Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Type:
Hourly
Rate:
Range $42.80 - $49.92
Work Schedule
Standard Hours
Day Shifts
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Life insurance
flexible spending accounts
Employee assistance program
Job Description
The San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System (SFVAHCS) is a federal healthcare institution dedicated to providing comprehensive medical services to veterans in the San Francisco area. As part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the SFVAHCS operates with a commitment to the highest standards of care, focusing on the health and well-being of those who have served the nation. The organization encompasses various specialized departments, including the Nutrition & Food Service division, which plays a crucial role in ensuring veterans receive nutritious, safe, and timely meals tailored to their specific dietary needs and health conditions. The VA Medical... Show More
Job Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- Suitable for federal employment as determined by background investigation
- Successful completion of urinalysis drug screening prior to appointment
- Selective Services Registration required for males born after 12/31/1959
- Completion of online onboarding and acceptable forms of identification
- Commitment to serve a 1-year probationary period
- Ability to perform physical duties including lifting up to 40 pounds unassisted
- Ability to work in temperature extremes and physically demanding kitchen environment
- Willingness to wear proper hair covering, clean uniform, disposable gloves, and protective equipment
- Participation in annual influenza vaccination program or exemption
- Compliance with federal employment policies and conditions
Job Qualifications
- A specific length of training and experience is not required but must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to perform duties
- Experience in dexterity and safety
- Experience interpreting instructions and specifications other than blueprint reading
- Experience leading or supervising others
- Experience managing materials
- Experience with technical practices
- Experience using and maintaining tools and equipment
- Experience with work practices
- Must demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities through detailed descriptions on resume
Job Duties
- Plan, produce, direct, coordinate and monitor all phases of food production
- Adjust work schedules to meet training needs
- React to variations in the workplace and maintain a balanced workload between subordinate work groups, adjusting workload as necessary
- Ensure compliance with food safety and sanitation based on hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) and organizational guidelines, regulations, and policies
- Plan cooking processes to produce complete meals on time and at the proper temperature, which may require coordination of cooking several items with different cooking times
- Provide technical direction and training when scheduling work operations with complex work steps and processes
- Investigate work related issues such as excessive costs or low productivity, and determine causes
- Implement corrective actions within authority to resolve identified work issues
- Coordinate/direct the operation of the food service/production areas using standards, procedures, diet manual, modified menus and production sheets to guide the work
- Pan foods for bulk re-thermalization according to recipe guidelines and production guidelines
- Ensure compliance with food safety and sanitation based on guidelines, procedures, and policies to ensure food safety in food preparation and storage in the facility food service establishment(s)
- Monitor work to assure that subordinates use all sanitation and safety precautions
- Enforce safe work practices and compliance with food safety and sanitation guidelines
- Enters work orders for all maintenance issues and/or reports to Supervisor
- Receives and stores all products delivered to the Service
- Ensures that subsistence is received in a safe and sanitary manner and that accurate quantities are received and added to running inventories
- Makes corrections on invoice for errors in quantity, omissions and rejected items
- Stores all food and expendable supplies according to food safety standards and specifications (quality, delivery temperature, cleanliness, in-tact packaging, weight)
- Inventories subsistence and maintains running inventories of all subsistence and supplies
- Takes physical inventory of all food and supply on at least a weekly basis for the purpose of generating food and supply orders
- Ensures that all subsistence is rotated and used according to food safety standards
- Determines subsistence needs based on vendor and menu, documenting appropriately on an ongoing basis
- Requisitions items in accordance with menu requirements, diet census, oral/written instructions, and computer reports
- Operates the computer to record and retrieve recipe, menu, order, and inventory data and to produce reports of such information for various NFS areas
- Plans foods for bulk production according to forecast reports and production worksheets
- Performs other related duties
Job Qualifications
Experience
No experience required
Job Location
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