Food Handler Job Description
Food Handler Duties & Responsibilities
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Food Handler Qualifications
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Education for Food Handler
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Skills for Food Handler
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Food Handler Examples
Food Handler Job Description
- Perform all required forklift checklists
- Support all converting equipment (Laminators, Slitters, Sheeter, Ream Cutter and Lid Presses) to ensure accurate, steady supply of raw materials, WIP and packing supplies
- Remove completed wrapped and tagged product from all converting equipment and transfer to designated storage, stretch wrap and or banding areas
- Shuttle skidded material to and from the stretch wrapper as needed
- Inspect product to ensure tags are in place and accurately identify the material
- Transport product to the banding stretch wrapping staging area
- Read, interpret, and understand all job Jackets, Spec Sheets, skid tags and product load tags
- Minimize product damage through safe and careful handling
- Inspect finished product to ensure quality packaging specifications are met
- Ensure all paperwork and system transactions are completed timely and accurately
- Maintain full compliance of all GMPs
- Maintain housekeeping excellence in accordance with NSF/GMP Housekeeping standards
- Follow all safety procedures and promote safety & safety programs throughout the facility
- Perform all required customer and departmental quality checks
- Participate and ensure department is compliant with NSF/GMP audit regulations
- Perform daily forklift inspections for each lift used
Food Handler Job Description
- Band and transport all skidded and roll scrap to scrap staging area
- Assist all production and shipping personnel as needed
- Participate in Monthly inventories
- Ability to work safely, comply with all safety rules, lift, push or pull >100lbs, navigate stairs
- Acts as general assistant in a kitchen, bakery, cannery, dining room, cafeteria, or other food preparation or service unit
- Washes, scrubs, pares, hulls, cores, and prepares vegetables, fruits, and berries for cooking or for serving using manual or power driven equipment
- Keeps the kitchen or other areas in a safe, clean, and orderly condition at all times
- Serves food from steam tables or from other cooking utensils, and arranges and delivers trays
- Prepares salads, desserts, and beverages
- Provides service to tables
- Expose to fall hazards
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information system used by the agency, office, or related units
- Capable of safely and efficiently operating a powered industrial forklift and clamp forklift
- Support all converting equipment (Forming Machines, Window Machine, Post Folder-Gluer, Shrink Tunnel, Till Machine) to ensure accurate, steady supply of raw materials, WIP and packing supplies
- Maintains in-process inventory at work centers by delivering and opening materials and supplies
- Receives credit-return material and supplies from production by verifying materials and supplies code and lot number and quantity
Food Handler Job Description
- Complete all material transfers using DSI scanner to ensure that system inventory is accurate
- Correct all inventory discrepancies with Inventory Control Coordinator
- Ensure that all warehouse storage locations comply with department safe storage standards
- Complete FDA Certification labeling on pending product in storage and locate to stock locations
- Assist with physical warehouse inventory and correct inventory discrepancies
- Conduct QC and Micro sampling as requested by Inventory Control or Sample Labs
- Ensure all finished goods meet required labeling (weight, quantity, resource code, ) and storage guidelines before transferring to stock locations
- Receive inbound raw materials and packaging supplies delivered to the Shipping Dock
- Comply with all department procedures for the safe loading/unloading of trailers at the dock
- Record all trailer loading and unloading activity on the Trailer Inspection Report (FMSSH001)
- Comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and housekeeping standards
- Other duties as assigned by the Logistics Manager in support of Warehouse Operations
- Ability to operate motorized equipment, lift 100 lb
- Position requires successful completion of 49CFR DOT Hazardous Materials Offeror within 90 days of being assigned and recertification every three years minimum, in compliance with all applicable regulations
- Ability to rotate through a variety of tasks
- Ability to meet the required work schedule
Food Handler Job Description
- Maintain up keep of sales floors and general dining area
- Replenishes all drink stations and keep clean
- Safely drive and operate 20-foot refrigerated truck through high traffic areas
- Must be able to safely transport food on racks, and in hot boxes between convention loading docks and to and from kitchen
- Operate pallet jack and lift gate
- Direct banquet stewarding food runners on where to take product
- Safely transport, tie down, and store food in truck, dry storage areas, freezers, and coolers
- Communicate to chefs and culinary team
- Reviews menus and product needs for all areas of food service within Waukesha Memorial Food Service and places orders for those items
- Ability to use the computer daily
- Organization Scheduling
- Ability to lift and carry at least 60 lbs repetitively for frequent extended periods
- Ability to work in varying environments
- Previous food manufacturing and/or production experience
- Track record of safe work history in the past 12 months
- Basic technical abilities to effectively troubleshoot manufacturing and packaging equipment
Food Handler Job Description
- Audits delivery trucks for temperature, cleanliness and overall condition
- Audits pallets for quality of pallet, product, temperature and stacking method
- Notifies vendor of damaged items received or items that are incorrect received
- Receives supplies and equipment, signs appropriate documents indicating receipt, compares product against invoice and handles any discrepancies
- Tracks all necessary invoices and receiving documents, delivering these to appropriate person for payment and tracking purposes
- Inventories all dry storage, chemical storage, freezer and cooler storage before placing vendor orders
- Monitors all temperatures of storage areas including dry storage, coolers and freezers
- Monitors and keeps food service product and materials inventory to their given par levels
- Transfers materials received from skids/pallets to the proper location using proper body mechanics and lifting equipment, as warranted
- Rotates placement of stock items on the shelves according to expiration dates for inventory turnover purposes, ensuring the oldest product is used first according to expiration dates
- Preferred to see 1 year + of warehousing experience
- No need to join a gym! This role will require lifting 50lbs bags of ingredients by hand
- Do you know the value of a great team? Teamwork is one of our values and critical to everyone’s success
- Because you’ll be part of a team that will count on you, we’d like to see solid work attendance in your current/previous job
- Because the safety of you and our team are important to us, successfully passing a drug and background will be required
- Previous experience driving delivery trucks for commercial purposes preferred