Complex sentence: The chief steward directs, instructs, and assigns personnel performing such functions as preparing and serving meals; cleaning and maintaining officers' quarters and steward department areas; and receiving, issuing, and inventorying stores.
Split into simpler sentences: The chief steward directs, instructs, and assigns personnel performing such functions as preparing and serving meals. Moreover, the steward overseas cleaning and maintaining officers' quarters and steward department areas; and receiving, issuing, and inventorying stores.