Description
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Job: Lead Production Food Services
Hours: Variable hours between 4am-8:30pm with 10 hour shifts, every other weekend required
Location: 555 N Duke Street, Lancaster, PA
Department: Food Service- Cafeteria
Summary:
- Position Summary:
- Responsible for setting up and maintaining food production and quality control of food items prepared in the kitchen.
- Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:
- Prepares food items necessary for assigned area.
- Assigns specific duties to associates under supervision for efficient operation of the kitchen.
- Ensures proper storage and handling of products
- Uses portion, presentation and recipe controls.
- Maintains cleanliness of all kitchen areas, including food and non-food working areas.
- Reports equipment repair maintenance to appropriate supervisor or facility department.
- Oversees and guides team members in absence of Sous Chef or Manager.
- Trains and schedules associates. Assists with performance management.
- Completes inventory and orders under the direction of Manager
- The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
- Serves customers quickly and efficiently, and prevents delays in serving lines.
- Greets customers courteously and interacts in a manner to ensure customer satisfaction
- Other duties as assigned.
- Include if applicable:
- Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position as required.
Responsibilities:
- Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Two 2 years of culinary experience
- Experience in restaurants, hotels, corporate dining, education, military, health care, and or related food service operations
- Knowledge of food and industry trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, safety, food cost controls, and presentation.
- Ability to set up and distribute production sheets.
- ServSafe or Department of Health Certification is preferred.
- Attention Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others.
- The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
- New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material.
- Job demands are only moderately routine and predictable. Minor changes may occur which require the individual to be able to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions.
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought.
- The requirement for autonomous problem solving or creativity of thought in the position is minimal. Problems encountered tend to involve a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Typically involves adhering to a chart or set procedure.
- The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act.
- Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
- Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.
- Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
- Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
Credentials:
- CFP ServSafe Food Protection
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- Other
- Two (2) years of culinary experience
Experience in restaurants, hotels, corporate dining, education, military, health care, and/or related food service operations
Knowledge of food and industry trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, safety, food cost controls, and presentation.
Ability to set up and distribute production sheets.
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
