Summer Concert Banquet Cook

100 N Hayford Rd, Airway Heights, WA 99001, USA

Posted Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM

This position is responsible for preparing and presenting food according to established recipes, quality standards, and safety guidelines, while ensuring compliance with internal policies and HACCP regulations. The role supports kitchen operations by maintaining product quality, assisting with specialty dishes, and contributing to a clean, efficient, and high-performing culinary environment.

• Ensures compliance with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians
  - Internal Controls and Policies and Procedures.
• Ability to perform various types of cooking methods
• Follows all recipes and control procedures.
• Prepares or displays food to specifications.
• Assists Sous Chef in preparing specialty dishes.
• Rotates food products daily ensuring the highest quality possible.
• Follows all food safety and sanitation guidelines set for by the FDA to ensure HACCP.
• Performs quality control checks before, during, and after production to ensure health and sanitation standards.
• Continually reviews kitchen operations for improvements.
• Performs all other tasks as requested by the Sous Chef, Food & Beverage Manager or Regional Business Manager.
• Available to work any changes in hours deemed necessary for business levels.
• May be required to be a panelist for the Internal Review Hearings.
• This job description does not list all the duties of this position. You may be instructed by management to perform other duties as assigned.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Must be effective at listening to, understanding, and clarifying the concerns and issues raised by team members and guests.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with department heads and employees.
• Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and solving problems, as necessary.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred.

• One-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with high volume cooking helpful.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tribal Work Permit.
• Valid health card or Serve Safe equivalent

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel. Reach with hands and arms. Talk, hear, taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 to 70 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to tobacco smoke, flashing lights, and loud noises as found in a casino setting. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, repetitive motions, extreme cold or extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is an Equal opportunity employer. Consistent with federal law, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians applies Indian preference in employment. It is the policy of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians to give preference in hiring, promotions, and transfers into vacant positions to qualified applicants in the following order:
1) Kalispel Tribal Members;
2) Spouses of an enrolled Kalispel Tribal Member;
3) enrolled members of other Indian Tribes;
4) all other applicants.