Profession airline food service worker

Airline food service workers prepare food and serve customers. They prepare simple dishes to be used in places that serve food such restaurants, cafetarias, hotels, hospitals and ensure that kitchen operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Related professions catering

• Catering manager
• Fast food cook
• Fast-food branch manager
• First line supervisor food preparation workers
• Food deliverer
• Food preparation worker
• Kitchen assistant
• Kitchen manager

Knowledge

• Food legislation

  Legislation related to the food and feed industry including food manufacturing, hygiene, safety, raw materials, additives, GMOs, labelling, environmental and trade regulations.

• Foodborne diseases

  Understand foodborne illnesses and poisoning as to prevent public health problems.

• Food preservation

  Deterioration factors, controlling factors (temperature, additives, humidity, pH, water activity, etc., including packaging) and food processing methods to preserve food products.

• Food allergies

  The types of food allergies within the sector, which substances trigger allergies, and how they can be replaced or eliminated (if possible).

Skills

• Comply with food safety and hygiene

  Respect optimal food safety and hygiene during preparation, manufacturing, processing, storage, distribution and delivery of food products.

• Maintain food specifications

  Preserve, review, and evaluate existing food specifications such as recipes.

• Store raw food materials

  Keep in reserve raw materials and other food supplies, following stock control procedures.

• Use different communication channels

  Make use of various types of communication channels such as verbal, handwritten, digital and telephonic communication with the purpose of constructing and sharing ideas or information.

• Follow control of substances hazardous to health procedures

  Adhere to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) procedures for activities that involve hazardous substances, such as bacteria, allergens, waste oil, paint or brake fluids that result in illness or injury.

• Follow hygienic procedures during food processing

  Ensure a clean working space according to hygienic standards in the food processing industry.

• Clean kitchen equipment

  Disinfect kitchen equipment, utensils and other facilities such as trolleys and hot cupboards.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB