Cook

Location: Papillion, NE
Service Line: Hillcrest Shadow Lake
Schedule: Full-Time | 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Some Weekends & Holidays Required

Hillcrest Health & Living is looking for a dependable, experienced, and service-focused Cook (Culinary Chef) to join our culinary team at Hillcrest Shadow Lake in Papillion, NE.

Hillcrest Shadow Lake provides a welcoming senior living environment where residents are supported with personalized care, meaningful connections, and the opportunity to maintain as much independence as possible. Our culinary team plays an important role in creating a positive daily experience by preparing meals that are nutritious, appealing, and enjoyable.

At Hillcrest, our mission is simple:
Inspiring people to live their best lives. As a Cook, you will help bring that mission to life by preparing and serving nutritious, appetizing meals while maintaining high standards for food safety, sanitation, infection control, and kitchen operations.

As a Cook
, you will prepare meals using a variety of cooking methods while ensuring individual dietary needs, food-safety standards, and established culinary procedures are followed.

You will:

• Prepare and serve nutritious, appetizing, and visually appealing meals.

• Prepare foods using a variety of cooking methods, including à la carte and quantity cooking.

• Prepare mechanically altered and therapeutically modified foods according to physician orders.

• Follow established recipes, menus, portion standards, and dietary requirements.

• Follow HACCP cooking procedures with a strong emphasis on infection control and food safety.

• Maintain high sanitation standards throughout your work area and the entire kitchen.

• Complete required opening and closing procedures and properly secure culinary areas.

• Clean and sanitize culinary equipment according to established equipment-cleaning procedures.

• Monitor and document dry, refrigerated, and frozen food-storage areas as required.

• Complete required food-safety and regulatory documentation accurately and timely.

• Properly store, label, and handle food products to maintain quality and safety.

• Safely store and use cleaning chemicals according to MSDS and OSHA requirements.

• Provide direction to Hosts/Hostesses during the shift and help ensure assigned responsibilities are completed.

• Work collaboratively with culinary and community team members to keep meal service running smoothly.

• Assist with additional culinary responsibilities when needed.

• Be flexible in supporting other responsibilities or positions temporarily when operational needs require.

The role includes food preparation, therapeutic and mechanically altered diets, HACCP compliance, infection control, sanitation, documentation, equipment cleaning, and supporting daily culinary operations.

We are looking for someone who enjoys cooking, takes pride in the quality of their work, and understands that meals are an important part of a resident’s day.

The right candidate will be organized, dependable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced kitchen while maintaining strong attention to food safety, dietary requirements, sanitation, and presentation.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Previous restaurant, hotel, senior living, healthcare, institutional, or similar cooking experience preferred.

• Experience preparing meals in a high-volume kitchen environment.

• Strong understanding of food-safety and sanitation practices.

• Ability to follow recipes, menus, therapeutic diets, and food-preparation standards.

• Strong attention to detail with food temperatures, storage, sanitation, and required documentation.

• Ability to manage multiple food-preparation priorities during busy meal periods.

• Dependability and consistent…