Cafe Grill Cook and Cashier

San Juan Regional Medical Center•Farmington, NM

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community. Provide safe and sanitary food of high nutritional quality coupled with outstanding customer service to promote physical and emotional vitality for all our customers: patients, visitors, and staff. Through teamwork provide a positive experience for patients, families, visitors and staff with outstanding service and compassion to meet customer expectations. Foster an environment of relaxation and rejuvenation in the healthcare setting.

Requirements

Must have a Food Handler card issued by an accredited provider (by the first day of employment)
Minimum of eighteen (18) years of age
Ability to work effectively within a team environment
Proven ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
Excellent customer service skills, including communication and problem-solving
At least one (1) year of experience in large-scale cooking or institutional food preparation
Knowledge of food safety regulations, preparation, and various cooking methods
Familiarity with standard cooking schedules and food service protocols
Experience with cash handling and point-of-sale (POS) systems

Nice To Haves

Culinary certifications or coursework, such as ServSafe, culinary arts, or nutrition basics

Responsibilities

Demonstrates proper hand hygiene, changes gloves as appropriate and between tasks as appropriate, hairnet or cap always worn.
Maintains a clean and sanitary work environment throughout shift, sets up and maintains green (soap) and red (sanitizer) buckets throughout shift, spills wiped up immediately, food and objects on floor picked up immediately, cleans and sanitizes salad bar at scheduled times, cleans and sanitizes all counter tops in the serving area, cleans and sanitizes all machines and coolers, cleans and sanitizes all tables and seats in Café during and after each main meal service time, empties trash cans as needed.
Follows safe food handling guidelines, applies ServSafe training to task completion throughout shift, thaws food per safe food handling guidelines, cools food to standard temperature in correct timeframe, discards outdated food, records on Non-Conforming Product Log, and informs supervisor, temps food at least every four (4) hours and maintains temperature logs throughout shift.
Uses equipment properly and safely, reports any equipment issues to supervisor, cleans and sanitizes equipment each shift as indicated by cleaning logs, log documentation reflects equipment condition.
Maintains stock of food and supplies in Café, rotating stock first in first out (FIFO), all items set up (fruit, bread, pastries, salad and sandwich bar, beverages) according to standards of food safety and in time for Café opening, discards outdated items, replenishes food items as necessary to maintain a continuous supply for customers, changes fountain soda and CO2 containers as needed.
Prep work is complete and timely, prepares food to meet existing standards for quality, freshness, taste and appearance, reports any food concerns to supervisor, wraps, dates and rotates items daily; alerts supervisor if problem noted.
Counts drawer before start of shift and informs supervisor if a discrepancy is noted, runs register with accuracy (cash drawer balance reconciles with sales), prints End of Shift report each shift.
Demonstrates willingness and follows through with other assigned duties.
Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship.
Other duties as assigned.