Fresh Food Area Service Assistants

**Get the opportunity to work within these dynamic departments at Costco Wholesale Gold Coast**

**Service Deli Assistant**

Prepares, packages, and labels meals, entrees, salads, party trays, rotisserie chicken, sliced meats, and cheeses. Prepares take-and-bake pizzas. Stocks and rotates merchandise in the display case. Maintains machinery and equipment. Provides prompt and courteous customer service to members, employees, and suppliers. Follows proper safety procedures and standards.

**Assistant**:

- Dismantles equipment, washes, rinses and sanitises removable parts, equipment in Deli and Rotisserie rooms
- Inspects and reassembles equipment, addresses any corrective actions from the previous night
- Rework display case, filling and rotating merchandise
- Completes required department paperwork
- Cleans and sanitises work area throughout the day following Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) guidelines for proper cleaning and sanitation of all equipment required by this position
- Completes and complies with 11 Commandments of Quality assurance, Food Safety Certification, department specific training, and all safety training required by warehouse, service deli and rotisserie department
- Complies with health code by following sanitation standards and maintaining proper temperatures
- Stocks and rotates supplies in cooler/freezer
- Removes rubbish from department and work areas
- Operates rubbish compactor and cardboard baler
- Skewers and loads chicken into rotisserie ovens
- Cooks chicken as per Standard Operating Procedure
- Packages, labels and displays chicken in hot holding cabinet
- Adheres to all departments Standard Operating Procedures
- Prepares meat, poultry, cold meat, vegetables and seafood as per Standard Operating Procedures
- Assembles platters, pizzas, sushi, salads, raw meats and other items sold in the Service Deli and Rotisserie departments
- Assists with other department of the warehouse as necessary
- Provides and ensures prompt and courteous customer service to members, employees and vendors

**Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery**
- Pressure washer, commercial dish washer, combination heat/steam oven/s, rotisserie, warming case, wrapping machine, knife, shears, wheeled racks, proofing boxes, rubbish compactor, cardboard baler, pallet jack, blast chiller, air hose cleaner, step ladder, phone, computer, calculator, copier

**Food Court Service Assistant**

Prepares and sells food and drink items to customers from a food court kitchen. Pulls and stocks supplies and ingredients. Cleans kitchen and eating areas. Processes sales, collects money, and dispenses food and drink items. Follows proper safety and sanitation procedures and standards. Provides prompt and courteous member service.
- Cleans and sanitises the workstations
- Sweeps, mops, sprays, washes, applies cleaning agents, wipes, and operates pressure washer
- Cleans and re-fills mop bucket. Cleans mop head
- Follows general safety and sanitation procedures and standards
- Dismantles equipment. Washes, rinses, and sanitises removable parts
- Wipes down stationary parts
- Washes containers and utensils
- Re-stocks supplies and industrial-sized containers of ingredients
- Collects cardboard and rubbish, operates rubbish compactor and cardboard baler
- Takes laundry to service pick up area
- Logs sanitation procedures performed on daily report and complies with health codes
- Follows proper general safety and security procedures and standards. Reads labels for proper use and precautions of cleaning products
- Follows Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) guidelines as it refers to proper cleaning and sanitation of all equipment required by this position
- Completes and complies with the 11 Commandments of Quality Assurance, Food Safety Certification and all safety training required by warehouse and Food Court department
- Follows department production procedures and standards for quality and consistency of finished product
- Assist in other departments of warehouse as necessary
- Follows general safety and sanitation procedures and standards
- Provide prompt and courteous customer service to members, employees, and suppliers
- Operates cash registers

**Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery**
- Pizza oven, steam table, latte machine, yoghurt and smoothie machine, dough press, scale, cash register, phone, wheeled rack, rubbish compactor, cardboard baler, dishwasher, fire extinguisher, deep fryers, hot holders and proofers, computer, printer, copier

Education/Training:

- High School Certificate or higher

Licenses/Certifications:

- None required

Other Skills and Abilities:

- Food service, food court, food handling or comparable experience
- Strong customer service, communication, interpersonal and organisation skills
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Basic math skills