Food Production Team Lead

Looking to take the next step in your Food Service Career? Memorial Hospital in Belleville has an opening for a Food Production Team Lead.

Schedule

• 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Rotating weekends and holidays

About the Role

Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care, including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI, an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital, and a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence.

The Food & Nutrition Department is responsible for providing high-quality nutrition services to patients, staff, and visitors daily. Services also include vending machines and meeting/special event catering.

The Team Lead position provides assistance to the Supervisor in Patient Services in daily operational functions and/or the production manager in the Commissary Kitchen. This role ensures patients receive the correct diet as ordered by the physician, screens food allergens, and manages modified diets. The position is responsible for coaching and training new catering associates, diet techs, and cold commissary workers, as well as opening and closing the patient services area or Commissary Kitchen.

Responsibilities

• Has knowledge of all special/modified diets.
• Assists Diet Techs and Catering Associates with meal selections by providing guidance/training based on prescribed diet order and diet/allergen restrictions.
• Assists various positions to ensure quality, productivity, and timely delivery of service.
• Reviews tray tickets, allergy alerts, performs tray assessment audits, 5S Audits, standards audits, sanitation audits, and galley audits on nursing units. Shares results with staff and monitors action plans.
• Opens and closes the Patient Services area and/or the Commissary Kitchen in the absence of a supervisor.
• Demonstrates/teaches “Standard Work” processes and meal delivery program standards to Diet Techs and Catering Associates. Provides encouragement, feedback, and mentoring to trainees.
• Assesses performance and behavioral skills; provides feedback on annual performance evaluations.
• Provides guest service recovery to nursing staff, production staff, supervisory staff, patients, families, and customers of the Commissary Kitchen.
• Demonstrates/teaches safe food handling, Infection Control Prevention, and basic computer software applications.
• Monitors food quality during meal service, focusing on food and equipment temperature compliance. Tracks statistics needed for monthly reporting.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• No prior supervisor experience required (2-5 years preferred).
• Serve Safe certification (preferred).

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available on the first day of the month after hire.
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC.
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution.
• 401(k) plan with BJC match.
• Tuition Assistance available on the first day.
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Paid Time Off benefit combining vacation, sick days, holidays, and personal time.
• Adoption assistance.