Lead Cook

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Regular Full-time Staff Nome, AK, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $38.29 To $51.96 Annually

Purpose of Position:

Serves as the lead culinary staff member responsible for coordinating daily food production activities, ensuring quality food preparation, maintaining food safety standards, and providing direct leadership and training to cooks and food service workers. Works closely with staff to ensure efficient meal service operations, staffing coordination, inventory management, and regulatory compliance.

Updhold the organization’s vision, mission and corporate values. Demonstrate understanding of and compliance with organization’s policies, procedures, code of conduct and work rules.

Essential Functions:

• Lead daily food production and meal service operations.
• Assign and coordinate work activities of cooks and food service workers.
• Act as shift leader when the Kitchen Supervisor is not present.
• Ensure recipes, portion sizes, diet textures, and therapeutic diet requirements are followed.
• Monitor food quality, appearance, temperature, and production timelines.
• Assist with training, onboarding, and mentoring of new kitchen staff.
• Monitor sanitation, infection control, and food safety practices.
• Conduct production meetings and huddles prior to meal service.
• Assist with inventory control, ordering recommendations, and waste reduction initiatives.
• Report equipment issues, staffing concerns, and operational problems to supervisors.
• Assist with employee performance coaching, corrective action documentation, and recognition efforts.
• Serve as a resource for cooks and food service workers regarding kitchen procedures and best practices.
• Collaborate to develop, evaluate, and implement seasonal menu cycles, including rotating menu plans designed to enhance variety, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
• Assist with planning and execution of holiday, cultural, themed, and special event menus that celebrate community traditions and improve the dining experience.
• Provide input on recipes, food presentation, menu utilization, and service enhancements based on customer feedback, production outcomes, and available resources.
• Coordinate food preparation and menu execution for Board functions, meetings, community events, and other special catering requests.
• Lead efforts to enhance catering presentation standards, including food displays, serving equipment, dishware, and overall guest experience.
• Assist with the development and standardization of cycle menus, recipes, production sheets, and presentation guidelines to promote quality and consistency.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to consistently demonstrate the organization’s values: integrity, cultural sensitivity and respect for traditional values, continual learning and improving, compassion, teamwork and pride. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, accountability, cooperation with and consideration of others.

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have general knowledge of typical office technologies such as computers, printers, copiers, fax machines, and typical office software.

Job Specific knowledge is listed below:

• Knowledge of intuitional food preparation standards and practices
• Knowledge of menu development,planning, recipe usage and quantities

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have a broad range of skills and abilities centered around a strong patient focus, efficient performance, and teamwork. All…