Assistant Cook 2026

Job description

Previous at-sea fish processor experience and current Alaska Food Worker card required. Excellence. Innovation. Integrity. Passion. General Description: Assistant cooks work half of their shift as a fish processor and the other half assisting the cook with galley responsibilities. Galley responsibilities are assigned by the cook and may include meal and/or snack preparation, prep cook, cleaning, housekeeping and laundry duties for up to 38 crewmembers. Personal hygiene, food handling safety, and sanitation regulations in food preparation, service and storage must be followed. While working in the factory, assistant cooks may move raw fish through the various factory stations using machinery and conveyors, sort, cut fish, remove guts, pack fish into pans, place pans in and remove pans from freezers, remove blocks of frozen fish from pans, bag the blocks, and stack bagged fish in the vessel’s freezer hold. Assistant cooks may also participate in the offload by stacking bags of frozen fish onto cargo nets for removal from the vessel, and backload supplies needed for the next fishing trip; this process may last longer than the regular 16.5 hours per day work schedule. Assistant cooks m...