Sawmill Creek Full Time Cook

Overview

$19.50/hour

Ages 18+

At Sawmill Creek, work is FUN! As a cook, you’ll maintain cleanliness and sanitation for all cookware items in our food and beverage locations and cook and prepare food items for our guests. You’ll also…

• Understand and adhere to all food hygiene and health safety regulations
• Cook and prepare food items, while ensuring speedy service and that only quality food items are prepared.
• Use correct portions to ensure proper food cost procedures are followed.

Some of our amazing perks and benefits:

• Paid training and FREE uniforms!
• FREE Admission to Cedar Point and our other properties!
• FREE tickets and discounts to local attractions!
• FREE tickets for family and friends!
• 20% discounts on food and merchandise!
• Employee-only ride nights, game nights, and FREE FOOD events!

Responsibilities

Cook – Handles various tasks such as prepping quality food products, presenting them in an attractive fashion based on prescribed company recipes, maintaining cleanliness and sanitation standards for all glassware, tableware, and cooking utensils and maintain a clean, safe, and orderly work area. This is a union position.

• Prepare and cook food items in accordance to company standards.
• Maintain a sanitary work area, adhering to all local and state health regulations.
• Ensure a quick pace of service and uphold quality food standards following correct portion control.
• Monitor and control safe food handling procedures, including: time/temperature control, sanitation, cross-contamination, product rotation, storage levels, and cooling procedures.
• Cleaning of work area and kitchen, including: sweeping, mopping, deck scrubbing, sanitizing, emptying trash, deep cleaning equipment, and organizing.
• Provide guest service according to Cedar Fair standards when serving guests or working with subordinates, including initiating guest interactions, answering questions and giving directions.
• Operate kitchen equipment in safe manner.
• Other duties as assigned. 

**EMPLOYEES HIRED INTO THE ABOVE POSITION WILL BE SOLICITED FOR MEMBERSHIP

BY THE MIDWEST REGIONAL JOINT BOARD UNION REPRESENTING SAWMILL CREEK.**

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Mandatory completion of Basic Food Safety and Sanitation Training and, if applicable, ServSafe Alcohol Training as provided. 
• Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a guest-focused and fast-paced work environment while providing exemplary guest service
• Ability to work collaboratively in team settings as well as working independently
• Ability to work nights, weekends, and holiday periods to meet business needs
• Ability to pass a mandatory (or random) drug test, per Company policy, unless prohibited by state or provincial law
• Ability to pass a background check, if 18 years of age or older, which may include, but is not limited to, credit, criminal, DMV, previous employment, education, and personal references, per Company policy, unless prohibited by federal, state, or provincial law