Cafeteria Assistant (3 hours)

Class: Classified • Dept: Child Nutrition

About the role

To assist in the preparation, sale, and service of food for the child nutrition program.

Responsibilities

• Follow all rules, policies, and procedures, along with state and federal regulations relevant to the child nutrition department.
• Assist in the preparation of food.
• Clean and wash dishes and equipment.
• Collect money and ID cards during meals, make reports of lunches and collections, and tabulate paid, free, and reduced-price meal counts.
• Participate in training programs.
• Keep the area neat and clean.
• Serve as a Bus Driver/Sub Bus Driver for a school bus as required by the principal.
• Perform related duties and responsibilities as requested by the Principal or Cafeteria Manager.

Requirements

• High School degree or equivalent.
• Must have all qualifications prescribed by the State Board of Education for bus drivers and maintain appropriate bus driver certification at all times.

Skills

• Demonstrate functional knowledge of basic principles of food cookery.
• Demonstrate functional knowledge of food service equipment.
• Ability to be mentally alert and apply knowledge applicable to the job.
• Ability to follow written recipes and instructions.
• Ability to operate dishwasher, food grinder, mixer, meat slicer, range, ovens, refrigerator, and freezer.
• Ability to operate a computer and a calculator correctly and accurately, as well as make change rapidly.
• Physical ability to exert up to 25 pounds of force.

Pay

$15.60 per hour (Grade 04C).

Schedule

Ten-month work year.