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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 42 days ago
On-site Salisbury, NC $17.9 – $20.9/hr Apply by Aug 12, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ Hospitality
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This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the Salisbury VA Medical Center, in Salisbury, North Carolina. The incumbent will work under the supervision of the Food Service Worker Supervisor.
What You'll Do
- →Work Schedule: 4:30a-1p;5:30a-2p;8a-4:30p;11a-7:30p Rotating Holiday/Week 5:30a-11a; 10:30a-4p; 2p-7:30p; Rotating Holidays/Weekends Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD99921A Physical Effort: Wage Grade 2 Food Service Workers perform work requiring light to moderate physical effort.
- →They may be 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. they are subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending.
- →They frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with that assistance of others.
- →Working Conditions: The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause 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 workdays are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.
- →Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications.
- →For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for.
- →Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success.
- →Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, Reliability and Dependability.
- →Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration.
- →The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements.
- →While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.
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
Job ID: 015d9f39-8f48-4814-842b-581b4303a03f
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