Galley/Utility Hand

About the role

The utility hand is responsible for various job assignments including assisting in the galley and dining areas, and general housekeeping duties.

General Duties

• Assist cook with food preparation and serving as well as properly storing foods and protecting foods from contaminants.
• Prepare and sustain constant supply of fresh coffee.
• Rotate groceries and supplies, especially perishables.
• Unload and store groceries and supplies.
• Clean and organize galley area including walk-in freezer, pantries, and storage areas.
• Clean and sanitize galley equipment, dishes, utensils, and refuse containers.
• Clean and maintain orderliness of galley, galley areas, quarters, and other areas for which Taylors' employees are responsible, including making beds daily, regularly cleaning bathrooms, and sweeping, mopping, stripping, and waxing floors regularly.
• Invent and sack dirty linen to send to cleaners.
• Inventory and properly store incoming clean linen.
• Attend safety meetings, inspections, fire drills, and other meetings or demonstrations as required.
• Demonstrate skills and duties to new employees to help train them.
• Perform other duties as directed by management.

Requirements

• Required because of the various job assignments, the specific duties will vary, but at some time you may be required to perform some or all of the following:
• Absorb and apply basic education or instruction on proper hygiene practices.
• Absorb and apply basic instruction on prevention of food borne illness.

Job Skills Required

• Reading and writing skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to follow specific instructions.
• Ability to interact with people.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Frequent carrying up to 50 lbs.
• Frequent pulling/pushing up to 70 lbs.
• Frequent stooping.
• Frequent climbing stairs and ladders.
• Prolonged standing.
• Prolonged walking.
• Frequent grasping and reaching in all directions.
• Speaking – Good Communication skills for informing fellow employees or others specific information related to the job site, and in accurate, clear, loud, and/or swift manner.
• Hearing – Hearing skills that will enable emergency or exact information to be heard through alarms or verbal communication.
• Feeling – Manual Dexterity especially with fingertips.
• Equilibrium stability – Control of balance.
• Ability to support one’s own weight for swing rope transfers.
• Ability to pass drug screen and physical having no active communicable diseases.

Mental Requirements

• Specific Phobia-free - No fear of flying, heights, confined spaces, traveling by boat, or not seeing land.
• Alertness for safe and proper job performance.
• Ability to communicate and interact with people.

Usual Work Environment or Conditions

• Working and living in a remote, confined workplace for a lengthy time, sometimes as long as four weeks.
• Working 12-hour workdays or nights.
• Working uninterrupted work schedules that include holidays.
• Traveling to work throughout the Gulf Coast region.
• May sometimes be on standby, waiting for a new job assignment.
• May be transported by helicopter or boat to and from job site.
• Exposed to high heat in galley.
• Exposed to commercial cleaning chemicals.
• Exposed to operational machinery and equipment.
• Exposed to rig environment and drilling noises.
• Crucial medical services are not immediately available.
• Accesses to municipal services are not available.