SCHOOL FOOD SVC ASST LEAD - ATWATER BAY ES

About the role

The position serves in a lead capacity and performs skilled food preparation, service, and clean-up tasks for an assigned school of the district. Employees in this classification possess previous vocational training and/or experience in hospitality or industrial school food preparation and service, and demonstrate a high degree of knowledge, skills, and abilities in the field.

Responsibilities

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Assigns, reviews, plans, and coordinates at the direction of the School Food Service Manager.
• Maintains a neat personal appearance.
• Monitors break and lunch compliance for all staff members; assigns and reassigns staff members during these periods to provide consistency in work coverage as directed by School Food Service Manager.
• Ensures that students and staff receive prompt, friendly, and personalized service.
• Assists School Food Service Manager in maintaining standards by reporting problems in the cafeteria.
• Ensures point of sale procedures are implemented and conducted in accordance with F&NS approved policies and procedures.
• Participates in decisions with regards to implementing changes in the school(s).
• Performs planning activities, i.e., reviewing menus for item availability, ordering required menu inventories, ordering materials and supplies.
• Assists manager, as required, in daily accounting, receipts balancing, and inventory and ordering tasks.
• Accountable for the documentation and recording of all meals served.
• May serve as the lead in a satellite school reporting to the base school food service manager.
• Performs food preparation, service, and clean-up duties in one or more functional areas, i.e., snack bar, salad bar, cashiering, food preparation, baking, cooking, set up, clean-up.
• Performs set up activities, i.e., assembling trays and carts, preparing condiments, assembling service lines, stocking utensils and napkins, reviewing menus, retrieving stock.
• Performs food preparation activities, i.e., assembling recipe/menu items, washing and cutting fruits and vegetables, slicing breads and meats, opening canned goods, mixing ingredients.
• Performs cooking activities, i.e., baking breads and desserts, steaming vegetables, baking meats and main dishes.
• Performs serving activities, i.e., filling serving trays, measuring and monitoring quantities to ensure sufficient amounts, maintaining temperatures.
• Interprets recipes and makes necessary adjustments, as needed.
• Assists the manager in ensuring that all required reports and paperwork are accurately completed in a timely manner.
• Assists manager in coping with emergencies.
• Performs clean-up activities, i.e., washing and cleaning equipment, sweeping and mopping floors, wiping down surfaces and service areas, recycling cans and cardboard, cleaning trays and food pans.
• Keeps the cafeteria neat, clean, organized, and free of debris.
• Performs closing activities, i.e., returning food to stock, refrigerating or freezing foods, properly storing leftovers, putting away equipment and food pans, dismantling carts and salad bars.
• Operates various manual and electrically powered industrial food preparation equipment, i.e., steam kettles, stack and convection ovens, food slicers and choppers, mixers and grinders.
• Understands and actively participates in the Health and Safety responsibilities by following established FNS policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.
• Ensures that proper safety and sanitation is followed.
• Must be able to effectively use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the execution of job duties.
• Must be able to use Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) during the executive of job duties.
• Works collaboratively with other lunchroom staff to ensure daily food service responsibilities adhere to established schedules.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS.
• With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.
• May perform other School Lunchroom Assistant job duties as needed.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; supplemented by minimum five (5) years progressively knowledgeable and skilled school food service or hospitality industry experience, with ability to fulfill the physical requirements of the work.
• Florida State certified (or equivalent) food service training in Nutrition, Foundations, Baking, Quality Cooking, Equipment, highly preferred.
• Must have the ability to acquire ServSafe Certification accredited by the National Restaurant Association within 60 days of obtaining the position.
• Incumbent will be required to pass a course in Organization and Management, Culinary II, and Purchasing and Costing within six months of the course availability to maintain his/her lead position.

Qualifications

• Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information.
• Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
• Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
• Ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.

Skills

• Data Utilization
• Human Interaction
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization
• Verbal Aptitude
• Mathematical Aptitude
• Situational Reasoning

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.