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 Children’s 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 Children’s 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.