Dining Center Coordinator

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Food Safety: Takes food temperatures, holds food to a correct temperature, and dates food. Records temperatures on a log when the food arrives, when meals are delivered, and when food is served for congregate diners.
• Cook and Package Home-Delivered Meals: Reviews route sheets, labels food with the correct volunteer and notes cancelled meals. Dates meals and holds correct temperature by putting meal trays in oven and collates cold and frozen meals for each route with ice packs in coolers and when volunteer arrives heats the hot pack and packages meal in thermal bags for each route. Provides instructions and reviews the route with the volunteer and upon return reviews if there were any concerns with customers. Unpacks coolers and thermal bags and sanitizes equipment.
• Set-up: Wash, sanitize, and correctly set table with placemat, plasticware, napkin, cup, and condiments.
• Serving Meals: Makes and serves coffee, checks food temperature before serving; serves milk and plates food according to serving size, makes up frozen trays with extra food and dating food.
• Meal Clean-up: Puts bulk serving containers in coffin and any extra tools used to hold temperatures from caterer; prepares coffins for Meal Program Staff Driver to pick up. Wash tables, sweeps floor, puts away condiments, takes out garbage, wash and sanitize serving spoons, and cleans coffee maker.
• Sanitation: Wash and disinfect/sanitize work area, tables, counters.
• Daily Paperwork: Collects sign-in sheet, counts daily donations and record on deposit summary. Completes daily roster for meals served and if nutrition education was passed out. Collects route sheets from home delivered meal volunteers and confirms everyone was home for food delivery. Checks on number of meals to order. Listens to phone messages, answers phone, adds ordered/cancelled meals to roster/route sheets, coordinates volunteer schedule.
• Meal Ordering: Records meals on roster for meal reservations, and notes whether a congregate dining meal or a carryout meal and information given to the Meal Program Coordinator.
• Volunteer Coordination: Makes sure there is a scheduled volunteer for the day. Calls for replacement volunteer if scheduled volunteer cancels. Reviews route information for the day with volunteers.
• Volunteer Supervision: Supervises volunteers who set up service, assist with serving meals, and cleans up after service. Serves as substitute meal manager and oversees duties being completed, and records volunteer hours.

Minimum Education Qualifications

• High School diploma.
• Two years working with senior population, one year food service experience a plus but not needed.
• Successful passage of Serving Safe Food test after hire.
• Completion of the following tests in a three-year period: Food Safety, Accident Prevention, Customer Service, Ethics and Boundaries/Confidentiality, Nutrition Standards/Portion Control, First Aid Choking, Emergency Preparedness/Severe Weather, Red Flags
• Annual Fire Safety training.

Benefits

Ozaukee County offers a generous benefits package including: health, dental, life, & vision insurance; free employee health clinic & Teladoc; paid holidays, vacation, & sick time; state of Wisconsin WRS defined benefit pension program; bonus opportunities; employee fitness room; wellness program & wellness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement & continuing education opportunities; and more!