Food Service Worker Cafeteria, University, Per Diem, Mixed Shift

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $15.00 - $23.41. Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule

• Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
• Mixed Shift (8 Hours)

About the Role

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where you can build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community, and each other.

Responsibilities

• Assembles, portions, labels, and restocks foods for cafeteria services.
• Provides appropriate and hospitable service to customers.
• Maintains sanitation of cafeteria and performs warewashing duties.
• Assists in training other food service workers.
• Prepares area for food serving, including setting up steam tables and service areas with hot food items, salads, desserts, fruits, breakfast foods, etc.
• Prepares and portions salads, desserts, slices meats, and prepares deli items such as sandwiches, mixed salads, and cheese.
• Replenishes food items as necessary and makes coffee.
• Participates in cafeteria special events.
• Serves food in prescribed quantities according to food service standards.
• Takes temperatures before and during meal service.
• Informs production if a menu item is running low.
• Stocks cold supply before, during, and after each meal service.
• Performs necessary cleanup duties after meals, breaks down lines, and puts food away in accordance with approved safe food handling methods.
• Obtains needed supplies from the main kitchen and stores.
• Cleans all working areas and equipment according to departmental standards and health and safety regulations.
• Maintains general cleanliness and order of the cafeteria.
• Washes and stores all serviceware.
• Uses cash register to record payments received for food items purchased, calculates total charge for each purchase, and makes change as appropriate.
• Handles charge slips and exercises care in handling money to avoid errors.
• Closes out register and reconciles all transactions.

Requirements

• Equivalent to completion of two years of high school.
• Ability to carry out instructions and procedures that are standardized.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English.
• Understands basic weights and measures.
• Understands basic mathematical functions.

This position may have a signing bonus available; a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.