Hospital Catering Cook

Hospital Catering Cook

Join the Nutrition Services team at Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, Montana, and help deliver exceptional dining experiences for patients, visitors, caregivers, and special events. As a Hospital Catering Cook, you'll prepare and present high-quality meals, refreshments, and specialty menu items while supporting our mission of compassionate care.

In addition to catering services, you'll support hospital culinary operations by assisting with patient, retail, and caregiver meal production as needed. You'll prepare recipes according to standardized procedures, maintain food safety and quality standards, and contribute to efficient kitchen operations.

This role offers the opportunity to develop skills in catering, large-scale food production, menu execution, and healthcare hospitality while working alongside a supportive team dedicated to serving others. Bring your passion for food and hospitality. Create meaningful experiences. Build your future with us.

St. Vincent Regional Hospital delivers compassionate, quality care to the people of Montana and Northern Wyoming, as it has for more than 125 years. In addition to 30 regional clinics, we offer a number of progressive specialty services. St. Vincent even has a special "hospital within a hospital" just for children, St. Vincent Children's Hospital.

Job Function: Performs a variety of food production duties under general supervision.

Essential Functions:

• Prepares and cooks food, serves customers, completes other duties as assigned.
• Follows recipes and/or instructions in the preparation of food items
• May prepare bulk food items, large scale production, line cook or complete assembly of specialty meals and catered items
• Maintains an organized and sanitary working environment
• Maintains proper quantities of production with appropriate rotation of product
• Interacts with customers in any venue-catering, retail outlets or patient care
• May be required to deliver patient meals, cashier, stock, use automatic and manual ware-washing machines

Skills:

• Food Handling
• Food Safety and Sanitation
• Food Production
• Follows Instructions
• Recipes ability to understand and execute
• Reading
• Organizing
• Communication

Qualifications:

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work (required only in the states of Utah and Idaho).
• Demonstrated ability to read and communicate effectively in English.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize safe food handling techniques, in all applications
• Understands workflow, prioritizes, uses timelines, understands deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)
• Understands and prepares food according to modified diets using appropriate techniques where applicable (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to utilize commercial cooking equipment (preferred)

Physical Requirements:

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Location: Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital

Work City: Billings

Work State: Montana

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$19.31 - $25.11