Lead Food Service Worker

Progress West Hospital; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Progress West Hospital is seeking a Lead Food Service Worker to help oversee daily kitchen operations, support teammates, and ensure patients receive high-quality meals and service. You will coordinate staff across shifts, train team members, and enforce safety, sanitation, and HACCP standards in a fast-paced hospital cafeteria and patient-area dining environment.

This full-time role requires 8.5-hour shifts between 6am and 8:30pm, including weekends and holidays, with benefits eligible under

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 2-5 years of related experience preferred.
• Knowledge of HACCP and FSMA guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and achieve department goals.
• Monitor employee performance and schedules; train staff.
• Ensure safety, sanitation, and proper job duties.
• Work across positions to ensure quality and timely service.
• Collaborate with QA to complete food safety measures and sanitation.

Skills

Leadership

Scheduling

Training

Quality control

Safety standards

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Additional Information About The Role

Looking for the next step in your culinary career? Progress West is seeking a Lead Food Service Worker to join our team! In this role, you'll help lead daily kitchen operations, support fellow team members, and ensure our patients receive high-quality meals and excellent service.

• Full-time
• 8.5 hour shifts any where from 6am to 8:30pm
• Weekend and holidays
• Benefits eligible

Overview

Opened in 2007, Progress West Hospital is BJC HealthCare’s newest hospital in St. Charles County, featuring modern private rooms. It offers 24-hour emergency services and has partnered with St. Louis Children’s Hospital to provide world-class pediatric emergency care. Progress West Hospital also provides surgical services, endoscopy services, a cardiac catheterization lab, medical/surgical inpatient services, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and the Advanced Wound Center, a specialty wound treatment facility with state-of-the-art equipment. Progress West Hospital recently completed an expansion of its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at-risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU that provides care for babies born as early as 32 weeks. Progress West Hospital is a Certified Level II Stroke Center. The hospital’s medical office building houses offices for specialists in primary care, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Responsible for coordinating all activities within assigned area including scheduling, training and direction of staff, conducting inspections to evaluate adherence to quality control standards, HACCP procedures, food code regulations and FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) guidelines as determined by the Manager. Manages cash control/ Security procedures. Assumes responsibilities and ownership of the Department as a whole, inclusive of Patient and Cafeteria service; commissary and/or Hot/Cold Food Production; storeroom/inventory/drivers or Sanitation. This position may require various types of automated equipment which would require training/certification.

Responsibilities

• Assists department management in coordinating and achieving department goals.
• Assists with monitoring employee performance and schedules, training employees and building an effective work unit.
• Provides education and ensures work unit follows proper job duty protocol, safety and sanitation guidelines.
• Works various positions where needed to ensure quality and timely delivery of service.
• Works with the Quality Assurance Manager to ensure completion of food safety measures and sanitation assignments.

Education

• High School Diploma or GED

Experience

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Preferred Requirements

• 5-10 years

Benefits and Legal Statement

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At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer