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Food Service Specialist

$14.18 per hour

Kelly Services

Job Description

Job Description

Feeling stuck? Put your career in motion with a great, new opportunity. Join the Kelly® team as a Food Service Specialist to work at a leading organization in Columbia, SC. We’re here every step of the way to help you and your career be the best it can be. Bring your energy and expertise. We’ll help you get where you want to be.

Pay Rate: $14.18 per hour - Paid Weekly!Shift: 6am-2pm, Monday-Friday (CONTRACT till January 2027)What’s a typical day as Food Service Specialist? You’ll be:
  • Performing a variety of food service tasks including cashiering, prep cooking, food serving, dishwashing, catering delivery, and restocking as needed
  • Preparing food and using approved procedures and equipment for food production and service
  • Minimizing waste and production errors while assisting with training as assigned
  • Restocking, rotating, and labeling food items and containers
  • Performing cleaning and sanitation tasks to ensure a safe work environment and reporting equipment malfunctions to management
This job might be an outstanding fit if you:
  • Are able to work in a variety of food service roles as needed
  • Have good organizational and judgment skills
  • Possess strong customer service abilities
  • Are proficient with basic business math
  • Communicate well both orally and in writing
What happens next

Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry—even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means all of our recruiters will have access to your profile, expanding your opportunities even more.

Helping you discover what’s next in your career is what we’re all about, so let’s get to work. Apply to be Food Service Specialist today!

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life-just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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