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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
On-site Part-time Johnson City, TN $18.6 – $21.7/hr Apply by Jun 22, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ OperationsHospitality
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Wage Grade 2 Food Service Workers perform tasks with several steps or a sequence of tasks that requires attention to work operations. They follow set procedures in accomplishing repetitive assignments and follow an established sequence of work such as working in the dish room, passing trays, portioning cold foods and dipping hot foods.
What You'll Do
- →This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center at the James H.
- →Quillen VA Medical Center, Johnson City, TN.
- →Physical Effort and Work Conditions: Work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity.
- →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.
- →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 Work Schedule: Part-time schedule; 15 hours a week; Earliest to clock in 5:00 am; latest to clock out 8:00pm weekends and holidays included-Part-Time.
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.
- ✓There is no education requirement or substitution for this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 81346db8-8c4b-4a13-b064-15946a730fdc
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