Summer Camp Head Cook
It's an open secret that the head cook knows everything that goes on at Camp Gallagher. Your central location in a beautiful, open-air kitchen, the delicious and nutritious food you serve, and the fun and joy you imbue into your work brings campers and staff flocking to your porch for jokes, snacks, and tidbits of interesting information throughout the day.
As the head cook, you practice creativity and careful planning in setting the menus, ordering within a budget, making healthy scratch made food with attention to varied dietary requirements, keeping the kitchen and dining areas clean and organized, and working with anyone else who assists in the kitchen, both campers and staff.
One of the best parts of cooking at Gallagher, though, is that you get to be a part of the general fun of camp life. From joining in camp-wide games to singing at campfire, you don't only know what's going on but you're a part of what's going on. When the campers and staff venture out on their overnight adventures, you stay with the director team, on call for any needs that arise, whether that be joining a lodge who needs an extra staff member to deep cleaning the kitchen. While the kitchen is your workshop, Camp Gallagher is your playground, and you work and play well with people of many ages and interests, while also appreciating some time alone to complete essential kitchen duties.
Essential Job Functions:
- Manage the daily operations of the camp food and dining service.
- Oversee the planning and safe, efficient preparation of nutritionally balanced camp meals, snacks, and pack-out food, including attending to environmental and dietary needs.
- Ensure the service of camp meals through directing the work of other employees.
- Plan menus, manage inventory, and order food, equipment, and supplies based on budget, enrollment, and environmental/dietary needs.
- Oversee and participate in the routine maintenance, sanitation, and upkeep of the camp kitchen, its equipment, and facilities in compliance with both ACA and Pierce County Health Department standards.
- Promote practices that seek to reduce waste, reuse items, recycle, and limit camp's overall carbon footprint as much as possible.
- Plan, coordinate, schedule, and supervise the work of other food service staff, and provide both formal and informal feedback to food service staff.
- Be a role model to campers and staff in your attitude and behavior.
Other Job Duties:
1. Participate enthusiastically in all camp activities, providing support and guidance to those assigned as leaders.
2. Participate as a member of the camp staff team to deliver and supervise evening programs, special events, overnights, and other all-camp activities and camp functions.
Relationships:
Head cooks often have direct relationships with the kitchen staff and will supervise food service workers.
Qualifications:
- At least 21 years of age.
- Have or be able to become certified in First Aid/CPR.
- Must submit health history record form prior to first day of work.
- Ability to interact with all age levels.
- Experience in institutional or large food service setting (preferred).
- Knowledge of and experience in food service: ordering, inventory, budgeting, food preparation, family-style serving, buffet-serving, cleaning, and institutional equipment.
- Current Food Handler's Permit.
- Ability to work within a budget and purchase supplies efficiently.
- Experience in supervision.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of current health and safety laws and practices is essential.
- Knowledge of and experience in preparation of special dietary foods.
Physical Aspects of the Position:
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
- Physical ability to lift and carry 50 pounds.
- Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards of the site and facilities and camper and staff behavior.
- Physical mobility and endurance to perform tasks while standing/walking for long periods of time (60 minutes or more).
- Ability to safely and properly use kitchen equipment.
- Ability to provide first aid and to assist campers and staff in an emergency.
- Willingness to live in a camp setting and work irregular hours delivering program in the environment available.
Job Type: Temporary
Salary: $76.00 per day
Schedule: mid-June to late-August