Kitchen Worker
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Job overview
Under direct supervision, the Kitchen Worker prepares food, assembles trays, serves and delivers meals, and maintains sanitation in food-service areas. The role includes delivering meal carts, collecting used dishes, maintaining food and supply inventory, and following food-storage guidelines. It is an on-call position with variable days and hours; holidays and weekends are required, with availability per CBA.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Job Summary:
Under direct supervision, performs routine food preparation, tray assembly, serving duties & delivery according to prescribed production schedules & established procedures. Responsible for maintaining sanitation of food service work areas and/or food service stations.
Essential Responsibilities:
This description is for recruitment posting purposes only. It has not received full HR review and approval.
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Upholds KPs Policies & Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, & applicable state, federal & local laws.
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Assembles all food & non-food items for patient trays, cafeteria and/or catering services.
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Delivers food carts w/patient meals/catered meals & nourishment to appropriate pantries & meeting rooms.
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Collects soiled meal dishes after meal services & returns them to dish room.
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Ensures quality & appearance of all food & non-food items, ensures proper storage of food & non- food items following Hazard Analysis Critical Control Policy (HACCP) guidelines.
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Cleans, sanitizes & maintains all dishes, food delivery carts, equipment, work areas, & pantry food stations.
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Maintains proper stock levels in own work area including taking & filing of inventory & disposal of outdated foods.
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Utilizes effective communications including telephone conversations w/ patients, doctors, & members, vendors, staff, & co-workers.
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Collects & maintains written information including logs, menus, slips, charts, forms, requisitions, filing & scheduling activities.
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May provide training & orientation.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
N/A
Education
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- HS Diploma/GED and/or equivalent experience.
License, Certification, Registration
- N/A
Additional Requirements:
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- Demonstrated ability to read, write, and follow written and oral instructions in English.
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- Ability to lift or move by other means items weighing up to 50lbs, carry items weighing 25lbs or more and push/pull carts weighing 100lbs or more.
Preferred Qualifications:
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- Two (2) years in a food service establishment (hospital, school cafeteria, nursing home restaurant), preferred.
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- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of hospital food service operations preferred.
Notes:
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Holidays and weekends required. Availability per CBA.
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This is an on call position, days and hours may vary.
COMPANY: KAISER
TITLE: Kitchen Worker
LOCATION: Woodland Hills, California
REQNUMBER: 1457142
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,119 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$65–84K/yr94 salary ranges
- California median$20–23/hr186 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 222 open Food Service jobs in California and 4,119 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Red Robin40 open
- Compass Group, North America34 open
- Chipotle Mexican Grill12 open
- Experience
- Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (521 postings).
- Education
- 20 of the 4,119 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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