Middlebury College is seeking individuals to join our dining team! As a Cook, you'll play a crucial role in preparing, cooking, and serving delectable dishes for our campus community while ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety, and sanitation.

These are full-time positions that come with fantastic benefits including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, retirement, tuition benefits. Check out all of details here: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits

This is a full time, benefits eligible, hourly position with a hiring range of $19.26 - $23.59 per hour. Shift and weekend wage differential is available, adding $1.00-$2.50 per hour additional pay for eligible shifts.

Why Join Our Team?

• Team-Oriented Environment: Collaborate with a passionate and supportive team.

• Growth Opportunities: Opportunities for professional development and continuing education fund.

• Benefits: Robust benefits, employment perks and paid time off for full-time employees.

Core Responsibilities:

• Food Preparation: Review production sheets and menus to prepare a variety of food items according to recipes and volume requirements.

• Ingredient Preparation: Prepare proteins, vegetables, fruits, and other ingredients for daily meal production, including salad bar items.

• Cooking: Cook and prepare food items at individual stations throughout the shift, following supervisor's instructions and production sheets.

• Collaboration: Work with kitchen staff to maintain timely and efficient meal service. Assist other cooks and dining staff as needed.

• Quality Control: Conduct taste tests and ensure food presentation meets quality standards before service.

• Service Setup: Set up service lines with fresh food to avoid shortages or excess.

• Sanitation: Maintain cleanliness of work areas and equipment to uphold sanitary kitchen procedures.

Requirements

• Education: High school degree or equivalent experience required. Culinary training through an accredited culinary school or vocational program preferred.

• Certifications: Must be Serve Safe certified or successfully pass the exam after hire date.

• Experience: Minimum of 1 year of previous food preparation experience required.

• Skills & Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge of quality volume food preparation and production using accurate measurement with standard recipes.

• Extensive knowledge of a variety of cooking methods and techniques, proper safe food handling practices, and skills.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

Must be able to lift 10-20 lbs. numerous times during the day and up to 50 lbs. several times each day. Must be able to push and pull up to 150 lbs. frequently. Must be able to lift items above waist level. Must be able to perform numerous manual tasks and use a variety of kitchen equipment in a safe manner. Requires long periods of time standing, as well as frequent bending and reaching. Back ground check required.

Other:

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Benefits

As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of sporting facilities (including the College's golf course and Nordic and alpine ski areas). The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:

• MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the College store, library privileges, and discounts at cultural and sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain campus buildings. Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees are eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same privileges as the employee card (except door access).

• Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.

• Access to our Partner Inclusion Program (https://www.middlebury.edu/human-resources/work-middlebury/partner-inclusion-program) that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury employees.

• A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our website by following this web link: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits (https://www.middlebury.edu/human-resources/self-service-resources/2024-benefits-information)

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Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.