26-27 Cafeteria Cook 6 hours - Soldier Creek

Salary schedule: RR

Department: Child Nutrition | FLSA status: Non-exempt | Safety-sensitive: Yes

About the role

This position works with the school cafeteria team to provide breakfast and lunch to students, focusing primarily on quality food production of menu items and production documentation.

Responsibilities

• Follows time, task, and rotation schedules assigned by the supervisor.
• Performs cleaning, serving, cashiering, and dish room duties as assigned.
• Prepares food according to production menus and recipes, ensuring appropriate amounts, quality (flavor and appearance), and food cost control using correct weights and measures.
• Collaborates with the supervisor to adjust recipes when needed.
• Ensures compliance with all Child Nutrition Department, local, state, and federal requirements, guidelines, policies, rules, and regulations.
• Follows all Child Nutrition cash control procedures.
• Assists co-workers and supervisor as necessary.
• Assumes a leadership role in the kitchen as directed by the supervisor, including opening and closing the kitchen in the supervisor’s absence.
• Assists the supervisor with documenting daily food preparation on production records and recipes.
• Performs additional duties assigned by the immediate supervisor or above.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; or one to three months of related experience and/or training.
• Basic computer data-entry skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to compose and write grammatically correct correspondence and memos.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with concrete variables in situations with limited standardization.
• Ability to interpret instructions in written, oral, diagram, schedule, or blueprint form.

Physical demands

The physical demands described are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Regularly uses hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Frequently stands, walks, climbs or balances, and stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls.
• Occasionally sits.
• Frequently lifts and/or moves up to or more than 10 pounds; occasionally lifts and/or moves up to or more than 50 pounds.
• Requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• Frequently works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions.
• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts, extreme cold (including outdoors), extreme heat (including direct sunlight), risk of electrical shock, and vibration.
• Noise level varies from somewhat loud to extremely loud.
• May be required to work at a different location in the event of a health crisis or disruptive situation that requires the closing of school and/or office buildings.

Supervisory responsibilities

May occasionally supervise a varying number of employees in the overall direction, coordination, and completion of tasks as assigned.