Foodservice Worker Lead

Geisinger•Wilkes-Barre, PA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves performing assigned duties as a designated Person In Charge (PIC) in a self-directed manner to prioritize foodservice operations. The Lead assists with coordinating staff activities to ensure smooth and efficient daily operations, performs routine foodservice tasks, and ensures professional service standards. They monitor other staff for compliance with food code and food service regulations, provide leadership and support to team members, and adhere to established system-wide policies and procedures. The position typically works in a clinical environment and requires accountability for job-specific obligations and compliance with organizational policies.

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 (Person In Charge) 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.
Handles 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.
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 separate from Lead Duties.
Reads and interprets patient meal tickets, reads and confirms patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.