Senior Food Service Worker

About the role

Oversees and participates in meal preparation and distribution activities, ensuring timely and efficient food service operations. Leads staff by assigning, monitoring, and reviewing work, while providing on-the-job training and guidance. Maintains inventory levels and conducts unit inventory to support daily operations and ensure adequate supplies.

Responsibilities

• Performs food service work using proper food preparation, handling, and sanitation methods and techniques in compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures promoting nutrition, health, and safety of clients.
• Sets up serving line by gathering utensils, food, and supplies needed for the serving process.
• Prepares meal trays by placing the correct portion of appropriate foods from serving pots or pans onto each tray.
• Loads completed meal trays or food pans into carts, delivers loaded carts to the proper location, and returns carts and trays to the kitchen after individuals have completed meals.
• Affords assistance to cooks by opening cans, slicing and chopping food items, preparing beverages, and making sandwiches or bulk salads.
• Cleans and disinfects a variety of surfaces, areas, and equipment such as meal carts, kitchen appliances, tables, and counters; sweeps and mops floors; empties trash containers; and performs other related duties to ensure the food preparation and serving areas are clean and sanitary.
• Uses brooms, wet or dry mops, sponges, pails or buckets, and mixtures of water and chemical solutions or disinfectant.
• Completes and maintains competency in required training.
• Communicates and interacts effectively with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, ages, and races.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Six months' experience in institutional or commercial food service work.

Qualifications

Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class. Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, employees can complete job duties of a similar kind not specifically listed.

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

To learn more about the comprehensive benefit package please visit our website at https://dhr.delaware.gov/benefits/.

Pay

Yearly: $30,905.00

Schedule

10:30am - 6:30pm