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Published on Apr 28 2024

Meal Cook

$13.67  per hour
Visa required: H-2A
From Aug 21, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024

3512 J. Patout Burns Road
Jeanerette, LA 70544
United States

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Job description

Job duties include preparing meals only for agricultural workers involved in sugarcane harvest, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner for approximately 200 employees; prep kitchen; clean-up; prepare food lists for worker meals; create menu; consider workers' tastes and specific food requests and tailor the menu accordingly, when feasible; work within the allotted food budget; keep kitchen inventory; special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions served; rotate and store food supplies; wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, and/or other cooking equipment; apportion and serve food to employees; work schedule is a split shift; hours are 5:00AM to 8:00AM and 4:00PM to 8:00PM, Monday - Sunday (7 days a week). Three months previous experience of meal preparing/cooking; repetitive movements, and frequent stooping; must be able to lift 50 lbs.; drug screening may be required upon hire and randomly (paid for by employer). Bonus may be paid at the end of contract at the discretion of the employer. Base hours offered is 49 hours; additional hours are usually offered during a busy season and may include an additional 10-40 hours of work.

Los deberes laborales incluyen preparar comidas solo para los trabajadores agrcolas que participan en la cosecha de caa de azcar, incluyendo el desayuno, el almuerzo y la cena para aproximadamente 200 empleados; preparar la cocina; limpiar; preparar listas de alimentos para las comidas de los trabajadores; crear el men; considerar los gustos de los trabajadores y las solicitudes especficas de alimentos y adaptar el men en consecuencia, cuando sea posible; trabajar dentro del presupuesto asignado de alimentos; mantener el inventario de la cocina; restricciones dietticas o nutricionales especiales, o el nmero de porciones servidas; rotar y almacenar suministros de alimentos; lavar ollas, sartenes, platos, utensilios y/u otro equipo de cocina; dividir y servir alimentos a los empleados; el horario de trabajo es un turno de 5:00AM - 8:00AM and 4:00PM - 8:00PM, de lunes a domingo (7 das a la semana). Tres meses de experiencia previa en la preparacin/coccin de comidas; movimientos repetitivos y paradas frecuentes; debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras; puede ser necesario realizar pruebas de deteccin de drogas al contratar y al azar (pagadas por el empleador). La bonificacin puede pagarse al final del contrato a discrecin del empleador. El horario base ofrecido es de 49 horas; normalmente se ofrecen horas adicionales durante una temporada de mucho trfico y pueden incluir entre 10 y 40 horas adicionales de trabajo.

Employer Contact Info

+13372781217

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(and in some states, more than 8 hours a day), can get paid "time and a half?"

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