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Our Utility Prep team members play a key role in ensuring our kitchen and prepared foods departments run efficiently. In this role, you will support many areas by ensuring our kitchen has clean dishes prepped ingredients, and all the supplies needed to make great tasting prepared foods available for customers. If you’re a team player looking for an opportunity to work behind the scenes and contribute to the bigger picture, this could be the position for you!

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Providing Incredible, Knowledge Based Customer Service

  • Provide incredible service to Prepared Foods departments by ensuring dishes, containers, utensils and other supplies are properly cleaned and sanitized, and any prep work is completed on a timely basis
  • Set up and operate dishwasher equipment; manually wash dishes before loading into the dishwasher to ensure the cleanest wash possible
  • Fill and empty dishwasher throughout the day to maintain a constant flow of clean dishware and supplies to departments
  • Ensuring High Quality Products & Ingredients

    • Maintain the overall appearance and cleanliness of the kitchen and dishwashing area to ensure work gets completed in the most efficient and safe way possible
    • Keep floors clear of debris and ensure garbage and recyclables are disposed of throughout the day
    • Assist departments by putting dish loads away and perform other kitchen duties as necessary, including some food prep work
    • Properly handle products, use equipment, keep accurate logs and follow sanitation practices in accordance with food and human safety guidelines and Simplification 5S procedures
    • Living Who We Are

      • Support, encourage, and respect co-workers
      • Work with supervisor to set and achieve goals for professional development
      • Comply with Wegmans Policies and Work Rules, as well as, federal and state laws
      • Maintain open lines of communication with supervisors and coworkers to ensure the most efficient operations in the department
      • Seeking Candidates Who…

        • Live our values: caring, respect, empowerment, making a difference, high standards
        • Possess teamwork & diversity awareness
        • Seek continuous learning opportunities
        • Provide incredible customer service
        • Ensure food & human safety
        • Possess organizational skills
        • Provide knowledge based service
        • Educate self and others about product knowledge
        • Use and explain Wegmans cooking techniques
        • Possess culinary knife skills
        • Preferred Skills and Experience

          • Customer service experience in a food service, grocery, restaurant or retail setting
          • Dish washing experience
          • Work Environment

            • Work involves continuous interaction with customers and co-workers in a fast-paced environment
            • Typical motions include repetitive hand and arm movement, pivoting and truck twisting
            • Responsible for moving and lifting an average of 1-10 pounds with a maximum weight lifted of 25 pounds occasionally
            • Work performed near hot equipment
            • May be exposed to various allergens as well as wet and humid conditions
            • Will spend the majority of time on his or her feet and stand or walk without a break for up to 4 hours
            •  * Employment at Wegmans may be contingent upon your completion and our evaluation of a drug screen physical and/or criminal background check. All Applicants will be screened; only those closely matching the job posting will be interviewed