Banquet Cook (Part-time / Full-time)

Are you an energetic, organized, detail-oriented, and creative culinary enthusiast with experience working in a hotel or restaurant setting? Are you willing to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic environment while maintaining the highest standards of quality and hospitality? You might just be the one we need. Red Deer Resort & Casino is looking for a Banquet Cook (Part-time / Full-time) to join our culinary team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare and cook a variety of dishes for banquets, buffets, and special events according to event orders and menu specifications.
• Ensure consistency in taste, presentation, and portion control.
• Assist in carving stations and live cooking demonstrations if required.
• Adjust recipes and food quantities based on event size and dietary requirements.
• Work collaboratively with the culinary team to execute large-scale meal preparation efficiently.
• Assist with plating and setting up banquet buffets or plated meal services.
• Support other cooks and kitchen staff as needed.
• Maintain a clean and organized workstation, ensuring compliance with food safety regulations.

Education, Qualifications, & Requirements

• Minimum one year of culinary experience in a high-volume, full-service restaurant or hotel
• Food Safety Course is an asset
• Demonstrated knowledge of food and catering trends, quality, production, sanitation, food cost controls, and presentation required
• Knowledge of methods and procedures for serving food, principles of sanitation, and principles of safe food handling in required
• Must have a high level of creativity and reliability and attention to detail
• Excellent work ethic; driven, organized, good administration skills, dependable, flexible, availability to pick up or volunteer for shifts as required to maintain operational requirements
• Must be fluent in English, both written and oral
• As a condition of employment, associates are to have a criminal record check prior to their first day of work

Work Environment

• Able to stand and walk repeatedly over the course of a shift
• Ability to tolerate exposures to heat, cold and water
• Ability to work in a noisy and distracting environment.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, there may be stooping, kneeling, bending, reaching and crouching
• Regularly exposed to, including but not limited to, hazardous situations and conditions that produce cuts or minor burns.

Hours of Work

• The hours of work for this position will vary depending on operational requirements but will include early morning, evening and late night, as well as weekends and holidays.
• This role is available as (Part-time / Full-time), depending on scheduling needs.

We offer a competitive salary, benefits package, and the opportunity to be part of a vibrant and growing hospitality team. If you are a passionate Cook with a flair for creativity and a dedication to culinary excellence, we invite you to apply for this exciting position.

The Red Deer Resort & Casino is an equal opportunity employer and encourages individuals interested in this position to submit a resume. All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada. The successful candidate will be subject to criminal record checks and/or other background checks. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. We appreciate and consider all applications; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.