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Employee will rotate through job assignments and perform the following duties:

• Prepares grilled items such as Pancakes, French Toast, Eggs, and Hamburgers. Prepares a variety of hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, and gravies, cold sandwich fillings, and fresh, canned, or frozen vegetables. Sets up and replenishes salad bars.
• Prepares food by peeling, chopping, grinding, paring, cutting, slicing, dicing, pureeing, dredging, flouring, or breading. Weighs, measures, and assembles ingredients for regular and modified menu items. Mixes ingredients according to precisely written recipes. Covers, dates, and stores leftovers according to established procedures.
• Responsible for preparing foods required to serve prescribed regular and modified diets to patients and for ensuring that meals are served in accordance with physicians' order, with a minimum of supervision. Places portioned meats, biscuits, and other food in pans or trays. Portions foods for distribution and meal service.
• Operates and maintains a wide variety of food service equipment, i.e. steam kettles, grill, slicer, blender, etc. Operates a variety of kitchen equipment using gas, electricity, steam, or microwave heat sources. Disassembles, cleans, and assembles component parts and accessories, following safety procedures to avoid personal injury and damage to the equipment.
• Uses and cleans a variety of cooking utensils to measure, weigh, and process food items. Cleans, store, and maintains all equipment and work areas after each use. Cleans other work areas and equipment, such as worktables, floors, walk-in refrigerators, etc., on an established cleaning schedule.
• Follows established procedures when handling food. Ensures that foods are stored at the correct temperatures to prevent bacteria growth. Maintains a neat and clean work area. Maintains proper storage of cleaning agents and performs full range of sanitation tasks in accordance with established procedures and HAACP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) guideline.
• Checks regular and modified diet trays on Centralized Tray Service line, in CLC and Cafeteria lines to ensure accuracy, completeness, and attractiveness of each tray. Fills complex combination diet orders, accurate substitute food items and honor patients' food preference within limits of the diet order.
• Relieves in the Ingredient Control, Food Production and Nourishment areas as assigned. Meets prescribed deadlines.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Pre-employment physical may be required
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS:
Employee must be able to stand and walk all day, bend, stoop, reach, and lift moderately heavy objects. Must be able to lift or move objects up to 40 pounds unassisted, and occasionally lift or move objects weighing over 40 pounds with the assistance of other workers or lifting devices. The employee is required to wear protective shoes, appropriate hearing protection, gloves, and other safety and food handling items required by food handling guides.

Works in temperature extremes from ovens, steamers, grills, refrigerators, and freezers. Subject to cuts, bruises, and/or burns or falls from working with sharp instruments, heated equipment, and walking on wet and slippery floors. Must stand on tile and cement floors, subject to burns, cuts, and slipping on wet floors. Work is performed in a hospital and nursing home and involves some exposure to contagious disease.

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 (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). 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.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Food Service
• Special Aptitude - Food Service Work
• Without more than normal supervision

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.