Food Service/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.

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.

Work environment

CFB Suffield is considered to be a semi-isolated base, located approximately 50 kms north west of the City of Medicine Hat in the southeast corner of Alberta. Most of the civilian personnel who work at the base live either in Medicine Hat or in the small town of Redcliff just to the west of the Medicine Hat city limits. This is an important point to note as there is no accommodation on the base and there is no public transportation to the base. Personnel either drive their own vehicle or car pool with others. Commuting assistance is provided for employees who live in Medicine Hat or Redcliff. For other information on the City of Medicine Hat, please visit www.medicinehat.ca. For information on CFB Suffield, please visit www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/cfb-suffield/index.page.

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions on an indeterminate or term basis, including casual employment and with various security requirements.

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.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

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

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

*Recent and significant experience working in an institutional, commercial or industrial food service environment (such as nursing homes, restaurants, bakeries, fast food, 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 Mess Facility
Experience supervising employees

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Ability to communicate orally

Effective interpersonal skills
Dependability

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

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal peoples, Persons with a Disability, Visible Minorities, Women.

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
Candidates may be required to obtain and maintain a military driver's permit (DND 404/FMT 600), which may require possession of a valid unrestricted Class 5 Alberta driver's license (or provincial or territorial equivalent)
Wear CSA approved safety footwear and other personal protective equipment as required

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

** Applications may be faxed to (204) 833-2513. Please reference "Suffield FOS-02 Kitchen Helper inventory". **

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

If you do not fully complete the screening questions as instructed, you may be screened out. Candidates must clearly demonstrate in their resume that they meet the education and experience requirements. Failure to provide sufficient information will result in the candidate being screened out.

Candidates assessed as not being qualified as part of the screening and/or assessment process, may re-apply at any time. However, screening and/or assessment of new applications will occur no sooner than 6 months after the last screening/assessment has taken place.

It is your responsibility to check your e-mail regularly to ensure that you do not miss out on any opportunities. Failure to respond in the timeframe provided will result in you not being referred to the organization.

Successful candidate(s) must meet and maintain the Conditions of Employment throughout their employment.

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.