Banquet Prep Cook

Banquet Prep Cook

The ideal Banquet Prep Cook for Bear Creek is a guest service focused individual with the ability to help create a positive, memorable experience for our guests. The successful team member will be able to work with their team as well as individually, have good communication skills, be detail oriented, and foster the Bear Creek culture by focusing on our guests.

This position will be an important member of the Banquet Back of House team, supporting the Banquet Cooks by prepping ingredients and maintaining the kitchen by ensuring cleanliness and sanitization.

What We Expect From You:

• Setting up and sanitizing workstations
• Following prep lists created by chefs
• Measuring ingredients and seasonings and preparing cooking ingredients such as soup stock to be used in the cooking process
• Preparing simple dishes, such as entrees or salads
• Ensuring all food items are properly stored and easily accessible
• Assisting chefs in preparing food and attending to any culinary tasks that arise
• Supervising food and cooling room temperatures
• Maintaining a clean, orderly, and sanitized kitchen.

What We Expect From All BCMR Team Members:

• Acknowledge all guests and respond promptly to their needs, however busy and whatever time of day. Ensure unresolved incidents are reported to Manager/Supervisor
• Familiarity with all hotel services/features and local attractions/activities to respond to guest inquiries accurately
• Contribute to the team's success by accomplishing tasks and assisting with projects as needed
• Maintain knowledge and compliance with departmental policies, service procedures, and standards
• Work as a team member to ensure our guests have the best possible experience
• Understand emergency procedures and be able to apply them when necessary
• Report any incidents, property damage or injuries immediately to Manager/Supervisor
• Attend department meetings and training sessions as necessary
• Other duties as assigned by Manager and/or Supervisor
• Support Southern Management's Mission, Vision, and Values
• Comply with Bear Creek and Southern Management's policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• Availability during peak operating times, i.e.: weekends, holidays and special events
• 6 months experience preferred
• Culinary school training preferred

Job Knowledge &

Skills:

• Food preparation skills using cooking tools
• Knowledge of kitchen sanitation techniques
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced stressful, high-pressure situations while maintaining composure

Physical Demands &

Environmental Conditions:

Physical Demands data elements provide a systematic way of describing the physical activities that an occupation requires of a worker. The assessment of these elements is focused primarily on the physical demands of the job - not the physical capacities of the worker. Physical Demand refers to the level and/or duration of physical exertion generally required to perform occupational tasks (sitting, standing, walking, lifting, carrying, reaching, pushing and pulling).

• Alternate Sit/Stand or Walk at Will:
  The ability to alternate between sitting and standing is present when a worker has the flexibility to choose between sitting or standing as needed when this need cannot be accommodated by scheduled breaks and/or lunch period.
• Climbing Ramps/Stairs:
  Ascending or descending ramps and/or stairs using feet and legs. Hands and arms may be used for balance (e.g., to hold a railing).
  
  Note:
  
  Stairs involved in commute/getting into building are excluded if work is always performed in one building. Stairs onto a vehicle or a piece of machinery/equipment are included.
• Communicating Verbally:
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Crawling:
  Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Far Visual Acuity:
  Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. This is not just the ability to see a person or object, but the ability to recognize features as well.
• Fine Manipulation:
  Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm as in gross manipulation.
• Gross…