Cafeteria Operator

Essential Duties

• Prepare assigned breakfast and lunch meals.
• Follow established recipes as assigned by cafeteria management to ensure quality, portion and nutritional requirements.
• Serve attractive, well presented and portion-controlled menu items in a friendly manner.
• Follow specific sanitation and food safety practices established by the food service child nutrition program.
• Attend a 10-hour sanitation course provided by HCS food services and a refresher course every three years.
• Complete safe school's training videos regarding practicing safety requirements in all kitchen areas.
• Complete job requirements in assigned areas, which may include but not limited to the following: cashiering, baking, maintaining dish room, daily record keeping, properly receiving and storing of food and supplies, fruit/vegetable preparation, salad/sandwich preparation, mainline cooking, inventory control and kitchen janitorial duties.
• Follow general directions and assignments required by cafeteria management with limited supervision.

Physical Effort

• Frequent lifting or moving of objects weighing 30 to 50 pounds.
• Sweeping, mopping, twisting, turning, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling.

Working Conditions

• Works in noisy kitchen with fluctuating temperatures, exposure to steam, fumes, cooking odors and chemicals.
• Danger of slips, trips, falls, burns and cuts.
• Exposure to extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigerators/freezers.

Equipment Operation

• Responsible for operating dangerous pieces of equipment -- meat slicers, food choppers, garbage disposals, etc.
• Responsible for the breakdown and cleaning of all equipment, including the inside, outside and filters of the kitchen hood and dishwasher hood.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required)

• A high school diploma.
• Previous school food service experience preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or crawl.
• Frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry.
• Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here 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 the essential functions.

Pay Grade

Pay Grade: 101

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