Food Service Worker

VA Detroit; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Food Service Worker to join their team. The role involves preparing and serving food, maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen, and ensuring a pleasant dining experience for patients. Candidates should be ready for physical tasks and work in a busy environment. Full-time schedules are available with rotating shifts.

Qualifications

• Participate in a pre-employment examination.
• Perform light to moderate physical effort.

Responsibilities

• Set up cafeteria lines and serve food cafeteria style.
• Deliver meal trays to patients' bedsides.
• Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service areas.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Food Preparation

Heavy Duty Cleaning

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Summary
Wage Grade 2 Food Service Workers at the Central Iowa VA perform tasks with several steps or a sequence of tasks that requires attention to work operations. They follow set procedures in accomplishing repetitive assignments and follow an established sequence of work such as working in the dish room, passing trays, portioning cold foods and dipping hot foods.

Major duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Set up cafeteria lines, steam tables, dining room tables, and side service stands with hot and cold food items
• Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients' plates
• Break down and clean assigned area when the meal is finished and return food to the kitchen
• Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary
• Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room after meals
• Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides
• Brew coffee according to the number of servings required
• Assemble and toss fresh fruit or green salads in quantity using prepared dressings and portions into standard serving sizes
• Make cold sandwiches using prepared ingredients and pack box lunches
• Work in one or more functional areas of the kitchen such as food preparation, dish and pot washing, dry and refrigerated storage and receiving, and the serving line
• Sort, wash, peel and cut fresh fruits and vegetables
• Operate and break down equipment
• Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas.

Work Schedule: 6:00 am - 2:30 pm or 10:30 am - 7:00 pm, 5 days per week, rotating (Full-Time)

Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD99921S

Physical Requirements: You will be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination or evaluation as part of the pre-employment process for this position. Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of evaluation or examination.

Physical Effort: Food Service Workers perform work requiring light to moderate physical effort. They may be required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. They are subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. They frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.

Working Conditions: The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. The work area is well-lighted but usually noisy from food service activities, and there is danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Food service workers are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.