Utility Lead

Essential Responsibilities

• Be sure the team is in place and ready to work according to schedule.
• Checks all warewashing chemical and machine temperature levels to ensure they are meeting the standard.
• Reports to manager on duty of any discrepancies.
• Ensures the team is performing assigned tasks during meal times and following up with sanitation assignments through their shifts.
• Ensures employees follow their break schedules.
• Aid manager with feedback for performance reviews.
• Ensure the cleaning procedures checklist is complete in the dishroom, pulper room, and extruder rooms.
• Load and unload the dishwasher.
• Transport dishes, utensils, pots and pans and other smallwares to serving lines, pot racks, and catering storage.
• Sorts silverware into proper dispensers to ensure continuous availability throughout the meal period.
• Transports and sets up dishes, glassware, trays and utensils to the serving lines throughout the meal period.
• Washes/scrubs by hand and stores pots, pans, and utensils in order to ensure cleanliness and availability for future use.
• Maintains and sanitizes the dish machine & pot area, pulper room and extruder room.
• Monitors cleaning chemicals on the dish machine, pot sink, pulper room and extruder to ensure proper sanitation of equipment.
• Maintains temperature levels and reports any malfunctions to a manager.
• Sweep and mop floors as well as walk in boxes and storage rooms.
• Removes trash, recyclables and compostables and places in correct receptacles.
• Keeps the loading dock clean and organized.
• Assists receivers in down time.
• Breaks down and clean area of dish machine, pulper and extruders as instructed by task sheet posted at the dish room

Additional Responsibilities

• Familiar with the location and information on the MSDS that describes the cleaning chemicals used, and how to use them safely.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Organize workflow and ensure employees understand their duties or delegated tasks.
• Provide fair, constructive, and timely feedback.
• Communicate with the Associate Residential Manager to escalate performance or attendance issues.
• Participate in supervisory training opportunities.
• Maintain a safe, diverse, and inclusive work environment.

What You Bring

• High school degree or equivalent with 1 year of supervisory experience in a food service establishment.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly.

Required Qualifications

• High school degree or equivalent with 1 year of supervisory experience in a food service establishment.

Preferred Qualifications

• High School degree with 1-2 years supervisory experience in a food service establishment.
• Service Safe certified.

What You Will Get

• You’ll work at one of the world's most renowned liberal arts colleges, with incredible benefits, a stunning 420-acre campus, and a collaborative work environment.
• We want to hear from you if you are excited about this role!
• The pay for this position is $28.29 per hour, which represents the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range at the time of posting.
• Pennsylvania Criminal Clearance Required Swarthmore College requires a PA Criminal background check for all staff positions prior to the start of employment.
• We offer benefit plans starting at zero cost!
• Upon benefit eligibility, the College contributes 10% of an employee’s salary to their retirement account. Employees are 100% vested in their accounts on the date participation begins.
• 2026 Swarthmore Benefits Guidebook
• Retirement Plans
• Tuition Grant Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Paid Time Off (Staff)
• Holiday Schedule

Company Information

• Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility.
• Swarthmore Dining is dedicated to serving our community with nutritious and satisfying food in a welcoming environment every day.
• We are committed to inclusive dining by ensuring vegetarian, vegan, and accommodations for dietary restrictions are always available.
• As a self-operated dining program encompassing Residential Dining, we pride ourselves on providing a work-life balance that is often difficult to find in the restaurant industry.