Cook

Reporting to: Area Supervisor

Location: Killarney Gardens, Cape Town

Purpose of the role

The cook will be responsible for preparing and cooking food according to recipes and quality standards, maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment, and ensuring food safety and sanitation.

Key Job Roles and Responsibilities

Preperation

• Prepare a variety of foods, such as meats, vegetables or desserts, according to the product recipe and supervisor’s instructions to use in cooking.
• Check quality of ingredients.
• Weight or measure ingredients according to recipe.
• Cut and clean ingredients to prepare for cooking or serving.
• Mix ingredients for dishes/sauces.
• Use manual or electric appliances to clean, peel, slice and trim foods.
• Inform supervisor when equipment is not working properly and when food and supplies are getting low.

Cooking

• Set up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment.
• Ability to operate machinery.
• Cook food in various utensils, ovens or grillers according to recipe instructions, continuously recording temperature, time and yields.
• Check food while cooking to stir or turn.
• Once cooked, wrap the food, or place in trays ready for assembly.
• Keep a sanitised and orderly environment in the kitchen.
• Keep record of the quantities of food used.
• Report any shortages on completion of recipe.
• Measure consistency.

Housekeeping

• Clean and sanitise work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes.
• Clean food preparation areas.
• Ensure good housekeeping practices in general.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Matric certificate
• Minimum 1 year experience working in a similar environment
• Industrial food preparation and processing equipment
• Cooking production procedures and methods
• Use of kitchen scales following training
• Knowledge of the assembly processes
• Production processes and methods

Personal Profile, Skills and Attitude:

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Team player
• Ability to multi-task
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Action orientated
• Ensure familiarity with and adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Ensure adherence to Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) regulations.
• Ensure compliance with all food safety, hygiene, and quality requirements.

Application

Qualifying interested applicants are requested to submit their applications to ***email_hidden***

Application Deadline: 04 September 2026

If you have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date for applications, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.