Food Service Worker 3

Important Notifications

Application Deadline: When applying, please keep in mind this posting will close at 11:59 pm the night before the posted "end date". Applications MUST be submitted prior to this deadline.

Current Employees: Do not apply via the OSU Career site. Instead, please login to your regular Workday account and visit the Jobs Hub to apply.

Department

• Special Instructions to Applicants:

When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:

• A resume; and
• A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position.
• Please upload responses to the following questions as a separate document.
• Describe your experience leading teams, indicating the organization(s) where you gained your experience.
• Describe your experience in food retail, indicating the organization(s) where you gained your experience.

Starting salary will be commensurate with skills, education, and experience.

Job Summary

This recruitment will be used to fill multiple full-time, 10-month, Food Service Worker 3 positions for University Housing and Dining Services at Oregon State University (OSU).

The purpose of the Food Service Worker 3 position is to perform a variety of food preparation and food service activities, including lead worker responsibilities for a restaurant concept. This position will work with and assist the manager of these locations to establish and implement guidelines within the unit, and to maintain established focus on customer care, student employee development and product quality.

This position will potentially serve as a back-up person for the delivery of food and beverage items into access-secured residence halls, where there may be minors present; and/or this position may need to regularly access storage areas in a residence hall without an escort.

UHDS's vision is to engage our students, enrich their lives, and help them thrive. UHDS strives to provide students, faculty, staff, and guests with safe, economical, convenient, and comfortable living and dining options, and the department works to maintain the highest educational and service standards.

UHDS houses 5,000 students and offers a variety of living and dining options in residence halls, student and family apartments, three dining centers, catering, a market, and retail and coffee shop locations across campus. UHDS is an auxiliary enterprise which is funded solely by customers who use our services - we receive no State or General fund allocation.

UHDS is committed to an appreciation for inclusive excellence, and fosters an open, respectful and enjoyable living, learning and working environment.

UHDS staff members are expected to demonstrate a personal and professional commitment to providing excellent customer service. Creating inclusive, welcoming, and safe environments are core values of University Housing and Dining Services.

The UHDS Culinary Team is committed to providing an inspirational culinary experience through a food-first philosophy: integrating nutrition, quality, and passion in food. This team is dedicated to sustainable practices, food innovation, and supportive work environments. Food is a voice to expressing these values along with educating students, staff, guests, and the OSU community.

This position is eligible for meal perquisites per the SEIU contract.

This position will adhere to all OSU and UHDS policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve internal and external customers in a prompt, courteous manner
• Maintain established high standards of service, quality and cost awareness
• Perform lead work duties
• Maintain a clean, sanitary operation by performing established cleaning duties following all health department guidelines for safe food handling procedures
• Supply inventory responsibilities
• Miscellaneous

Required Qualifications

• Three years of experience in a commercial food service facility; OR an Associate's Degree in Food Service Management.
• Knowledge of retail food service.
• Experience operating commercial food service equipment.
• Experience in food service safety and sanitation process and procedures.
• Ability to respond positively to changing work demands.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to understand and convey written and verbal directions/instructions, recipes, safety information, machine instructions, and other communications.
• Good customer services skills when working with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to cooperatively and positively work with a wide variety of groups of individuals. University Housing and Dining Services values the rich diversity of its workforce, which includes people with and without disabilities, people for whom English is a second language, people who are military veterans, and people from a wide range of countries, races, ethnicities, cultures, colors, age groups, socioeconomic statuses, locations, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and religious backgrounds.
• Demonstrable ability to cooperatively and positively lead a wide variety of groups of employees.
• The employee in this position will often be required to lift and/or carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds, and/or push and/or pull carts weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Requires a valid Food Handler's certificate within 30 days of employment. Must maintain certification throughout employment with UHDS.
• Offers of employment are contingent upon meeting all minimum qualifications including the Criminal History Check Requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience training employees.
• Cashiering experience, which includes accurate cash handling skills.

Physical Working Conditions

• This is a physically active job in a kitchen and retail environment. Incumbent will experience long periods of standing on a hard floor; working with commercial kitchen/baking equipment; and fluctuations in work flow, temperature and noise level.
• Must be able to work shift on your feet and perform frequent arm movements.
• The employee in this position will often be required to lift and/or carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds, and push and/or pull carts weighing up to 50 pounds.
• May require work in areas that prepare and handle raw meat, as well as most common food allergens, including gluten.
• OSU is a 100% tobacco-free campus.

Work Schedule

Flexibility in work shifts is necessary. Shift and/or work assignment may be changed based on operational needs. Because we are responsible to provide all meals for the student residents, we are a seven-day-a-week operation, and early morning, evening, weekend and holiday work may be required.

• Good attendance is crucial for stability and day-to-day business needs. Must follow attendance schedule and break schedule, and must be on time and in uniform when shift begins.
• Employees in this position may be moved from front of house to back of house or vice versa, per term and with advance notice, as based on business needs.
• This position is deemed essential; and the incumbent is expected to report to work during inclement weather, emergency and other University work curtailments or closures.

Salary Range

Anticipated Start Date: 2027-01-04

Anticipated End Date

When applying, please keep in mind this posting will close at 11:59 pm the night before the posted "end date". Applications MUST be submitted prior to this deadline.

OSU will conduct a review of the National Sex Offender Public website prior to hire.

We encourage applications from candidates who bring a wide range of lived experience including involvement with the justice system.

If this position has "critical or security-sensitive" responsibilities and/or driving duties and you are selected as a finalist, your initial job offer will be contingent upon the results of a job-related pre-employment check (such as a background check, motor vehicle history check, sexual misconduct reference check, etc.). Background check results do not automatically disqualify a candidate.

Take a look at our Background Checks website including the for candidates section for more details. If you have questions or concerns about the pre-employment check, please contact OSU's Employee and Labor Relations team at.