Senior Custodian , Berkeley Dining

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In the Division of Student Affairs and under the Residential Student Services Programs portfolio, Berkeley Dining is a self-operated dining program focused on culinary excellence, social responsibility and supporting the living/learning environment of our customers.

With more than 12,000 meal plan holders, Berkeley Dining serves over 5 million meals per year in 14 facilities with a combination of residential "all you care to eat" dining, retail "a la carte" dining, training table, early childhood meal production and catering. Berkeley Dining services the campus seven days per week, seventeen hours per day employing 450 full and part time staff and approximately 400 Cal student workers across multiple locations.

The Senior Custodian maintains the overall appearance, sanitation and safety of dining operations. This position sorts and disposes of garbage, compost and other recyclable materials and breaks down cardboard boxes. The Senior Custodian cleans trash and disposable containers and collection areas, and sweeps, mops, buffs, and vacuums floors in assigned areas. Additionally, this position washes pots, pans, and utensils, operates dish room equipment, sets up tables and chairs in dining rooms and other facilities, and resupplies beverage machines and dispensers.

General Cleaning - 60%

• Appropriately disposes trash, compost, recyclables and other garbage from all dining service areas, cleans containers, trash collection areas and loading dock. Hoses out garbage rooms in units that have garbage rooms as needed.
• Sweeps, strips, mops, buffs, waxes and vacuums floors in laundry room, kitchen, dish room, serving line, offices, bathrooms, storerooms and docks.
• Cleans and maintains supplies in all dining service bathrooms.
• Cleans walls, baseboards, mats, drains and vents in kitchen and serving line.
• Cleans glass windows and doors. Cleans entryways and service lines. Spot cleans carpets.
• Washes pots, pans and utensils; puts clean items away. Washes steam jacketed kettles. Operates and maintains pot washing machine, floor scrubber, buffer, water vacuum, vacuum cleaner, steam jacketed kettles, dish machine, portable steam cleaner, mops and brooms.
• Cleans equipment: refrigerators, dish machine, trayveyor, kettles and pots.
• Works and directs staff in dish room and pot-washing areas.
• Power washes carts, docks, trayveyor and dish room.
• Assists in cleaning all food service equipment on a regular basis.
• Safely uses cleaning chemicals.

Customer Service - 20%

• Maintains service and dining areas during meals periods.
• Cleans up spills, keeps floors clear of debris, removes trash.
• Maintains supplies of milk, soda syrup, CO2 and ice.
• Responsible for table and chair set up in dining rooms.
• Establish and maintain positive relations with our customers. Listen, and if possible resolves customers needs and reports them to…