Line Cook

Great Wolf Lodge, Niagara Falls is Canada’s largest family indoor water park resort. Our little log cabin has theme suites, amazing attractions, fun daily events and activities, and delicious dining options. It’s a year-round world of play!

We take pride in creating an inclusive work environment in which all pack members are valued and celebrated. We are One Pack, committed to deepening our knowledge of each other’s backgrounds and making ourselves accessible to all members that need our support.

Apply today and Run with the Pack!

The Line Cook supports kitchen operations by assisting in food preparation, ensuring food quality, and maintaining cleanliness and safety standards. Responsibilities include preparing soups, sauces, and breaded items, following standardized recipes, organizing food supplies and utensils for the chef, and ensuring kitchen equipment remains clean and operational.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Team

• Willingness to accept the most effective role.
• Assist in food preparation by washing, peeling, cutting, and seeding fruits and vegetables, and cleaning, cutting, and grinding meats, poultry, and seafood.
• Prepare soups and sauces by stirring, straining, and following standard preparation methods.
• Bread food items by coating with crumbs, flour, or batter as required.
• Control recipes by accurately weighing and measuring designated ingredients.
• Support the chef by transporting food items, pans, kettles, and trays between workstations, stoves, and refrigeration units.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and compliant kitchen environment by cleaning work areas, equipment, and utensils, properly disposing of waste, and adhering to sanitation standards and legal regulations.
• Keep supplies stocked by inventorying items, requisitioning ingredients, verifying deliveries, and organizing storage areas.
• Ensure kitchen equipment remains in working order by following proper operating procedures, troubleshooting issues, performing preventive maintenance, and coordinating repairs when necessary.
• Close with an open mentality.
• Keep all areas in like-new condition and website ready.

Guest

• Ensure guests are greeted and acknowledged consistently, adhering to the 10/5 Rule.
• Communicate with guests in a professional and friendly manner.

Financial

• Protecting company assets by adhering to policies and procedures.

Qualifications & Traits

• Place a strong emphasis on personal and professional development by staying current through continued education, industry reading, and active participation in professional organizations.
• Demonstrate excellent multitasking and time management skills, effectively prioritizing and executing tasks with minimal supervision.
• Develop, implement, and monitor programs that ensure a safe and compliant work environment, including ergonomics, emergency response, injury and illness prevention, and hazard communication protocols.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of sanitation practices, taking all necessary precautions to ensure a clean food preparation environment.
• Manage inventory and equipment to support smooth and efficient kitchen or office operations.
• Hold a high school diploma or equivalent experience.
• Food handlers certificate required.

Physical Requirements

• Capable of walking, standing, sitting, crawling, bending, twisting, reaching up to and including above shoulder level, crouching/squatting, and kneeling, for the duration of your shift.
• Capable of climbing multiple flights of stairs. Dexterity of the fingers and hands with ability to squeeze hands, twist and rotate wrists and elbows.
• Ability to do weight bearing tasks with arms, ex. lifting/using heavy pans, baking sheets, food pans etc.
• Ability to work for extended periods in varying temperature ranges.
• Ability to work in coolers or freezers for short periods of time.
• Ability to do repetitive tasks for an extended period of time.
• Visual acuity to see colour, near vision ability, tactile, smell and tasting abilities.
• Capable of working in a loud environment.
• Ability to lift, push and pull up to 50lbs.
• Ability to lift 15lbs overhead.

Additional Requirements

Newly hired Pack Members must submit a completed police clearance to Human Resources. Employment may begin before the results are received, based on the Pack Member’s confirmation that they have no unpardoned criminal convictions. If the clearance reveals a conviction, the employer may terminate employment on a case-by-case basis, providing only the minimum notice required under the Employment Standards Act, 2000, with no additional notice or compensation.

Great Wolf Lodge is an equal opportunity employer. All applicable provincial and federal laws will be followed to ensure consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability or other classification protected by law. Great Wolf Lodge will make reasonable accommodations for persons with disability in accordance with applicable law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity, and that selection will be made on job related factors. If you require any accommodation in the application process, please contact us.