Description:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Cooking Recipes, Testing and Refining 50% Innovation Brainstorms 20% New Ingredient Procurement & Grocery Shopping 10% Writing Recipes 10% Collaborating with Dietitian and Culinary Operations 15% Large Batch Testing & Shelf Life Testing 5% Position Summary The Culinary R&D Cook will work directly with VP of Food Innovation & Snap Kitchen’s R&D Chef to bring new dishes to the menu and improve existing recipes. This person will be supporting the R&D Chef with supply chain, recipe development, recipe testing, shelf life testing, seeking out interesting ingredients and participating in creative brainstorms around new food dishes for Snap meals. The Culinary R&D Cook will also work closely with Snap’s Registered Dietitian to ensure that recipes in process are within nutrition and ingredient standards. This role requires a passion for food & health, creativity, a keen focus on detail, and overall organization. This is a full-time position that will work primarily out of the test kitchen located in the Triangle store. Key Accountabilities • Ingredient sourcing and shopping for development needs. • Daily Cooking to create, test and perfect innovative new recipes under the direction of VP of Food Innovation. • Collaborate with in house dietitian. • Participate in brainstorms and collaborative conversations about food, health trends, and techniques. • Collaborate with Executive Concept Chef. • Collaborate with Culinary Operations Senior Manager to test recipe viability. • Accurate and Organized development notes to write recipes. • Understand Snaps portions all food items. Complies with all portion sizes, quality standards, department rules, policies and procedures. • Utilizes kitchen equipment to prepare food items such as: knives, slicers, whips, pots, pans, warmers, steamers, grills, ovens, etc. • Ensures proper food temperatures are maintained and food is stored correctly. • Keeps workstation and equipment clean, organized, and sanitized. • Follows and upholds all health codes and sanitation regulations. • Understands and operates basic kitchen equipment. • Performs other ad hoc duties assigned.

Requirements:

• Minimum two years of formal culinary experience, with a passion for healthy eating and natural ingredients. • This role would be ideal for a highly creative recent graduate with a passion for healthy food. • Experience working in a computer network environment utilizing Microsoft Word and Excel programs. • Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. • Ability to speak and understand English. • Ability to work a Monday-Friday, normal business hours and special tasting events. • Ability to travel to other Snap Kitchen markets/production kitchens.

Additional Info:

Physical Demands 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms and talk or listen carefully. • The employee frequently is required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and climb or balance. • The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. • The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. • Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.