Food Service Worker - Kitchen

Akron Children's; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Akron Children’s is seeking a Food Service Worker to assemble patient meal trays, prepare and portion food, and ensure sanitation and safety standards are met. You will support multiple kitchen functions, handle customer requests, and assist with inventory and production sheets to maintain efficient service across cafeteria, catering, and patient meals.

The role emphasizes adherence to HACCP procedures, safety, and cleanliness, with experience in food service and MS Office skills considered

Qualifications

• Experience in Food Service is preferred.
• HACCP knowledge or training is preferred.
• Short order cooking and room service prep experience is preferred.
• Customer service experience is preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word) is required.

Responsibilities

• Assembles patient meal trays and serves food according to recipes.
• Cleans and sanitizes equipment, dishes, trays, and maintains a neat work area.
• Delivers and assembles stock items and patient trays.
• Maintains logs, temperatures and records for HACCP compliance.
• Uses kitchen equipment for cafeteria, catering and patient prep.
• Handles customer requests and concerns as able.
• Collects dirty trays and adheres to schedule for pickup.
• Maintains inventory and stocks floors per par levels and census.
• Notifies supervisor of equipment repairs or issues and communicates concerns.
• Prepares food for all areas including meat, seafood, produce; cleans produce and poultry.
• Prepares sandwiches and fillings; assembles carts per production sheets or labels.
• Fills in to support other areas to ensure operations run smoothly.

Skills

Food service

HACCP

Customer service

MS Office

Tools

MS Office (Outlook Excel Word)

Job description

Summary

The Food Service Worker assembles ingredients for production of kitchen carts and patient meal trays and serves food according to portions on recipes, as well as inventory, stock, label, tray, and safety and sanitation duties.

Responsibilities

1. Assembles patient meal trays and serves food in retail according to portions on recipes.

2. Cleans and sanitizes all equipment, dishes, trays, and utensils and keeps work area neat.

3. Delivers/assembles stock items and patient trays.

4. Keeps logs, temperatures and records for HACCP.

5. Utilizes equipment and kitchen skills for preparation of items for cafeteria, catering, and patients.

6. Handles customer requests and concerns as able.

7. Picks up dirty trays according to schedule.

8. Inventories and stocks floors/requests based on par levels, census, and inventory forms.

9. Notifies supervisor of any needed repairs or issues with equipment and communicates customer

10. issues/concerns to supervisor.

11. Prepares food for all areas of Department including meat, seafood, produce.

12. Cleans produce and poultry; prepares sandwiches and fillings daily; assembles carts for production according to production sheets or labels.

13. Fill in to support other Support Services areas as needed to ensure operational efficiency.

Other information

Technical Expertise

1. Experience in Food Service is preferred.

2. Experience in hazard analysis critical control point is preferred.

3. Experience in short order cooking, preparation for room service such as restaurants, other hospital room service experience is preferred.

4. Customer Service Experience in preferred.

5. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.

Education and Experience

1. Education: None

2. Licensure: None

3. Certification: ServSafe is preferred.

4. Years of relevant experience: 2 years is preferred.

5. Years of supervisory experience: None

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Onsite