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Food Service Worker
| Hours | Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Lynnwood, WA Lynnwood, Washington |
About this job
Edmonds Community College is committed to diversity, equity and social justice. The college values its talented, diverse workforce and seeks to attract, hire, and support employees who consistently and actively embrace diversity and equity. We are intentional about social justice – the active engagement toward equity and inclusion that addresses issues of institutional, structural, and environmental inequity, power and privilege.
Edmonds Community College - Snohomish County Head Start & Early Head Start Food Service Program provides meal and/or snack services to all children enrolled in our Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. Head Start has classroom sites throughout Snohomish County. The Early Head Start Program has classroom locations in the City of Everett. Food is prepared at our Central Kitchen (commercial kitchen) and transported to our Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms. The Food Service Worker performs routine tasks in preparing, transporting and setting up meal service, dishwashing, cleaning and sanitizing kitchen and food prep areas, and maintaining inventory within our food service operation both in the Central Kitchen and at our food service locations (classrooms). For our Central Kitchen to be able to function at all times it requires Food Service employees be cross trained in the essential tasks that ensure snacks/meals are produced, delivered, retrieved and the sites, kitchen, and cook, silver and service ware are cleaned.
Under the direction of the Cook 2, the Food Service Worker position has three primary work functions
- Dishwashing, cleaning and sanitizing: the kitchen, pantry, food storage, and food serving areas doing the required periodic and routine heavy cleaning and sanitation tasks needed to operate a commercial kitchen and feeding program serving over 600 meals a day at nine different locations.
- Food preparation, meal set-up, and inventory: In the classroom, completing food service tasks necessary in providing children with meals and snacks in setting up food for children's meal service, ordering/maintaining food site inventory, and prepping for snack and breakfast. There is limited involvement with children and classroom staff.
- Loading van, transporting food to sites, delivering food cambros to classroom, returning cambros with dirty dishes back to the Central Kitchen, unloading and cleaning/sanitizing cambros.
Food Service Workers will be
- assigned to a primary work function area,
- crossed trained in all the duties in all the work function areas and
- required to work in any or all the functional areas when staff absence or unusually high kitchen production demands it
The Cook 2 supervises the day-to-day work of the Food Service Worker in
- performing heavy cleaning and sanitizing of all food service equipment and materials used in preparing, cooking, transporting, serving, and storing of food and non-food items;
- performing heavy cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen and storeroom environment, i.e., sink, walls, shelves, floors and floor mats, cabinets, counters;
- removing the trash and garbage, cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen receptacles;
- maintaining the storeroom, inventory and the food and non-food supplies;
- transporting meals to multiple Head Start and Early Head Start sites;
- maintaining refrigerator, microwave and food prep areas in the classrooms;
- sets up food for family-style meal service, preps food for breakfast and snacks;
- cleaning and sanitizing classroom food service equipment and containers;
- checking and restocking classrooms' food and non-food supplies;
- maintaining classroom sanitary conditions for food service delivery;
- returning used food service containers from the centers to the kitchen; and
- on an as need or emergency basis, assisting kitchen staff in food or meal preparation.
Consistent food service staff attendance is integral to the Central Kitchen's success in producing and delivering the children's snacks and meals. As such, punctuality and consistent attendance are essential functions of this position; consistent attendance as exhibited by no less than 95% attendance and punctuality by arriving at the work site ready to work at the beginning of the assigned shift through to the end of the position's designated work shift.
It is SCHS/EHS's expectation that the Food Service Worker
- implements their positional responsibilities in a professional manner that includes working in a respectful manner with all children, parents and employees;
- maintain child and family confidentiality,
- complete required forms and paperwork in a timely, neat, readable and appropriate manner;
- exhibit the attributes identified in SCHS & EHS Professional Expectations/Standards, and
- comply with all SCHS/EHS policies, protocols and procedures.
Knowledge and skills
The Food Service Worker must have working knowledge of Head Start family?style meal service, USDA meal requirements, state sanitation and safety procedures as well as maintaining a food service inventory tracking system and either have or the ability to secure a Washington State driver's license. The position requires the individual have skills to work independently as well as within a team. The Food Service Worker must maintain confidentiality of all information s/he receives pertaining to children, families, and staff.
