Foodservice Lead

Geisinger • Scranton, PA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a designated Person In Charge (PIC) within the foodservice operations, working in a self-directed manner to prioritize daily tasks and coordinate staff activities for smooth and efficient operations. The position involves performing routine foodservice duties, ensuring professional service standards, and monitoring staff compliance with food safety regulations. The Foodservice Lead provides leadership and support to team members, adhering to established system-wide policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of related work experience (Required)
• ServSafe Certified within 6 months - National Restaurant Association
• Communication
• Computer Literacy
• Confidentiality
• Leads Others
• Organizing
• Policy Procedures
• Teamwork

Nice To Haves

• High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)

Responsibilities

• Acts as the Designated PIC at assigned times or shifts.
• Opens or Closes department: Lock / unlock doors, equipment, safe for cash handling.
• Covers Call Off’s: Manipulates schedule to cover open shifts by calling in other employees or asking staff to stay.
• Solicits and encourages staff suggestions for process improvements.
• Works to promote a team environment and open communication within the work area.
• Monitors, clears alerts/alarms, and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary.
• Takes and records food temperatures of food being held for service and takes corrective action when necessary.
• Ensures recipe compliance, performs, or inputs test trays, patient rounding, communication with CDO, timely execution of tray line, enforces tray standards.
• Performs cash handling as instructed, temperature monitoring, staff monitoring, sanitation monitoring, portion control, and customer service.
• Updates daily communication boards with information including counts, product outages, PIC name, etc.
• Monitors cleaning assignments or cleaning assignments lists, and monitors staff to ensure they are cleaning and sanitizing correctly.
• Monitors staff tasks to completion and acts as a mentor to staff.
• May train staff.
• Places maintenance requests for broken equipment to Facilities.
• Performs daily tasks in their area of focus as part of a workflow that is separate from Lead Duties.
• Reads and interprets patient meal tickets, reads and confirms patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.
• Atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED