Foodservice Worker Lead

Geisinger; Wilkes-Barre (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to $2,500

Rotating weekends

Shift differential

Job summary

Geisinger in Wilkes-Barre, PA is seeking a Food Service Lead to serve as designated PIC, prioritizing operations and supervising staff to ensure efficient daily tasks in a clinical setting.

This role emphasizes leadership, adherence to food codes, recipe compliance, temperature checks, and coordination with the CDO and tray line. It also includes opportunities for growth, teamwork, and compliance with enterprise policies.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED (preferred).
• Minimum 3 years related food service experience (required).
• ServSafe certification within 6 months (National Restaurant Association).

Responsibilities

• Acts as the designated PIC during assigned shifts.
• Opens or closes department and handles cash in accordance with policy.
• Adjusts schedules to cover open shifts when needed.
• Encourages staff suggestions for process improvements.
• Monitors food temperatures and enforces safety and tray standards.
• Leads, mentors and may train staff; ensures sanitation and cleaning tasks.
• Reads patient meal tickets and verifies identifiers, recipes, and dating.
• Coordinates with Facilities for equipment maintenance.
• Maintains daily communication boards with counts and outages.

Skills

Leadership

Staff coordination

Food safety

Customer service

Regulatory compliance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary Can perform assigned duties as a designated PIC (Person In Charge). Works in a self-directed manner to prioritize the established functions of foodservice operations. Assists with coordinating staff activities to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of foodservice daily tasks. Performs routine assignments related to foodservice operations. Ensures a professional and appropriate service standard and monitors other staff for compliance with regulations related to food code and food service. Provides leadership and support to other team members. Follows established system wide enterprise and department policies and procedures.

Job Summary Can perform assigned duties as a designated PIC (Person In Charge). Works in a self-directed manner to prioritize the established functions of foodservice operations. Assists with coordinating staff activities to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of foodservice daily tasks. Performs routine assignments related to foodservice operations. Ensures a professional and appropriate service standard and monitors other staff for compliance with regulations related to food code and food service. Provides leadership and support to other team members. Follows established system wide enterprise and department policies and procedures.

Job Duties

• Acts as the Designated PIC (See “Authority & Chain of Command, Foodservice” Policy) at assigned times or shifts.
• Opens or Closes department: Lock / unlock doors, equipment, safe for cash handling
• Covers Call Off’s: Manipulates schedule to cover open shifts by calling in other employees or asking staff to stay.
• Solicits and encourages staff suggestions for process improvements
• Works to promote a team environment and open communication within the work area.
• Monitors, clears alerts/alarms, and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary
• Takes and records food temperatures of food being held for service. Takes corrective action when necessary.
• Ensures recipe compliance, performs, or inputs test trays, patient rounding, communication with CDO, timely execution of tray line, enforces tray standards.
• Cash handling as instructed, temperature monitoring, staff monitoring. sanitation monitoring, portion control, customer service
• Updates daily communication boards with information including counts, product outages, PIC name, etc.
• Monitors cleaning assignments or cleaning assignments lists, monitors staff to ensure they are cleaning and sanitizing correctly.
• Monitor staff tasks to completion and acts a mentor to staff. May train staff
• Places maintenance requests for broken equipment to Facilities
• Additionally, Leads perform daily tasks in their area of focus as part of a workflow that is separate from Lead Duties.
• Read and interpret patient meal tickets, read and confirm patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

• New Hires are eligible for a bonus up to $2,500!
• Must be available to work rotating weekends/holidays
• Eligible for shift differential.
• To learn about our Foodservice team, click here: https://jobs.geisinger.org/food

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Preferred)

Experience

Minimum Of 3 Years-Related Work Experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

ServSafe Certified within 6 months - National Restaurant Association

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES:

Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.