Bulletin School Nutrition Manager at Ross Elementary School

Job Description


BPS School Nutrition Manager

General Purpose: To provide each student and staff member in the school with food of high nutritional quality in an atmosphere of cleanliness, cheerfulness, and personal caring.

Supervision Received: Works under the Assistant Director and Director of School Nutrition Services for Braintree Public Schools.

Supervision Exercised: Supervise and instruct part-time, full-time staff, or temporary staff as assigned under the direction of the School Nutrition Coordinator and Director of School Nutrition Services. Perform evaluations of full-time and part-time school nutrition workers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The school nutrition manager is responsible for overseeing all aspects of meal production, service, sanitation, and safety. As such, the school nutrition manager prepares and assists in serving food according to standards related to sanitary conditions; uses all cooking equipment correctly; understands and follows standardized recipes, serving sizes, and ensures service is done professionally and efficiently.

• Must be Serv Safe Certified.
• Uses objective and subjective indicators to evaluate food quality.
• Follows standards to check the temperature of food and equipment.
• Follows meal pattern requirements and standardized recipes in preparing and serving student meals.
• Follows standards of safety in preparing, storing, and serving food.
• Follows the monthly menu and forecasts production accordingly.
• Utilizes menu planning software to access recipes, nutrition information, and electronic production records.
• Maintains personal hygiene and follows sanitation protocols, such as washing hands and changing gloves.
• Accepts payment and makes change.
• Operates a POS (point of service) system for students and adults.
• Accurately completes and maintains required records, including but not limited to production records, day-end reports, HACCP, and other logs.
• Complete monthly inventory.
• Attends job-related training classes, meetings, and workshops.
• Prepares daily bank deposit for pick up by Courier.
• Place all grocery/supply/cold production orders as directed by the School Nutrition Director or designee
• Accepts and follows standard operating procedures (SOP) for receiving all deliveries. Follows First In, First Out procedures. Post all SOP's for staff at stations.
• Checks and answers email daily.
• Communicates effectively and respectfully with all school nutrition personnel, school faculty, staff, students, and community members.
• Monitor and report equipment problems to the Director.
• Any other jobs/duties as assigned by the Director of School Nutrition or School Nutrition Coordinator.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, hear, and use hands to operate kitchen equipment. Employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.


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