Prepared Foods Load Full Time - Full-time

What is my Job:

Our Prepared Foods Load employees 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 properly rotated supplies, a simplified working area, 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 in a culinary environment and contribute to the team's success, this could be the position for you!

How do I make a difference?

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

What skills, learnings, and experiences are required?

• Living Who We Are values by caring about the well-being of every person, having high standards as a way of life, making a difference in the communities we serve, respecting and listening to others and making decisions that benefit our customers and company
• Possess teamwork & diversity awareness by listening to others' points of view and recognizing and appreciating differences
• Recognize and seek opportunities for continuous learning to gain new understandings, skills and knowledge
• Provide incredible customer service, acknowledging customers, listening to their needs, proactively offering assistance and thanking each customer for shopping with us
• Properly handle, prepare, transport and store products; ensuring food & human safety practices are strictly adhered to
• Possess organizational skills, prioritizing requests and department activities while managing interruptions and attending to details to complete tasks within deadlines
• Has knowledge of products used throughout the store and works across departments to provide knowledge based service to assist customers in finding complete meal solutions
• Utilize resources to educate self and others about product uses and characteristics, being sure to share acquired product knowledge
• Learn, use and be able to explain Wegmans sanctioned cooking techniques to assist customers for their success at home
• Possess culinary knife skills which include safely using knives; sharpening and honing the edges of knives; and using them to chop, dice, julienne and mince

What skills, learnings, and experiences are preferred and will set me apart? 

• Customer service experience in a food service, grocery, restaurant or retail setting
• Dish washing experience
• Able to problem solve, anticipating, analyzing, and identifying problems, responding quickly when situations arise and preventing problems when possible

Work environment: 

• Work includes repetitive hand and arm movements, standing and walking for long periods, pivoting and trunk twisting, along with continuous interaction with coworkers in a fast paced environment. Work involves exposure to various work environments including wet, humid and hot. Average weight range of items lifted is 1- 10 pounds with a maximum weight lifted of 25 pounds occasionally. May be exposed to various allergens (things that may cause an allergic reaction)
• Work performed near hot equipment

Other:

• Employment at Wegmans may be contingent upon your completion and our evaluation of a drug screen and/or criminal background check
• All Applicants will be screened; only those closely matching the job posting will be interviewed