Catering Chef Needed

This position is at Impressions Catering located in Anchorage Alaska. It is NOT a remote site position.

Summary
The Catering Chef must be presentable and able to communicate professionally and with a can-do attitude to staff and customers. He/She must accurately and efficiently oversee catering events and enjoy preparing incredible food while working for this great growing company. This is a hands-on position.

Qualifications
Catering Chef experience of at least 3 years is required. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following but are not limited to:
• Experience in ordering, inventory, food cost, labor cost, scheduling, and budgeting
• Ability to communicate to staff and customers with a can-do attitude
• Must Have creative food presentation and knowledgeable on current food trends
• Must be Customer service driven
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multi-task
• Experience with Microsoft word and excel
• Flexible Schedule with the ability to work days, evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Formal culinary training is preferred, can substitute with proven years of culinary experience
• Employee must have a driver’s license with a clean driving record
• Employee must be able to pass a pre-hire drug screen and physical
• Handles, stores, and rotates all products properly
• Assists in food prep assignments
• Must know the proper safety culture

Supervisory Responsibilities
Will discuss at interview

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

ServSafe and Driver’s License TAMs card

Education and/or Experience

One year certificate from college or technical school; and at least three years’ experience as an executive chef

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports/orders. Ability to speak effectively before customers.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract and calculate figures and amounts such as discounts.

Other Qualifications

Work long hours and the ability to be on a moving railcar, some of the time.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions 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; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; balance while train in motion; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to stoop. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds up to chest level and 20 or less above chest level. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions 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 exposed to moving mechanical parts, heat, motion, cleaning chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is moderately loud.

 

About ESS Support Services

Even in the most remote locations, from offshore oil rigs in the Gulf to coastal logging camps in B.C., or feeding summer Cadet camps in the Yukon, ESS Support Services is there. We are the market leader in providing remote foodservice and related support assistance to clients, wherever their location, no matter how extreme the environment may be. Services extend across North America, and include such facilities as drill camps, mining camps, construction camps, permanent facilities, pipeline camps, offshore, forestry camps oil & gas installations, military situations and correctional facilities. We support every aspect of daily community life for our clients' resident workers -- 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

 

ESS Support Services offers competitive wages; which coupled with the benefits and 401k opportunities through our owner company, Compass Group, this could be just what you have been looking for in remote site work. For general information on benefits and programs:http://www.altogethergreat.com/

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ESS Support Services
Alaska Regional Office
201 Post Road, Anchorage, AK 99501