Cleveland Clinic: Food Service Utility

Job Title:          Food Service Utility
Job ID(s):          343       
Job Code(s):      80000026
Job Family:       Operations 
FLSA Status:     Hourly
Updated:           02/2014
 
Summary:  Maintains kitchen work areas and equipment and utensils in clean and orderly condition.
 
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sweeps and mops floors at appropriate intervals to ensure compliance with safety and sanitation standards. 

• Washes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and meat blocks and all other food prep surfaces as assigned.  

• Segregates and removes trash and garbage and places it in designated containers. Steam cleans or hoses out garbage cans in appropriate and assigned areas.

• Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas observing all safe lifting standards.  

• Assists with banquet table and front of the house set up as requested.  

• Assist with loading or unloading and delivering supplies and product. 

• Distributes supplies, utensils and portable equipment as needed.  

• Complies with all outlined sanitation and safety requirements 

• Perform other functions and duties as assigned. 

Education and Experience:  Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
Language Skills:  Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
 
Mathematical Skills:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
 
Reasoning Ability:  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
   
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.  The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.  
 
 
Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and  wet and/or humid conditions The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, extreme cold, and risk of electrical shock.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.