Sub Department: Wadsworth Hall Food Service
Michigan Technological University is an R1 technological research university founded in 1885 in Houghton. Our rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's scenic Upper Peninsula and is home to nearly 7,500 students from more than 60 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan's flagship technological university offers more than 185 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Research focus areas include defense, health, energy, automotive, environment, and aerospace.
The area's waters, forests, and snowfall support year-round recreation, including skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, and paddling. The University is an integral part of the region, supported by a friendly and welcoming community that takes pride in being a true college town. We embrace our size, climate, sense of adventure, and originality.
Summary
Michigan Technological University is seeking a Food Service Utility employee. They will perform in areas of food service to include food preparation and production, including customer service, equipment operation, and cashier duties.
Responsibilities and Essential Duties
* Direct the activities of student food service workers in assigned area.
* Assist in the training and instructions of regular student employees in assigned area. Maintain records and prepare required reports in assigned area.
* Order food, schedule students, maintain inventory, operate electronic cash register and card readers. Take money to accounting.
* Responsible for cleaning, sanitation, and safety in assigned area.
* Operate all equipment used in preparation and production of menu items employing safety procedures. Understand and interpret recipes.
* Perform catering duties including set-up, serving, delivering, cleaning, table service, and all aspects of clean-up. Interact with customers in a friendly and courteous manner.
* Maintain knowledge of portion size, food items, and ingredients of foods being served. Adhere to current uniform policy as posted.
* Participate in any training necessary to accommodate changes in operation which directly affect regular assigned duties. Responsible for garbage removal and cardboard recycling in assigned areas.
* Conduct daily, weekly, or monthly physical inventories in designated areas as
* assigned by supervisor.
* Sweep, mop, clean, vacuum, wax and buff various types of floor surfaces.
* Clean and maintain all meeting and conference rooms, hallways, lobbies,
* lounges, rest rooms, offices, labs, stairwells and other public and work areas.
* Clean washroom floors, walls and fixtures sanitize as necessary. Replenish washroom soap, paper, and vending products.
* Maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe work area and ensure a safe environment
* throughout the facility. Remove garbage, paper and recycling.
* Clean all types of wall and ceiling surfaces.
* Use and maintain a variety of cleaning and maintenance machines, ladders, tools and equipment.
* Wash windows, clean furniture, dust windowsills and ledges and clean fixtures,change light bulbs in various fixtures inside and out of building.
* Maintain building entrances according to conditions by removing snow and ice, applying sand and salt, and removing debris.
* Adhere to current uniform policy.
* Be responsible for minor wall and ceiling repair including spackling, sanding and painting.
* Participate in any training necessary to accommodate changes in operation
* which directly affects regular assigned duties.
* Commit to learning about continuous improvement strategies and applying them to everyday work. Actively engage in university continuous improvement initiatives.
* Apply safety-related knowledge, skills, and practices to everyday work.
Required Education, Certifications, Licensures
* High School diploma, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired.
Required Experience
* Experience working in a food service operation working with food production in a commercial, institutional, restaurant or hotel kitchen or similar food service operation.
* Experience serving customers.
* Experience with primary duties as a custodian, or an equivalent combination of experience to equal one year full time.
Desirable Education and/or Experience
* SERV safe Certified
Required Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities
* Excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrated ability to learn and follow instructions.
* Demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with people in varying situations and in all areas assigned.
* Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries and work harmoniously with diverse groups of students, faculty and staff.
* Demonstrated ability to work evenings and weekends, and at times be called in to work with very short notice.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities
* Demonstrated success in, or potential future contributions to, working with persons from diverse backgrounds, creating a sense of belonging, and fostering a fair, objective, welcoming place to work for persons with a wide variety of personal characteristics and viewpoints.
* Demonstrated success in, or potential future contributions to, working with persons with a wide variety of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Work Environment and/or Physical Demands
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals... For full info follow application link.
Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
