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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 17 days ago
On-site Durham, NC $18.3 – $21.4/hr Apply by Sep 25, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ Hospitality
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This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but not limited too: Set up cafeteria lines, steam tables, dining room tables, and side service stands with hot and cold food items.
- →Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients' plates.
- →Break down and clean assigned area when the meal is finished and return food to the kitchen.
- →Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary.
- →Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room after meals.
- →Performs work requiring light to moderate physical.
- →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.
- →Subject to continuous standing and 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 the assistance of others.
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 All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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: 1da63459-b101-4067-849c-575387a1e62c
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