Dish Room Associate — Fast-Paced, Evening & Weekend Shifts

Swarthmore College; Swarthmore (Delaware County); On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Swarthmore College is seeking a part-time, 9-month Dishwasher to support dining services during the academic year. The role involves cleaning, sanitizing, and maintaining dishware, pots, and utensils while coordinating with cooks and staff to ensure a steady supply of clean wares throughout meals.

The position requires a high school diploma, customer service experience, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Customer service experience.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Scrapes foods from pots and pans
• Scrubs, rinses and sanitizes according to Serv-Safe procedures
• Air dries all and returns to proper storage locations
• Continually monitors pot wash sinks for proper water temperatures, detergent and sanitizer levels
• Continually check in with cooks to see they have needed vessels.
• Cleans and sanitizes utensils and return to proper locations
• Scrapes food scraps from dishes and places them in designated racks for ware washing
• Empties liquids from cups/mugs and places in racks for ware washing
• Transports silverware bins from front of house and transfers to wash racks
• Places clean small wares in proper transport racks after they go through dish machine
• Place clean silverware on the sorting table .
• Transport clean small wares to serving lines in a timely manner to insure plates, bowls, glasses, mugs, silverware are available throughout the meal periods.
• Sorts silverware
• Keeps work area wiped clean of garbage and excess water.
• Sweeps & mops kitchen, walk in boxes, serving area, dining rooms according to daily cleaning lists
• Takes trash, recycling and compost to designated dumpsters/containers in loading dock area
• Keeps loading dock broom swept and organized
• Assists receivers in down times
• Cleans and sanitizes dish machine, transport dish dolly to serving lines and clean silverware to sorting table
• Clean and sanitize silverware retrieval area in servery
• Performs other assignments as directed by the utility supervisor and other managers.

Skills

Customer service experience

Fast-paced environment

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Swarthmore College is seeking a part-time, 9-month Dishwasher to support dining services during the academic year. The role involves cleaning, sanitizing, and maintaining dishware, pots, and utensils while coordinating with cooks and staff to ensure a steady supply of clean wares throughout meals.

The position requires a high school diploma, customer service experience, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.