Food Service Worker Leader

** Food Service Worker Leader**

**Department of Veterans Affairs**

**Location**

1 vacancy in the following location:

** Relocation expenses reimbursed**

No

** Telework eligible**

No

** Clarification from the agency**

This is an INTERNAL announcement only open to current employees in the Nutrition and Food Service department at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

**Duties**

** Summary**

The Food Service Worker Leader position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

**Responsibilities**

Major duties include:

+ Responsible for training Food Service employees in the Food Service and Production Section.

+ Trains lower grade employees and provides on-the-job training of new Food Service and Production employees as requested by the immediate supervisor.

+ Trains lower grade employees in safe food handling practices, utilizing programs training programs approved by the FDA Food Code, i.e. ServSafe.

+ Trains in continuing and new education in food safety, service techniques, customer service and Nutrition and Food Service policy.

+ Encourages and coordinates employees to fully utilize their time and to fulfill their assigned tasks in an efficient and satisfactory manner.

+ Works with employees in planning and organizing duties to accomplish work objectives and foster a team effort.

+ Checks work while in progress and when finished to see whether the instructions on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met by lower-grade employees.

+ Maintains a wide knowledge of food service operations, is capable of performing all lower graded tasks.

+ Ensures a safe clean area to work and working climate where employees function

efficiently and effectively.

+ Performs duties of lower grade food service workers if staffing requires

+ Communicates significant day-to-day events to the immediate supervisor and receives

instructions should changes in established procedures and policies change.

+ Performs other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

**Work Schedule:** Full Time. Monday-Friday rotating shifts- 5:45 am-2:15 pm, 6:00 am-2:30 pm, 9:00 am-5:30 pm, 11:00 am-7:30 pm. Weekends possible per operational needs.

**Position Description Title/PD#:** Food Service Worker Leader/PD#99918-A

**Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:** Not authorized **Travel Required**

Not required

** Supervisory status**

No

** Promotion Potential**

4

**Requirements**

** Conditions of Employment**

+ You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job

+ Designated and/or random drug testing may be required

+ Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

+ You may be required to serve a probationary period

+ Subject to a background/security investigation

+ Pre-employment physical required

+ Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process ** Qualifications**

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/03/2021.

**EXPERIENCE:** A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the .

**SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT:** Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:

+ Dexterity and Safety

+ Food Service

+ Lead or Supervise

+ Technical Competence

+ Without more than normal supervision

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

**Note**: *A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.*

**Physical Requirements:** Required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. Subject to continuous standing and walking and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling and bending. May be required to work on ladders and news powered cleaning equipment. Frequently lift or move objects waiting weighing 18 kilograms (40 pounds) and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 60 pounds.

**Working Conditions:** Work is performed in the kitchen areas. Steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often causes uncomfortably high temperatures and high humidity. Work area is well lighted and noise levels exist from food service activities. Danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces and extreme temperature changes when entering into walking refrigeration or freezing units. Will be working under stress and pressure in order to meet established schedules with unforeseen circumstances and/or frequent interruptions in the normal production and

services of food to patients. Must be able to adjust work pace to meet fluctuating workload while demonstrating the ability to perform all required duties under pressure. **Education**

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

**Additional information**

**Placement Policy:** The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

**Veterans and Transitioning Service Members**: Please visit the site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

Financial disclosure not required.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the document.

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** How You Will Be Evaluated**

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

**IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.**

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work