Site Manager - Senior Meals Program

Site Manager Senior Meals Program

The Site Manager Senior Meals Program oversees the daily operations of a senior nutrition site, ensuring the effective delivery of both congregate and home-delivered meal services. This position is responsible for supervising staff, coordinating meal distribution, maintaining compliance with state, federal, and local health regulations, and ensuring that participants receive nutritious meals in a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Supervise the operation of a nutrition site for individuals as a congregate meal site as well as home delivered meals.
• Conduct assessments and reassessments of program participants.
• Maintain the essential records and files.
• Complete and submit monthly reports and other reports as required.
• Supervise and train staff to ensure compliance with state & federal requirements and guidelines.
• Ensure food service operations are conducted according to state & local health department standards.
• Receive and distribute prepared meals and maintain cleanliness of the cafeteria and luncheon area.
• Supervise, and may assist with, manual work involved in cafeteria area, including but not limited to wait on tables and deliver/remove eating trays, cleaning caterer serving trays and utensils, coffee pots, opening cartons, lifting food items, and removing garbage.
• Accurately record food temperatures and follow food sanitation and safety code policy with receiving, holding, serving, packing out, extra meals, dishwashing procedures and food portion sizes.
• Preparation of calculation of daily meal counts, as well as inventory items.
• Ensure that person's handling/preparing/serving food in the program practice hygienic food handling techniques.
• May assist with and/or deliver meals to home bound participants.
• Maybe assigned to sites based on the needs of the program and can be relocated when the needs of the program dictate a change.
• Perform all other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

• Will be required to learn and utilize various computer programs: State database, Word, Excel for example.
• Must be organized and self-motivated.
• Ability to carry out recurring assignments independently and in accord with established procedures and policies.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective work relations with supervisors, co-workers and public.
• Ability to remember oral and written instructions and directions and to learn quickly from demonstrations.
• Ability to train and supervise the performance of staff; assigns suitable assignments and instruction to staff.
• Ability to see desired objectives are achieved.
• Ability to establish and maintain good employee and participant relationships.
• Ability to write descriptive reports using proper style and format.
• Work to promote a healthy work environment.

Requirements include:

• Part-Time position, 8:30am-2:30pm (Monday-Friday).
• One (1) year of supervisory experience in a cafeteria, food service or dining room facility.
• Must possess a valid NJ driver's license.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Required to pass and maintain food sanitation tests (i.e ServSafe).

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is:

• $52,000 - $57,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Middlesex County, NJ - County Government