Job Details
Job Description
Job Title: Prep Cook –2 Month Fixed Term Contract Team: Café Scope: Individual Contributor, ES2
Experience:
2+ years Location: Ventura, CA
Compensation:
$25.50–$26.00 per hour The Prep Cook supports the culinary team by preparing, portioning, cooking, baking, and presenting a variety of hot and cold menu items for Breakfast, Lunch, Grab ’N Go, and occasional special or catered events. This role includes producing in‑house baked goods—such as muffins, cookies, quick breads, and pastries—under the direction of the Café’s Cooks, Bakers, and Chefs.
This position also plays a key role in maintaining a clean, organized, and safe kitchen.
Responsibilities:
include dishwashing, deep cleaning, equipment upkeep, proper storage of ingredients, and strict adherence to sanitation standards. Flexibility with scheduling is required. Daily reliability, punctuality, and a positive team attitude are essential.
What You:
’ll Do: Support daily culinary and baking production as assigned by supervisors.
- Prepare ingredients and execute menu items accurately and on time.
- Assist with garde‑manger preparation such as dressings and chia pudding.
Set up and break down breakfast and/or lunch service, including displays and dishwashing.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of knife cuts (julienne, dice, mince).
- Ensure stations and service areas are fully stocked and ready by deadline.
Properly store all food ingredients, ensuring labeling, dating, and rotation.
- Follow allergen labeling standards for all prepared items.
Consistently follow safety practices, including safe handling of ovens, mixers, and equipment. Work from prep lists or verbal instructions to complete daily culinary and baking tasks.
- Communicate clearly to ensure accuracy and consistency in production.
- Maintain clean, organized workspaces and support cleaning routines across the kitchen.
- Assist with receiving and putting away deliveries and pantry items.
Foster a positive, collaborative, and service-oriented environment.
Who You Are:
Passionate
about:
contributing to an inclusive, safe, and welcoming workplace. Adaptable and comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Influential with strong communication
skills:
in challenging or high-pressure moments. Proactive, dependable, and committed to following through on
responsibilities:
Service-minded, with a strong sense of hospitality and teamwork. Motivated toward continuous personal development and growth. Self-reflective and aware of your impact on others and the workplace culture. Inclusive, with
experience:
working respectfully across differences.
Experience:
You Bring: Minimum 2 years of culinary and/or baking
experience:
, or equivalent training. Commitment to racial justice, equity, and creating an inclusive environment. Ability to follow instructions, production schedules, and baking timelines with precision. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Strong attention to detail in both savory and baking applications.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize in a high-volume kitchen. Excellent service
skills:
and professional demeanor during service or events. Genuine enthusiasm for collaboration and creativity in both savory and sweet food preparation. Physical
Requirements:
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs repeatedly and carry items up to 50 feet. Ability to stand for long periods and perform repetitive motions (bending, lifting, chopping). Ability to wash dishes for extended time periods. Must be able to work in a small, sometimes loud space.
Compensation:
&
Benefits:
Hiring Range: $25.50–$26.00 per hour (depending on
experience:
and
skills:
). Patagonia assigns
compensation:
based on local market data and individual
qualifications:
.
Benefits:
Patagonia offers a comprehensive
benefits:
package, including medical, dental, vision, retirement and leave of absence plans. Benefit plans may vary slightly depending on the nature of your employment. Workplace Location Overview This position is On-Site, requiring employees to work at our Ventura/Reno office during standard business hours. Employee Conduct All employees are expected to support a positive, cooperative, and professional work environment with coworkers, customers, and vendors—aligned with Patagonia’s mission to save our home planet.
Equal Employment
Opportunity:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law. Patagonia’s Mission Statement We're in business to save our home planet.
Our Reason for Being At Patagonia, we appreciate that all life on earth is under threat of extinction. We aim to use the resources we have—our business, our investments, our voice and our imaginations—to do something
about:
it. Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing—as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, mountain biking and trail running. These are silent sports. None require an engine; rarely do they deliver the cheers of a crowd.
In each, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection with nature. As the climate crisis deepens, we see a potential, even probable end to such moments, and so we’re fighting to save them. We donate our time, services and at least 1 percent of our sales to help hundreds of grassroots organizations all over the world so that they can remain vigilant, and protect what’s irreplaceable.
At the same time, we know that we risk saving a tree only to lose the forest—a livable planet. As the loss of biodiversity, arable soils, coral reefs and fresh water all accelerate, we are doing our best to address the causes, and not just symptoms, of global warming. Staying true to our core values during forty-plus years in business has helped us create a company we're proud to run and work for.
To stay in business for at least forty more, we must defend the place we all call home.
