →Operates a variety of kitchen equipment: oven, combination oven/steamer, grill, slicer, mixer, steam kettles, blender, food processor, scale; follows safety procedures regarding the operation of equipment.
- →Food Safety/Sanitation: Follows sanitary food handling procedures; covers, labels and dates food items; utilize or discard ingredients by expiration date.
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
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