Description

Are you interested in applying your skills to serve the seniors in your community? Our Sherwood Oaks team is looking for a chef with a drive for excellence and ability to lead and supervise a team. In this role, you will coordinate and assist the rest of the team in the preparation, service, and clean-up of food for retail operations, patient service, and/or catered events.

Located in Cranberry, just thirty minutes north of Pittsburgh, Sherwood Oaks is a personal care community settled into a beautiful landscape surrounded by lakes and gardens. Conceived in a culture of self-governance, Sherwood Oaks promotes health and personal independence as residents play an active role in designing their lives. Join our team’s mission of enriching the lives of our residents today!

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all catering, retail and patient service kitchen food production activities including, but not limited to: determining quantities to be prepared; appropriate food production methods and recipe adherence; appropriate portioning, plate assembly and merchandising; distribution of products to all points of service; food protection and storage techniques; inspection of purchased raw materials/supplies; completion and accounting of food production records.
• Perform quality accountability procedures both on an ongoing individual basis and in coordination with patient and non-patient managers/supervisors.
• Monitor performance of catering kitchen equipment, notify Food Service Management of malfunctions, initiate corrective action.
• Emphasize the importance of excellence in service guests and staff.
• Assist with supervision of sanitary maintenance of kitchen, performs daily cleaning tasks.
• Assist with human resource functions under the direction of Food Service Management.
• Instruct and assist all kitchen food production staff in preparation of products.
• Evaluate smell, taste, texture, temperature, appearance and recipe adherence of food produced.
• Ensure adherence to standards in all phases of operation to include retail, patient service and catering.

Qualifications

• HS diploma/GED required
• Two years quantity food prep. experience required 
• Formal culinary training with cert./degree preferred 
  
  Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
• Act 34 Criminal Clearance
• OAPSA
  
  UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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Our Values

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