Food Service Assistant

Salary: $18.72 per hour

About the role

Responsible for assisting the School Dining Services program as needed.

Responsibilities

• Assists in maintaining high standard of nutrition for school dining service program.
• Assists in preparing, cooking, and serving meals (Breakfast & Lunch) at assigned school.
• Follows all established sanitation procedures.
• Assists in student, money, and meal accountability as required in assigned school.
• Assists in supervision of children during meal service as required in assigned school.
• Washes and sanitizes food service utensils.
• Works harmoniously with staff.
• Uses equipment correctly and reports needed maintenance.
• Lifts and stores food and food-related products.
• Performs all other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School graduate or GED equivalent.
• Training in sanitation, food handling, and safety.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively with individuals and groups of employees.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Knowledge of basic mathematics.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with concrete variables in situations with limited standardization.
• Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to use a Personal Computer with database, spreadsheet, and word-processing software.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, and the school community.
• Ability to speak clearly and concisely in both oral and written communication.
• Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and School Committee policies.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to stand and walk.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment involves typical food service settings. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

• Health insurance with up to 89% of the premium paid by the employer.
• Dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible spending and dependent care accounts.
• Maine Public Employee, 403(b), and 457 retirement plans.
• Paid sick leave and vacation time.
• Paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.