FOOD SERVICE GENERAL WORKER-WINSTON PARK ELEMENTARY

Hourly rate: $15.84. Hours per day: 5.00.

About the role

Perform skilled work in the preparation and service of nutritionally adequate, reimbursable meals. Responsible for meeting production deadlines and ensuring the quality of food products.

Responsibilities

• Follow daily work schedules for food production, service, and cleaning.
• Participate in on-going state-approved training and educational initiatives relating to Food & Nutrition Services, including Foundations of School Food Service, Nutrition, Quantity Cooking, and Sanitation class.
• Demonstrate and promote exceptional customer service, using good judgment and professionalism when interacting and communicating with the general 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 at all times.
• Perform kitchen duties as assigned, including but not limited to pre-preparation, food production, service, backup, clean-up, and checking in orders as needed.
• Assist in ensuring that meal service is safe and that good quality food is served according to approved meal pattern requirements at the appropriate times.
• Assist with ordering, proper storage, and inventories for all supplies and food items received.
• Follow written recipes and instructions for food preparation; record the time, amounts used in food preparation, leftovers, and temperature on production worksheets.
• Operate food service equipment in a safe manner.
• 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 individual 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 or designee.

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.