School Cook (Location: Tampines)

Position: School Cook (Location: Tampines_ Reporting To: Executive Chef Direct Reports: Kitchen Assistant Reporting to the Chef of the assigned pre-school and working closely with the Kitchen Team, this position will be responsible for maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen and to be responsible for the preparation and cooking of a well-balanced and nutritious children’s menu for morning snacks, lunch and afternoon snack. Job Role & Responsibilities: • Maintain food safety and sanitation standards. • Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing and mixing ingredients • Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh • Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry and other foods • Present, garnish and arrange final dishes • Occasionally serve food • Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment and dishes • Handle and store ingredients and food • Ensure food is hygienically stored and food storage areas are kept clean. • Ordering stock in line with requirements, keeping accounts and budget control. • Maintaining correct stock levels, ensuring stock rotation and ensuring all stocks are clearly labeled to include expiry dates. • Ensure all kitchen equipment are cleaned before and after use. • Keeping track freezers and refrigerators at the correct temperature. • Adhere to the Health Promotion Board Guidelines during the preparation, cooking and serving of all food. • Ensuring the effective and regular removal of waste materials to the designated waste bins. • Any other Ad-Hoc duties given by superiors • Requirements: • Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness • Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes • Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, dishwashers, management and sometimes school staff. • Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment • Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike • Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant • Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing • Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle extreme heat and work shifts • Must have at least 2 years of relevant cooking experience, preferably in pre-school or childcare setting • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Able to work well independently as well as within a team • Able to do basic calculations.