Job Description

Job Title:

Cook

PP-SRS-GRD:

C-7404-04

Location:

RAF Menwith Hill

Vacancy Number

264949

Open Date:

27 October 2025

Close Date

10 November 2025

Work Hours Per Week

39.00

Salary (Per Hour)

14.56

Several vacancies may be available - multiple selections may be made

We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join a premier team of at the , Royal Air Force (RAF) , United Kingdom.

What will be your primary role?

This position involves preparing a variety of simple dishes, including breakfast items (pancakes, sausage, eggs), burgers, vegetables, hot cereals, and broiled meats. Duties also include preparing soups, sauces, gravies, and cold sandwich fillings, as well as cooking convenience foods like frozen hash browns and chicken nuggets. You may also be responsible for making pizza. Food preparation tasks include chopping, slicing, measuring ingredients, assembling menu items, and stocking the salad bar. You will also portion food, store leftovers properly, and ensure recipes are followed to maintain quality and minimize waste. Maintaining a clean kitchen environment by washing and cleaning equipment is also expected.

For specific qualification requirements for the position, you can visit:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualification s/#url=WG-7400

We offer fantastic company benefits include:

Competitive salary:

the starting salary for this position is

14.56 an hour

Holiday:

25 days Annual Leave + UK Bank Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Pension Scheme

Free On-Site Parking

Employee extras such as:

Life Assurance scheme, Employee Assistance Program, Specialized Training, Development Opportunities, Fitness Facilities, Receive time off, cash, and honorary awards for significant contributions

Overview of our mission

U.S. Air Forces in Europe - United Kingdom (USAFE-UK), a forward detachment of USAFE, is headquartered at RAF Mildenhall, England a premier employer of over 1,200 local national employees with a right to work in the United Kingdom. Our jobs ranging from Administrative; Logistics; Trade and Labor (Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning (HVAC), electrician, plumbers, and general Maintenance); Civil Engineers, Lawyers, Doctors and Administrative and Management positions. The organization further serves as the focal point for overseas negotiations with His Majesty's government on a wide range of issues. Our team is dedicated to excellence, innovation, and the highest standards of operational readiness.

The 501st Combat Support Wing tracks its lineage back to the 501st Bombardment Group, which was activated June 1, 1944, at Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas. Almost 2,000 Airmen serving one wing with two groups, 14 squadrons, and 17 wing staff agencies. The 501st serves a community of more than 14,000 personnel spread across ten installations. The 501st CSW remains the only combat support wing in the USAF and carries on its storied heritage of generating combat missions around the globe and projecting diplomacy through its ten geographically separated locations across the United Kingdom, Norway and Cyprus. 501st Combat Support Wing Locations: RAF Croughton, RAF Fairford, RAF Welford, Blenheim Crescent, RAF Alconbury, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Molesworth, and Stavanger, Norway

The United States and the United Kingdom share a special bond nurtured over decades of commitment to our shared values of peace, security and prosperity. The depth of the US and the UK partnership will only grow as together we face the increasingly complex, high-end threats of today and tomorrow.

What are the Key Skills required for this role?

1. Experience and knowledge of the methods and procedures relating to food preparation/presentation gained by experience obtained working in a grill, snack bar, restaurant, club or similar food activity, along with the ability to season food and decide when foods are done by utilizing knowledge of various food characteristics.

2. Ability to follow oral and written instructions, work safely, and do simple arithmetic.

3. Knowledge of operating and cleaning food service equipment, and the ability to obtain a Food Handler's Certificate and/or complete food handler's training

4. Ability to frequently lift objects weighing up to 40 pounds and be able to continuously stand, walk, stoop, reach, push, pull and bend for long periods of time, to be able to satisfactorily complete a pre-employment physical.

What are the conditions of employment for this role?

1. You will be required to handle and safeguard sensitive information in accordance with applicable US and UK laws, rules and regulations.

2. You may be required to travel by military and/or civilian aircraft, and you may also be required to travel to the US or other country, in the performance of official duties or attend necessary training, this position may also be coded as mission essential.

3. You will be required to complete a 6-month probationary period.

4. Overtime may be required, and you may be assigned other duties not included in this position description, but that are appropriate to the grade and skill set of the incumbent.

5. You must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

6. Your hours of work will be 39 hours per week on an As Rostered schedule between 0630-1400 (this will be working any 5 days out of 7) where start & end times may be modified due to mission needs and in accordance with the organization's flexible working policies.

7. You will be working in a hot and noisy kitchen, exposed to steam, fumes and odors.

8. There is a danger of falling.

9. You will be exposed to extreme temperatures when entering walk-in refrigerators or freezer units and subject to possible cuts from knives or burns from steam, hot foods, stoves and hot grease and water.

10. You will be required to pass a pre-employment medical.

NOTE:

You will require a security clearance and a right to work in the UK.

This position is only available to UK Nationals. Applicants must hold UK citizenship and have lived in the UK for at least 8 years out of the last 10 years for this position. For additional information contact the LNDH team on 01638 544955. For additional information contact the LNDH team on 01638 544955.

Application:

https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/HiHn37upJw

Supporting Documents to be submitted via email to 100fss.fsmc6@us.af.mil

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to 29,527.68 per year

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 264949