26-27 SY Food Service Worker

Food Service Worker

Beginning Date: 26-27 School Year

Salary: Grade 15 step 1

Applicant must be highly qualified which requires one of the following and a complete application on file to be eligible for the position:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• High School or GED
• Minimum of 1 year experience working in food service.
• First Aid/CPR Certified or willing to obtain within the first 30 days of employment is required.
• Food Handlers Card or willing to obtain it within 30 days.
• Civil Rights Certified or willing to obtain within the first 30 days of employment is required.
• Valid Driver's License for operation of a school vehicle.
• Fingerprint Background Check prior to employment
• Bilingual ability (Spanish/English) is preferred

Job Summary:

To prepare, serve and provide balanced, healthy, nutritional breakfast, lunch, supper, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable, After School Snack meals to students enrolled at all district school sites and prepare and serve summer meals to the community during off season months/breaks. Ensuring compliance with federal and state regulation from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Child Nutrition Program, New Mexico Public Education Department Student Success and Wellness Bureau, Southwest Training Systems, and New Mexico Environment Department.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain effective working relationship with team members, students, staff.
• Follow NMED and USDA HACCP Dress Code.
• Prepare/Serve breakfast, lunch, supper, FFVP, ASSP and summer meals.
• Follow USDA school menus.
• Prepare meals for students with special dietary needs per special menu.
• Load and unload satellite truck summer months.
• Fuel delivery truck summer months.
• Unload and put away food deliveries from vendors following FIFO regulations.
• Clean steamtable and surrendering kitchen equipment.
• Perform one or several food service operations including but not limited too general kitchen help, cooking, cafeteria serving, assisting in food preparation, cleaning, and other related duties per the rotation schedule.
• Maintain personal hygiene and hygienic serving conditions in accordance with the New Mexico environmental code.
• Operates a variety of food preparation and service equipment. Sets up & breaks down steam tables, serving lines after meal servers.
• Performs daily cleaning of all kitchen equipment to ensure cleanliness and sanitary conditions are met.
• Maintains order and safety in the kitchen and serving line area.
• Wash dishes and trays, general and deep cleaning, sweep, and mop food service areas.
• Complete and maintains records such as temperature logs, student meal counts, and inventory.
• Oversees students assisting with serving food on the service line.
• Do daily laundry.
• Operate food delivery vehicles during school year and summer lunch program; may need to pick up and load the truck for deliveries.
• Comply with USDA, PED, NMED and district regulations and policies.
• Comply with USDA HACCP and E-learning training.
• Performs other duties as assigned and which are deemed necessary or desirable by the program required.

Knowledge Of:

• Safe driving principles and practices
• District geography and locations of food serving sites.
• Principles and procedures related to school food safety.
• Knowledgeable of food service equipment use.
• Knowledgeable of basics food service operations.
• Department and district operations and policies.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Department satellite delivery schedule.

Ability To:

• Safely drive and operate a food delivery vehicle.
• Work in a friendly manner and establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, team members and the community.
• Perform jobs and communicate in a noisy environment.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to read and complete USDA food service documents.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to students, staff, team members and the community.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

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, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.
• The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must have the ability to regularly lift and/or move a minimum of 25 pounds up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in both inside and outside environmental conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

The Deming Public School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, sex, marital status or handicap in compliance with federal and state laws.

Revised May 2024