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Food Service Worker Leader
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 75 days ago
On-site Martinsburg, WV $24.5 – $28.5/hr Apply by Jul 13, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ OperationsHospitality
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This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Services within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Administration in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The primary purpose of this position is to perform and lead employees in food service operations including food handling, preparation, storage and delivery. in the f duties lead and perform duties associated with the food service industry.
What You'll Do
- →In the absence of a Supervisor, follows up on patient feedback as needed, to assure high quality patient/customer service is maintained. - Provides on the job training to lower graded food service workers and documents training provided. - Works food service positions as needed.
- →Incumbent may receive food and supply deliveries when necessary. - Observes the daily activities and work performance of employees and provides information to supervisors for performance appraisals and other evaluations.
- →Recommends training needs of employees and reports disciplinary problems. - Utilizes computer printouts to communicate food preparation requirements. - Assumes responsibility for the security and safety of the kitchen and work areas when a supervisor is not available or on duty. - Serves as relief for first line supervisors during employee shortages and emergency situations.
- →Work Schedule: 5am-1:30pm Tues-Sat.
- →Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker Leader/PD99919S Physical Requirements: The work performed requires some light to 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 sitting, standing, walking and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling and bending.
- →Frequently lifts or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with assistance of others.
- →Working Conditions: The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often causes uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity.
- →The work area is well-lighted but usually noisy from food service activities, and there is danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped.
- →Food service workers are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.
- →May be unknowingly exposed to patients who have contagious disease.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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