Casual Inventory - Kitchen Helper

Important messages

When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.

The client organization will accept applications on-line only. All job applications must therefore be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System. To submit an application on-line, please select the button "Apply Online" below. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

Duties

Key Activities: Prepares, presents and delivers food products and services to clients in a dining room through dispersed meals, box lunches, sandwich bars, take out service and on occasion, table service. Receives, labels, stores and distributes food, cleaning and paper supplies. Collects meal charges. Maintains the facility and monitors equipment and supplies.

Intent of the process

This inventory is for casual employment only which is a temporary employment of 90 workings days or less in a calendar year.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

Contact information for 2 references.

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Experience working in an institutional, commercial or industrial food service environment (such as nursing homes, restaurants, bakeries, fast food, military mess facilities)

*Recent and significant experience working in an institutional, commercial or industrial food service environment (such as nursing homes, restaurants, bakeries, fast food, military mess facilities)
*Recent is defined as within the last 2 years and Significant is defined as at least 6 months or longer.

Experience with cashier duties and/or operating a point of sale terminal

Experience working in a Canadian or Foreign Service military environment

Experience in supervising employees

Ability to communicate
Ability to follow direction
Ability to demonstrate safe lifting practices

Effective interpersonal skills
Dependability

May be required to work shift work
May be required to work overtime
May be required to work weekends
May be required to lift and carry items weighing up to 20 kg in accordance with general safety practices
Wear CSA approved safety footwear and other personal protective equipment as required

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

Candidates may be offered positions as they become available. Therefore, you are encouraged to complete your application as soon as possible. Candidates will be assessed at various times.

Interviews and reference checks may be conducted.

A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.