Food Service Worker

US Military Treatment Facilities under DHA; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort Gordon, GA at Eisenhower Army Medical Center is seeking a Food Service Worker. Shifts 0500-1330 or 1000-1830 rotate across a 7-day week; duties include tray delivery, washing, and food preparation.

Applicants must demonstrate ability to work with minimal supervision, follow safety procedures, and perform sanitation tasks in a hot, noisy kitchen environment.

Qualifications

• There is no specific length of training or experience required; demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the work without excessive supervision.
• Ability to follow instructions to prepare and assemble food items, and to operate basic dishwashing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and pickup trays and wash and sanitize dishware.
• Follow instructions to prepare food items.
• Assemble and deliver food items.
• Clean preparation work area when meals are finished.
• Operate a dishwasher to clean dishes, pots, pans, and soiled trays.

Skills

Food handling

Sanitation

Safety procedures

Teamwork

Job description

About the Position:

This position is located at Fort Gordon, GA in Eisenhower Army Medical Center. Will work on shift 0500-1330 or 1000-1830. Shifts will rotate. Incumbent is subject to shift assignments on one of a 2 shifts per day, 5 out of 7 days a week schedule (operations run 7 days per week).

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.

Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element):

Ability to do the work of a(n) Food Service Worker ~ without more than normal supervision. I have the ability to perform common Food Service Worker duties. I can deliver and pickup trays and wash and sanitize dishware. I can follow instructions to prepare food items. I can assemble and deliver food items. I can clean preparation work area when meals are finished. I can operate a dishwasher to clean dishes, pots, pants, and soiled trays. I work under normal supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who observes tasks in progress and upon completion to make sure they are properly performed. Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

• Physical effort: The work involves prolonged periods of standing and walking and frequent stooping, bending, reaching, pulling and pushing. Regularly lifts and moves objects weighing up to forty pounds with some occasional lifting of heavier items with assistance. Regularly pushes food carts weighing 45 pounds.
• Working Conditions: The area is generally well lighted however is considered hot as is typical of kitchen areas in which ovens and steam constantly produce heat and humidity. The area is frequently noisy with exposure to burns, cuts, bruises, scrapes or broken bones resulting from falls or slips on wet surface, hot liquids, foods or cooking surfaces, equipment or utensils. The employee follows prescribed safety procedures and is required to wear safety shoes. Regularly pushes food carts weighing 45 pounds.