Where a grill cook can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a grill cook already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Grill cooks prepare and present meat, vegetables and fish using grill equipment such as grills and rotisseries.
Also known as barbecue cook, grill section cook, grill section chef, rotisserie chef, barbecue chef, steakhouse cook, steakhouse chef, grill station cook, line cook, line chef, grill chef, grill station chef.
Service and sales workers 33 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: cook, 78%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A grill cook needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- receive kitchen supplies management skills
- use culinary finishing techniques assisting and caring
- maintain kitchen equipment at correct temperature handling and moving
- handover the food preparation area handling and moving
- use reheating techniques assisting and caring
- ensure cleanliness of food preparation area information skills
- maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment assisting and caring
- use food cutting tools handling and moving
- work in a hospitality team communication, collaboration and creativity
- store raw food materials handling and moving
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a grill cook does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- chef 79% covered · difficulty 24.6
- kitchen assistant 62% covered · difficulty 40.3
- pizzaiolo 60% covered · difficulty 43
- pastry chef 60% covered · difficulty 43.4
- head pastry chef 54% covered · difficulty 49.6
- private chef 51% covered · difficulty 51
- kitchen porter 36% covered · difficulty 64.4
- quick service restaurant crew member 29% covered · difficulty 69.3
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Grill cook is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a grill cook’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.