Offshore Cook Jobs

Offshore catering company in Lafayette, Louisiana, that caters for oil rigs that operate off Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, looks to recruit good candidates to fill cook and baker job openings on offshore platforms and drillships. One year prior experience of working on offshore oil rigs will be regarded as advantage, though no prior experience won't automatically mean no job. Do not submit your resumé unless you are a candidate that has a valid TWIC card and BOSIET/HUET certification.

What to do, if you are candidate that doesn't have cook's or baker's training? The answer is simple: you better get it along with all required entry level certification or apply for simpler job that really requires little to none prior experience. In offshore catering these may be vacancies of Dishwasher, Laundry, or Galleyhand. Many Camp Bosses or Chefs currently receiving big offshore salaries, once started as a Galleyhand, there's nothing wrong about that. Your battle for excellent salaries associated with working on offshore oil rigs in supervisory or administrative positions may start at the very bottom, but there's undisputable advantage of going this way: the more diverse and interchangeable skills a given candidate acquires in offshore catering, the more attractive recruit he or she becomes from the perspective of offshore employer's HR hiring managers.

To talk substantively, let's take another job advertisement by known consultancy, JSL International that recruits catering workforce for offshore oil rigs in Trinidad. Even if the provided Offshore Cook/Night Baker job description only reads that good candidate for this position will be responsible for baking a variety of breads, hot rolls, biscuits and pastries, serving breakfast meal and direct the work of kitchen staff, additionally it's stated that the experienced and highly motivated candidate needed for the offshore position of Offshore Cook/Night Baker on oil rigs would be someone who is required to posses hands-on experience in some of the offshore catering roles, such as Galleyhand, Chef, Baker, Offshore Cook, or Camp Boss job. Besides actually cooking/baking, the Night Cook/Baker is expected to perform wide range of administrative and supervisory duties and responsibilities, overseeing kitchen staff during night shift, ensuring continuity of the galley functioning and meals serving according to the asserted schedule, and monitoring the observance of safety and sanitary rules as outlined in the available instructions. This is the case, when the recruiter sees it as vital to hire for this catering vacancy an employee not only with experience of having worked offshore in different catering roles, but also capable to improve the shift's performance through using his/her strong leadership qualities. There's much more to Offshore Cook job that knowing how to cook nice food.

Sometimes we come across job advertisements that look rather specific. For example, another offshore catering company has recently been looking to hire Offshore Cook of Asian origin, good knowledge of both Malaysian and English languages, credentials confirming proper training as a cook (chef), but not necessarily with prior offshore experience, though onshore experience they asked for was school catering. As usual, all companies and recruiters regard OPITO BOSIET and HUET as advantage. This is because hiring in offshore catering either occurs quickly, or doesn't take place at all - employers like the candidates who are ready to start working at once, lack of inherence of mobility may have played crucial role for many greenhand offshore catering job seekers without them ever knowing it.

As you could further see, the workplace and position responsibilities and duties of offshore catering personnel often mixes functions or require interchangeability for the sake of ensuring the process of catering on offshore rig runs smoothly, efficiently, and all meals are served in timely manner without quality of food being affected.

The other Offshore Cook Related jobs in catering department might include:

Offshore Utility Hand – it's an equivalent of Roustabout, but in the kitchen. Responsibilities of Offshore Utility hand in the catering department include helping in the galley, in the meals serving area, and assisting the offshore cook or baker, when required.

Night Cook/Baker - another entry level position for cooks wishing to start career in the offshore catering industry. Further could be promoted to the position of steward/Head Cook. Duties and responsibilities: serving the midnight meals and breakfast, but also may be occasionally ordered to undertake the role of dishwasher/potwasher and clean the pans.

Offshore Day Cook/steward Job Description:

Offshore Day Cook/steward duties may include, but not limited to cooking, serving meals, assisting Chef in ordering and keeping record of the needed food ingredients & groceries, managing subordinate personnel and scheduling their work in the galley and meals serving area, convening safety meetings and updating catering personnel on safety, sanitary, and health protection issues.

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