MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Some experience in food service preparations. Quantity cooking experience preferred.
- Ability to count accurately.
- Have the physical capacity to handle food preparation, supplies, and operate kitchen equipment.
- Ability to work with many people and maintain positive attitude.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
SUPERVISOR:
Food Service Director
POSITION SUMMARY: To prepare and serve nutritious, attractive, tasteful food for students and school staff.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work cooperatively with colleagues, supervisors, and administrators.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior.
- Engage in self- development.
- Follow district policies and administrative rules and regulations.
- Maintain behavior appropriate to performing and accomplish assigned duties.
- Know what to do to successfully complete assigned work.
- Project over-all concern for personal appearance as it relates to job performance.
- Carry out assignments and instructions from supervisor in a competent and efficient manner.
- Communicate with supervisor and food service staff.
- Maintain personal safety and safety to others as number one priority.
- Maintain sanitation procedures in every area of food preparation, serving of meals and clean-up.
- Maintain sanitary personal hygiene.
- If bookwork or identifying and counting tickets is required, do it with accuracy and timeliness.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain positive relations with food service staff, students, principal, assistant principals, faculty, custodians, maintenance and all deliverymen.
- Put away all groceries.
- Work with student workers with patience and friendliness.
- Help co-workers as needed.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Standing, sitting, bending, lifting, reaching, carrying, climbing, squatting, kneeling, and stooping.
- Hand/eye coordination, normal range of sight and depth perception.
- Lifting from floor to mid-thigh maximum (30-50 pounds) occasionally. Lifting from mid- to- thigh to shoulder maximum (40-50 pounds) occasionally.
- Lifting from shoulder to overhead maximum (30 pounds) occasionally. Carrying (25-30 pounds) maximum regularly.
- Continual hand washing for sanitation purposes.
SAFETY AND HEALTH:
- Wear protective devices such as back supports, aprons, and hand guards.
- Use potholders when handling hot pans.
- Wear leather top, non-skid soled shoes.
- Read, observe, and understand precautious and proper methods of handling chemicals, equipment, food, and non-food products.
- Complete all required training.
- Knowledge of universal hygiene precautions.
EQUIPMENT/MATERIAL HANDLED:
- Food mixer and accessories, commercial dishwasher, convection oven, range, garbage disposal, walk-in freezer, walk-in cooler, reach-in refrigerator, steam tables, milk cooler, beverage dispensers, washer, dryer, and thermometers.
- Food and non-food products.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Amount of kitchen space, kind of equipment, and arrangement of equipment varies from school to school.
- Heat exists in the kitchen when oven(s) are being used. When being used, the dish room is hot and humid.
- Noise levels vary according to kind of work being done, and the kind of equipment being used.
- There are some distractions and interruptions of the work schedule to be dealt with every day.
- Storage of food and non-food products may be in small or large areas.
- Floor surface is floor tile.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: School Calendar of Employment to be established by the Board of Education on an annual basis.