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About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Job Overview

Responsible for the preparation of all Center meals in accordance with preplanned menus, within established budgets, and in compliance with government, corporate, and management directives. Acts as lead worker for assistant cooks, cook helpers, and Center work base learning students.

Work Model: Onsite

Responsibilities

Essential Duties & Job Functions:

• Prepare and cook the quantity of food required according to the menu and the number of students/staff.
• Assist in instructing cook helpers and student food services trainees in the safe, hygienic method of preparing and serving appetizing, appealing meals.
• Ensure work area is safe, clean, and sanitary at all times.
• Prepare foods as directed for special Center functions and visitors.
• Assist in cleaning kitchen work areas and the cafeteria following each meal.
• Ensure minimum waste through efficient storage, inventory, and food utilization.
• Help cook and serve meals, ensuring that prepared foods are held and served at proper temperatures, and all leftover foods are properly chilled and stored.
• Maintain accountability of students and property; adhere to safety practices and OSHA standards.
• Cultivate and maintain a climate on Center which is free of harassment, intimidation, and disrespect to provide a safe place for staff and students to work and learn.
• Promote student attainment of career success standards through modeling appropriate skills, mentoring students, monitoring skills acquisition and intervening when inappropriate behavior is observed.
• Promote and cultivate positive customer service.
• Performs all related duties as assigned.
  
  

Accountable For:

• Completing all mandated training requirements per government and management directives.
• Timely and cost-effective performance of duties.
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing with all levels of Center staff and students.
• Ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with all departments
• Timely completion and accuracy of all departmental work.
• Dealing with a variety of people in a professional, courteous manner in diversified situations.
• Adherence to established company safety policies and ability to work in a safe manner, using any required personal protective equipment (PPE) as may be required.
• Compliance with company standard operating procedures and personnel policies and procedures.
  
  

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Training in food preparation and 1-year experience.
• Must be able to obtain a Food Handler’s certificate with 30 days of employment.
• Successfully pass any background check and/drug test required on the contract.
• Ability to obtain & maintain a valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record.
  
  

Preferred:

• Previous experience in a commercial or institutional kitchen.
• Culinary Arts certification from an accredited institution.
  
  

Working Conditions:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
• Work may require occasional weekend and/or evening work.
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
  
  

Reasonable Accommodation:

CGS will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any if its subsidiaries, please email [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Chugach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.