Cook

Galley Cook

Excellence. Innovation. Integrity. Passion.

Galley experience and current Alaska Food Worker card required.

General Description:

• Plan, prepare, and serve three meals plus three snacks each day for up to 50 crew members working onboard.
• Order food and ship store, following company protocol as set by the corporate office.
• Maintain clean food preparation, storage, presentation, and eating areas in accordance with food safety regulations.
• Regularly clean and sanitize all food preparation, storage and serving areas.
• Enforce personal hygiene in accordance with food handling regulations.
• Ensure housekeeping duties are performed, including laundry and cleaning of bathrooms.
• Use independent judgment and discretion.
• Train and direct the activities of the assistant cook.
• Regularly wipe down high touch points in common area of vessel with a bleach & water solution.

Work Schedule:

• Typical work hours are 16.5 hours per day, 7 days per week.
• Work hours may be extended during offload or backload which may result in uneven shifts and sleep patterns.
• Breaks are determined by the business needs of the fish processing plant. Unplanned, unscheduled breaks are prohibited except in health or safety related incidents.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, employees and the vessel will be operating in extremely remote and austere locations; often days away from land or dock facilities.
• While performing the duties of this job, cooks are regularly exposed to commercial cooking equipment, commercial cleaning chemicals, knives, and knife sharpening equipment.
• While performing the duties of this job, employees are expected to wear protective clothing and equipment such as rain gear (pants and sleeves), gloves, rubber boots, noise suppression devices, and use as required: hardhat, safety goggles, fire extinguisher, life preserver and survival suit.
• Employees will be exposed to various species of fish; wet, humid and freezing conditions; fish processing equipment such as headers, movable and stationary conveyor systems, knives, hoists, pressure washers, cleaning chemicals, shovels, buckets, baskets and aluminum pans.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Employees work onboard a vessel in the ocean which by nature produces varying degrees of motion in the factory.