Food Service Worker

Food Service Worker

A food service worker is a fundamental position responsible for culinary tasks. The food service worker is responsible for the proper preparation, set up, and execution of a particular station or dish. The culinary work in this position must follow commitments to sustainability and proper health and safety guidelines.

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers, and suppliers.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.

Duties/Function/Tasks:

• Prepares hot and cold items per recipes and production guidelines for a specific station or area of a food service location.
• Washes, peels, cuts, and seeds vegetables and fruits; weighs and measures designated ingredients.
• Ensures par levels are maintained for your station. Takes temperature of food at designated times throughout the shift and documents the temperatures in log books.
• Carries pans, kettles, and trays of food to and from workstations, stove, and refrigerator.
• Properly stores foods in designated areas following wrapping, dating, and rotation procedures.
• Cleans work areas, equipment, and utensils; distributes supplies, utensils, and portable equipment.
• Utilizes approved food production standards to ensure proper quality, serving temperatures, and standard portion control.
• Follows all recipe, food production and presentation standards.
• Completes end of shift production sheets.
• Set up station or section in time for service.
• Serves customers in an efficient and friendly manner; resolves customer concerns.
• Collects, sorts, and washes dishes.
• Sweeps and mops kitchen floors.
• Washes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and large equipment.
• Distributes supplies, utensils, and portable equipment.
• Segregates and removes trash and garbage and places it in designated containers.
• Transfers supplies, equipment, and food between storage and work areas.
• Loads or unloads trucks picking up or delivering supplies and food.
• Completes all logs with accurate information throughout the shift.
• Keeps areas clean, organized and full.
• Interacts with co-workers to ensure compliance with company service standards, and inventory and cash control procedures.
• Assures compliance with all HACCP, ServSafe, Department of Health and JHU sanitation and safety requirements.

Note: Job duties are subject to change as needed.

Qualifications:

• Strong passion and motivation to create great food.
• General culinary knowledge of basic kitchen practices, protocols, and procedures.
• 2 years of equivalent experience working in a high-volume restaurant kitchen.
• Understanding of typical culinary units of measure.
• Ability to work safely and efficiently with large volume culinary equipment including but not limited to grill, fryers, steamers, tilt skillets, and convection ovens.
• Ability to follow all health and safety standards.
• Possess the ability to meet specific uniform standards for this position.
• Utilize all Personal Protective Equipment's per guidelines.
• Wear a cut resistance glove whenever using a sharp or potentially sharp tool or instrument.
• Ability to use time keeping system to properly record time worked for payroll processing.

Certifications and Licenses:

• ServSafe and Allertrain certified or
• Obtain ServSafe and Allertrain certificates within first 2 months of employment.

Physical Requirements:

• Stand and walk for extended periods of time (2-4 hours).
• Walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms at below and above shoulder level.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Regularly talk and hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Twist and bend while standing.
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and taste or smell.
• Ability to withstand hot temperatures as generated by ovens, grills, and fryers.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, understand and speak basic English to perform essential functions of the job.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Achieving Leadership in the Foodservice Industry:

JHU Dining is a diversity growth-oriented organization. Our goal is to improve the quality of work life by using fair and consistent treatment and providing equal growth opportunities for ALL associates. EOE & AA Employer M/F/D/V.

Authority:

This position does not directly supervise anyone but is responsible for working in a team and completing task in a group setting.

**This is a Bargaining Unit position. All newly hired employees in Bargaining Unit positions shall be considered "probationary" employees until completion of 90 calendar days of employment. The university will notify the employees' union.

Starting Salary Range: $19.88 per hour Employee group: Full-Time Schedule: Varies by location