Dining Senior Food Service Worker

Senior Food Service Worker

Multiple full time partial year career positions available in multiple dining halls across the UC Santa Cruz campus. Benefits to working at UC Santa Cruz include: medical, dental & vision care insurance plans, UC retirement plans, group term life insurance, legal insurance, pet insurance, paid holidays plus accrued vacation and sick leave, and meal allowance.

This is an umbrella title for many food service positions in the kitchens, serveries and dining rooms. Under supervision, the Senior Food Service Worker performs a variety of semi-skilled and skilled food preparation, serving, maintenance, and safety and sanitation functions in the kitchen or dining area. Incumbents may serve in a lead capacity with less experienced staff.

Budgeted salary: $26.59/hourly. Benefits level eligibility: full benefits. Schedule information: full-time, fixed. Percentage of time: 100%, 40 hours per week. Days of the week: to be determined and details to be discussed at the interview. Shift includes: day, evenings night, weekends, to be determined and discussed at the interview. Employee classification: partial year career, furlough to be determined and details to be discussed at the interview. Job end date: none. Work location: UC Santa Cruz main campus. Union representation: service employees (SX). Job code classification: food svc worker sr (005651). Travel: never or rarely.

Job duties:

• 60% - daily operations
• 20% - safety and sanitation
• 15% - general maintenance
• 5% - other duties

Required qualifications:

• Experience or knowledge in food preparation and in general maintenance in a kitchen or dining area.
• Knowledge of, or ability to learn, food service, food handling, and custodial practices and procedures.
• Communication skills and abilities sufficient to interact with co-workers, to direct staff work and provide training to less experienced staff.
• Communication skills and abilities sufficient to interact with customers.
• Knowledge of appropriate temperature requirements for safe serving, food handling, and food storage.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn how to safely operate a variety of kitchen equipment, dishwashing machines, custodial equipment, serving line equipment as relevant to the particular assignment.
• Knowledge of cleaning and safety techniques and procedures for food preparation, storage and service.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn merchandising and presentation techniques of food service.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team-based environment.
• Ability to work effectively and cooperatively with people from diverse groups.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bilingual in Spanish/English, or willingness to learn.

Special conditions of employment:

• Selected candidate will be required to pass a pre-employment criminal history background check.
• Selected candidate must pass the employment misconduct disclosure process.
• All employees must be able to pass the UCSC dining food handler card test within 90 days of employment, or already in be in possession of a California food handler card or ServSafe certification upon hire.
• Ability to work a variable schedule including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to move materials weighing up to 50 pounds with or without accommodation.
• Selected candidate will be required to complete training within established time frames as directed including UC compliance training.
• The University of California has implemented a vaccination policy covering all employees. Employees, including new hires, are required to comply with any applicable policies relating to the University of California vaccine program.
• Per the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA), this position has been identified as a mandated reporter. The selected candidate will be required to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect as defined by CANRA and will be required to sign a statement acknowledging requirement to report child abuse prior to commencing employment.

Misconduct disclosure requirement: as a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

Safety statement: all UCSC employees must understand and follow job safety procedures, attend required health and safety training, proactively promote safety at work, and promptly report actual and potential accidents and injuries.

EEO/AA: the University of California is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status or other protected categories covered by the UC anti-discrimination policy. It is the policy of the University of California to undertake affirmative action and anti-discrimination efforts, consistent with its obligations as a federal and state contractor.