FOOD SERVICE GENERAL WORKER-STIRLING ELEMENTARY

Hourly rate: $15.84 • 5.5 hours per day

About the role

Perform skilled work in the preparation and service of nutritionally adequate, reimbursable meals. Ensure production deadlines are met and maintain responsibility for the quality of food products.

Responsibilities

• Follow daily work schedules for food production, service, and cleaning.
• Participate in state-approved training and educational initiatives relating to Food & Nutrition Services, including Foundations of School Food Service, Nutrition, Quantity Cooking, and Sanitation.
• Demonstrate and promote exceptional customer service, using good judgment and professionalism when interacting with the public, students, parents, and staff.
• Operate point-of-sale systems according to federal guidelines when assigned.
• Adhere to food safety rules, departmental procedures, and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), ensuring a safe work environment.
• Perform kitchen duties including pre-preparation, food production, service, backup, clean-up, and order check-in as needed.
• Ensure meal service is safe and good quality food is served according to approved meal pattern requirements.
• Assist with ordering, proper storage, and inventories for all supplies and food items received.
• Follow written recipes and instructions for food preparation; record time, amounts used, leftovers, and temperature on production worksheets.
• Operate food service equipment safely.
• Maintain a clean work environment by removing and disposing of garbage and waste.
• Ensure sanitation practices are adhered to, including compliance with personal hygiene and grooming standards.
• Perform necessary cleaning of food service equipment and facilities that does not require climbing.
• Drive vans to satellite sites for food delivery, gas, and cleaning as directed.
• Drive refrigerated/freezer trucks between sites.
• Participate in training programs to enhance skills and proficiency related to job responsibilities.
• Review current developments, literature, and technical sources of information related to job responsibilities.
• Ensure adherence to safety rules and procedures, following federal and state laws, as well as School Board policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements

• Prior food service or cashier work experience.
• Ability to follow directions, read, and communicate in English.
• Ability to effectively communicate with students, teachers, school administrators, and other Food & Nutrition service-related personnel.
• Computer skills as required for the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• A standard high school diploma or satisfactory completion of an approved General Educational Development (GED) Testing Program.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License.
• Bilingual skills.

Physical Requirements

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as needed to move objects.
• Perform necessary average lifting up to 30 pounds.