Authority
The Food Services Manager is the second level supervisor of the Food Service Worker, establishes suitable job description guidelines, oversees Cook 2 in conducting hourly employees' work task reviews, and provides a system of work task accountability. The Food Services Manager signs the position's leave slip and timesheets, oversees work assignments and monitors outcomes.
The Cook 2 is the first level supervisor who assigns and supervises the day-to-day work of the Food Service Workers ensuring the Central Kitchen meets its daily obligation in producing and serving the planned menu, compliance with public health laws and SCHS/EHS food service standards, policies, protocols and procedures. In the absence of the Cook 2, the Food Service Worker Lead provides direction to the Food Service Workers.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Possession of, or eligible for, a Snohomish Health District food worker card.
- Possess or ability to get a Washington State driver's license
- Driving record free of significant or multiple violations within the last 3 years.
Physical Requirements/Essential Functions:
The Food Service Worker position has the following physical work requirements:
- Ability to do tasks involving a variety of repetitive arm & hand movements, such as extensive scrubbing, scrapping, wiping, and polishing.
- Batches, sorts and counts food service utensils, dishes, equipment, food and non-food consumables supplies.
- Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing with staff or public in a face-to-face, one-on-one setting and using the telephone.
- Observe, compare, produce, and/or monitor orders, invoices and/or inventory reports to determine compliance with prescribed standards.
- Comprehends and make inferences from English written material.
- May be required to drive private or Head Start vehicle to carry out assigned tasks.
- Able to perform tasks effectively in an environment that is fast paced, has required deadlines and may be subject to frequent interruptions.
- Performs work requiring the ability to stand for long periods, lift approximately 50 pounds, and moving food and non-food supplies including food service equipment.
- Uses cleaning agents on materials, equipment and/or furniture.
- Ability to operate kitchen/food service equipment and machines, such as, dish machine sanitizer, and, possibly, copier, adding machine, and multi-line phone.
- Employee must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand, walk; push, pull, carry and lift up to 50 pounds; full range of use of fingers, grasp; execute repetitive motions that are substantial movements of the wrists, hands and/or fingers – complete all fulfilling the essential elements of the position.
- Punctuality and consistent attendance are essential functions of this position; consistent attendance as exhibited by no less than 95% attendance, be present from beginning through to the end of the position's designated work shift.
- To assure children's safety, when in the presence of children, it is the expectation that the employee remain alert and focused at all times and able to make quick and spontaneous decisions using problem-solving skills and good judgment based on organizational policies and procedures.
- When working in a classroom when children are present, an employee in this position must be able to supervise individual and groups of children by positioning themselves so as to keep them within visual and auditory range, accounting for the whereabouts of each child at all times, and ensuring that no child is ever left alone or unsupervised.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Hiring for this position is on the condition that the following requirements will be met:
Before Starting Work:
- Paperwork indicating negative TB Test or clear chest x-ray
- Proof of Tdap (Pertussis) vaccination
- Present or obtain a Food Worker Card from Snohomish County Health District.
- Show proof of a cleared Portable Background Check (PBC) from the Washington State Department of Early Learning (NOTE: if you do not have a current PBC, you must first create an account in the DEL's MERIT system by . The fees for obtaining a PBC are your responsibility. The entire process of obtaining a PBC takes 3-4 weeks. You may not start working until we have a copy of your cleared PBC.)
Within three days of hire:
- Submit proof of US Citizenship or ability to work in US (must show original social security or Alien Registration Card/Work Permit, as well as one piece of picture identification).
- Completion of all pertinent personnel/payroll forms
Within 60 days of hire:
- Signed statement by a health provider that the employee is free from communicable diseases and physically able to perform job responsibilities; updated as required by the employee's health care provider
- Completion of state mandated compliance trainings: State Ethics, Diversity Basics, Sexual Harassment Prevention, and FERPA
Condition of continued employment:
- Successfully complete a six-month probationary period (classified Food Services Workers only)
EEO / AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT
Edmonds Community College-Snohomish County Head Start is an equal opportunity employer and operates under an affirmative action plan. Supplemental certification is utilized for positions that show underutilization of protected groups. Applicants with disabilities who require assistance with the recruitment process may call (425) 712-9000 ext. 4502 and accommodations will be made to the extent reasonably possible. The Snohomish County Head Start office is accessible to persons with disabilities.
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