Welcome to The Omni Homestead Resort & Spa, where our employees are what make us unique. Since 1766, we have offered guests the opportunity to enjoy Southern hospitality at its best. Located in the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia, we are a four-season resort that boasts superb restaurant dining experiences, championship golf, spa services, winter sports, and numerous activities ideal for families and corporate outings.

The Omni Homestead Resort & Spa’s associates enjoy a dynamic and exciting work environment, comprehensive training and mentoring, along with the pride that comes from working for a company with a reputation for exceptional service. We embody a culture of respect, gratitude, and empowerment day in and day out. If you are a friendly, motivated person with a passion to serve others, the Omni Homestead Resort & Spa may be your perfect match.

As a Cook, your primary responsibility will be to provide properly cooked and presented food in any outlet, commissary, or banquet production.

Responsibilities:

• Awareness of all safety precautions and procedures to ensure a safe atmosphere for guests and employee partners.
• Prepares all food items according to standard recipes and/or as specified on guest check to ensure consistency of product.
• Visually inspects, selects, and uses only food items ideal for cooking, in preparation of all menu items.
• Checks and controls the proper storage of product, monitoring age and condition of all food items to rotate and maintain the highest quality.
• Keeps all refrigeration equipment, storage, and working areas clean and clutter-free, complying with health department regulations.
• Prepares daily requisitions for supplies and food items for production.
• Reads and employs math skills to follow recipes.
• Ensures all equipment is clean and in working condition.
• Demonstrates basic knife skills and possesses basic knowledge of kitchen operation.
• Demonstrates basic kitchen equipment knowledge.
• Possesses a basic understanding of the English language and demonstrates ability to make basic food product identification.
• Possesses an intrinsic desire to become a Culinarian in all aspects.
• Demonstrates basic verbal, reading, and writing communication skills such as describing food, reading and writing prep lists, recipes, labels, instructions, or reading operating manuals.
• Possesses some knowledge of meat and fish cooking.
• Demonstrates basic understanding of kitchen cleaning chemicals and American regional cooking.
• Demonstrates ability to assist all fellow Cook 3’s.

Tools And Equipment:

• Cooking utensils and equipment, pots, pans, dishware, silverware, glassware, food slicing machine, knives, oven, grill/stove burners, microwave appliances.

Working Environment:

• Interior of hotel, in restaurant and kitchen areas, with exposure to humidity, steam, and extreme temperatures.
• Exposure to food and beverage hazardous cleaning chemicals.
• Exposure to food items and beverages.

Qualifications:

• For Cook 1 & 2 positions, previous culinary experience in a commercial type kitchen is required.
• For Cook 3 positions, previous kitchen experience is helpful but not required.
• Unexpired certification in ServSafe.

Omni Hotels & Resorts is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster and the following link is the OFCCP's Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination policy statement.

If you are interested in applying for employment with Omni Hotels & Resorts and need special assistance to apply for a posted position, please send an email to applicationassistance @ omnihotels . com.

• Comprehensive training and mentoring.
• Dynamic and exciting work environment.
• Opportunity to work for a company with a reputation for exceptional service.

• Previous culinary experience in a commercial type kitchen.
• Basic kitchen operation knowledge.
• Basic knife skills.
• Ability to follow recipes and employ math skills.
• Basic knowledge of meat and fish cooking.
• Understanding of kitchen cleaning chemicals.
• Basic communication skills in English.