Dishwasher (Weekends Only, 1st Shift)

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital•Grand Rapids, MI

13d•$18•Onsite

About The Position

We have the great privilege of helping patients and families re-build their lives. It’s extraordinarily meaningful work and the reason we greet the day with optimism and anticipation. When patients “Ask for Mary,” they experience a culture that has been sculpted for more than a century. Our hallmark is to carefully listen to patients and innovatively serve them. This is true of every employee, from support staff and leadership, to clinicians and care providers. Mary Free Bed is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited rehabilitation hospital serving thousands of children and adults each year through inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute rehabilitation, orthotics and prosthetics and home and community programs. With the most comprehensive rehabilitation services in Michigan and an exclusive focus on rehabilitation, Mary Free Bed physicians, nurses and therapists help our patients achieve outstanding clinical outcomes. The growing Mary Free Bed Network provides patients throughout the system with access to our unique standard of care. The Dishwasher is responsible for the maintenance of dishes, pots, pans, trays, kitchen, work areas, equipment and utensils in a clean, orderly and sanitary condition in accordance with current applicable federal, state and local standards, guidelines and regulations. The focus of the Dishwasher includes general dishwasher and cleaning responsibilities to ensure the complete cleanliness and sanitation of the kitchen and work areas.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED equivalent required
Communication and customer service skills, good hand-eye coordination
Ability to follow written and oral directions
Ability to use standard measures required

Nice To Haves

Up to one-month related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Scrapes/rinses food from dirty dishes and washes them by hand or places them in racks or on conveyor to dishwashing machine depending on assigned equipment. Ensure complete cleanliness and sanitation.
Washes pots, pans, and trays based on assigned procedures. Ensure complete cleanliness and sanitation. Let dry completely before storing or reusing.
Polishes silver using burnishing machine tumbler, chemical dip, buffing wheel, and hand cloth depending on assigned equipment and procedures. Ensure complete cleanliness and sanitation. Ensure compliance with all outlined safety procedures, up to and including use of cut gloves when handling and cleaning knives.
Maintain and track temperatures and chemical levels as outlined by provided standards. Let supervisor know in a timely manner if levels are off.
Clean and maintain dish area in an orderly manner to include mats, clear walkway and in compliance with all other safety standards.
Sweeps and mops kitchen floors at appropriate intervals to ensure compliance with safety and sanitation standards.
Washes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and meat blocks and all other food prep surface as assigned.
Segregates and removes trash and garbage and places it in designated containers.
Steam cleans or hoses out garbage cans in appropriate and assigned areas.
Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas observing all safe lifting standards. May assist with loading or unloading supplies and product.
Perform other functions and duties as assigned.
Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members. This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.
Contribute by identifying problems and seeking solutions. Promote patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.