Food Service Floater

Food Service Floater

Provide support for cafeteria and food service operations throughout the district. The Food Service Floater works cooperatively with cafeteria staff at various school buildings to assist with food preparation, serving, cashiering, cleaning, and overall cafeteria operations as assigned. This position may travel between buildings based on staffing and operational needs.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare food, serve food, and clean cafeteria equipment/areas as assigned by Cafeteria Manager or Lead
• Work cooperatively with all other food service employees
• Observe rules, cleanliness and adhere to appropriate personal hygiene
• Exercise care and safety in carrying out job duties
• Perform specific duties as assigned by supervisors
• Operate cash register or point of sale technology as needed
• Dispose of food in disposal unit and waste containers
• Operate dish washing machine and/or wash dishes by hand that ensures sterilizing of all dishes, silverware and utensils
• Clean up all spills
• Clean all counters and tables both in the kitchen and cafeteria
• Help prepare food, make sandwiches, cut pies, cakes, cheese, etc., peel raw vegetables, move all food to serving counters
• Move food and parcels to and from freezers, refrigerators and warming units
• Adhere to rigid sanitary standards in work and attire
• Assemble food for transfer to other school buildings
• Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., free and reduced lunch students
• Performs other related duties and assignments as assigned

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist Baker and Cook in other related duties as requested/assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned by Cafeteria Manager or Lead

About You:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Positive attitude for cooking and serving food
• Must be able to operate a cash register and point of sale technology, make change and be bondable
• Must be of good character and morally above reproach in contact with fellow workers, administrators, teachers and students
• Willing and capable of working with students and working one on one with students
• Neat, clean and well groomed as conducive to food handling and health standards
• TB test as necessary
• Valid Ohio driver's license
• FBI and BCI report
• Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

Equipment Operated:

• Convection oven/stove and other related food service equipment and materials
• Can opener, mixer, grinder, slicer, knives, microwave, food processor, dishwasher, fryers, steamers, electric kettle and grills
• Calculator and Point of Sale
• All cafeteria equipment as needed

About Our District:

The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools. As a product of our community-based strategic planning process completed in 2021, our district's mission is: As the heart of the community, Garfield Heights City Schools fully prepares students to pursue their dreams and give back as engaged citizens and future leaders. Our vision is: to become a premier educational institution, recognized throughout Ohio as fully preparing students to be leaders equipped with real-world skills to contribute to a global society. The Garfield Heights City School prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k through 12th-grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior. A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels. Students can expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular, and student leadership organizations in this District.

Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.