School Kitchen Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits :

• Bonus based on performance
• Competitive salary
• Employee discounts
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing

Education and Experience :

At least 18 years of age (25 if responsible for driving a bus)

Hold a high school diploma or equivalent

Knowledge and understanding of all current State and Local regulations.

Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities :

Menu is posted and followed, with appropriate substitutions made when necessary. Substitutions are documented properly.

Meals and snacks are prepared and served in a timely manner.

Effective use of storage units, and food is labeled, organized, rotated.

Food and paper items are inventoried weekly and items ordered appropriately and in accordance with budget guidelines.

Excess food items are used by working them into the menu, thus providing effective cost control.

Uses problem solving skills to increase productivity, maintain working relationships, and maintain cost control.

Safe, hazard free, uses good judgment.

Consistently clean and maintained on ongoing basis, counters, shelves, floors, appliances.

Follows Childrens Lighthouse Kitchen Manager guidelines, systems, and requirements.

Uses proper sanitation procedures as required by local and state agencies.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Must be safety conscious at all times of self and others. Will frequently lift as in lifting, carrying, shelving groceries, and lifting / carrying infants and children.

Required to stand and / or walk up to 90% of the day, as needed.

Must be able to stoop, bend and sit to prepare food, maintain kitchen, and assist in classrooms if allowed / needed.

Able to physically and mentally interact and react to children on the playground and / or in the classroom and attend to their needs.

General Areas

Completes and submits all records as required, including time sheets, menu postings, inventory, purchases, incident reports and any other required documentation.

Helps to maintain ratios in classrooms by filling in for absent staff members when necessary, in the early morning and naptime hours as necessary, and assist with bus runs.

Supports all Childrens Lighthouse policies and procedures as states in manuals, handbooks, and official memos.

Has energy level to do the job

Good role model including attendance, dress code, attitude

Does not participate in gossip

Open to change - Flexible and able to adapt

Participates in extra-curricular activities of school

Attends staff meetings

Able and willing to accept direction, feedback, and evaluation

Uses good judgment in all areas.

Walkthrough counts and other management support duties as assigned.

Completes additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.