Food Service Worker

Who Can Apply

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Places uniform portions of food into serving bowls.
• Sets up meal carts with hot and cold food items including meats. vegetables, salads. desserts, bread, butter, and beverages. Serves food by order and proper proportion and standard serving sizes.
• Collects meal serving trays, plates. and utensils from rooms when meals are finished and returns it to the Center's kitchen for cleaning. Sets up and operates dishwasher and stores cleaned dishes, glasses. and silverware.
• Performs preventive maintenance and cleaning of equipment and notifies kitchen supervisor or head cook of issues regarding dishwasher equipment.
• Scrapes. soaks, scours and scrubs bowls, pots and pans.
• Performs heavy duty cleaning tasks in areas such as: kitchen ceilings, exhaust hoods, floors, and walls.
• Cleans under and behind kitchen equipment, mops and washes floors. cleans walk-in refrigerators and freezers. and sanitizes garbage cans.
• Helps cook supervisor/head cook with the loading and on loading of food and other kitchen items from delivery trucks and aids with the storage of these items.
• Collects and transfers trash from work area to disposal area and cleans trash cans.
• Sorts, washes, peels, and cuts fresh fruits and vegetables and completes simple food preparation such as salads. sandwiches, and snacks using prepared ingredients; incumbent may serve light food items requiring little or no preparation time to children when necessary.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. This position does not allow for education substitution.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your resume and supporting document will be evaluated against the qualifications of the position.

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination has been made that you have inflated your responses to meet the position's qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.

To better expedite the hiring process, we recommend including full contact information (name, address, phone number, email, etc.,) for professional and personal references on your resume.

Required Documents