Cook - Phoenix, United States - Department Of Health And Human Services

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    Summary



    This position is located in the Dietary Department of the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. A Cook Wage Grade 6 is responsible for performing a wide variety of food service and cooking functions including food preparation, sanitation, and service duties. The incumbent performs tasks with several steps, and routinely follows established patterns of work. The incumbent prepares items for regular and modified diets and identify foods to be served on commonly prescribed diets.



    Duties

    • Sets up and serves cafeteria lines and tray lines with hot and cold food items including breakfast items, entrees, vegetables, soups, sauces, salads, desserts, breads, beverages, and condiments.
    • Assembles and weighs or measures ingredients, and prepares food items such as eggs, breakfast meats, cooked cereals, sandwiches, grill items, vegetables, broiled meats, soups, sauces, gravies, pureed foods, convenience foods, salads, gelatins, fruit cups, and hot and cold beverages.
    • Transports soiled dishes to the dish room after meals. Cleans sanitizes, and stores dishes, trays, and silverware by setting up the dish dishwashing, filling dish machine tanks, maintaining dish machine water and detergent levels, loading, unloading, stacking, and storing dishes and silverware, and cleaning dish machine inside and out.
    • Directs and instructs as necessary Food Service Workers assigned in simpler preparation, service and clean-up activities.