About
OCEAN GALLEY, LLC
Training & Job Placement
The Culinary Training and Job Placement program at Ocean Galley, LLC is a 4-week program that prepares adults facing barriers or unskilled for offshore employment to sustain secure and stable careers. Our program provides critical culinary and professional offshore skills needed for cooks to thrive in the offshore food service industry.
Culinary Curriculum USCG
The program includes “hands-on” training instructed by a Culinary Instructor. All students will complete the ServSafe Food Manager’s Certification Course. Other courses include knife skills for fruit, vegetables, and fresh herbs; stock and sauces; cooking techniques and methods; baking and pastry art; and management skills.
The students are also taught the importance of job-readiness skills such as punctuality, computer literacy, grocery ordering, positive work behavior, and teamwork.
Prior to the training program, candidates must meet the kitchen’s standards for attitude and literacy. In addition, candidates must be drug free.
Graduates of the training program will be motivated, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and ready to be part of the team at your foodservice or hospitality business.
Training Courses
Curriculum
Water Survival
This course is designed to broaden the emergency skills and knowledge of the individual which may travel on or over water as part of their work assignment. Classroom & online attendance will study these life surviving and preparation skills to certify them for the offshore industry.
Passport, TWIC Card & MMC
The Transportation Worker Identification Credential, also known as TWIC is required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act for workers who need access to secure areas of the nation’s maritime facilities. A passport is the only acceptable document that will allow you to enter any country in the world. When traveling, it’s important to have all of your documentation to go through customs without any trouble. The Merchant Mariner Credential is a credential issued by the USCG in accordance with guidelines of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch-keeping for Seafarers to United States.
Servsafe Food Handler
The ServSafe program provides food safety training, exams and educational material to foodservice industry. Each member of the offshore catering group, must have a food handler certification card to work in the galley.
Hospitality
Hospitality means extending a welcome to travelers or offering a home away from home with great house keeping, a segment of service that support workers and visitors onboard.
Third Party Staffing Hub
From our wide pool of qualified training personnel our experience will ensure the provision of quality services across operations, administration, and HSEQ departments. We take great pride in training thousands of catering and hospitality candidates each year for careers in the maritime sector. Our objective is to provide a constant stream of qualified professional catering and hospitality staff to attend to the needs of crews and contract workers.
Merchant Mariners Credential
Culinary
Healthy Meals
As an offshore chef, you prepare menus for the oil rigs, work vessels & barges. Our training courses cover a wide range of cuisines ranging from Italian, Filipino, Asia, Brazilian, Caribbean and vegan cuisines. As well as the famous Louisiana Creole / Cajun meals.
Baking Techniques
Baking is a dry heat cooking method in which an item is cooked in hot, dry air in an enclosed space where air can move around the food freely inside a closed oven at temperatures of at least 300F.
Culinary Experience
Culinary Safety
Mission
We Go
to extraordinary lengths to ensure food preparation is safe, but we are equally passionate about delivering trained Cooks, Galley Hands and Utility Hands to fulfill the job.
We are focused
on nutritional, tasty and high-quality offshore food. A satisfying meal can heighten morale and fuel crew productivity even in the most remote and challenging offshore environments.
We provide
experienced trained employees for offshore catering agencies customized for their clients. It is important to develop skilled and talented employees, therefore fuel their passion to go beyond the norm.
Philosophy
Our philosophy at Ocean Galley is to uphold values that reflect exemplary service and policies to prepare workers to perform safe practices for the offshore industry.
Curriculum
Our curriculum considers disparities in food access and honors the importance of traditional foods and food preparations, whether cooking for athletes, offshore crews, or vegan diets. Our Cooks become proficient in utilizing alternative and whole-food ingredients. A strength of our program is the inclusion of business skills and day-to-day operations needed to succeed as an offshore cook.
We believe
in taste and not waste, achieved by training cooks to follow a well-planned menu cycle. Which not only taste great but enhances a healthy balanced diet for crews.
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Contact
- 4331 Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA, USA
