Foodservice Lead

Geisinger•Scranton, PA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a designated Person In Charge (PIC) for foodservice operations, working in a self-directed manner to prioritize daily tasks. The Foodservice Lead assists in coordinating staff activities to ensure smooth and efficient operations, performs routine assignments, and upholds professional service standards. They monitor staff compliance with food code and food service regulations, providing leadership and support to the team. The position requires adherence to established system-wide enterprise and department policies and procedures.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of related work experience.
ServSafe Certified within 6 months.
High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED).

Nice To Haves

ServSafe Certified

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. 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.
Cash handling as instructed, temperature monitoring, staff monitoring, sanitation monitoring, portion control, customer service.
Updates daily communication boards with information including counts, product outages, PIC name, etc.
Monitors cleaning assignments or cleaning assignments lists, monitors staff to ensure they are cleaning and sanitizing correctly.
Monitor 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.
Read and interpret patient meal tickets, read and confirm patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.