Food Service Assistant

Food Service Assistant

School: Food Service Department - School Year: 2026-27

Reports to: Director of Food Services - Bargaining Unit: CIA

Paid Days/Year: 181 - Hours Per Day: 4.75

Wage Range (Salaries are stated as an estimate only. Actual salary is confirmed only upon hire/job offer.)$ 20.77 - 25.12 per hour

Note: Employees are paid the last working day of each month.

About Chimacum Schools

Surrounded by farms and forests at the base of the Olympic Mountains and the edge of the Salish Sea, Chimacum Schools are the heart center of a proud and vibrant community in East Jefferson County. We offer a deeply rewarding work environment with dedicated colleagues, enriching professional development, community partnerships, and regionally competitive compensation. Chimacum provides PreK-12 students engaging place-based and hands-on learning, locally produced school lunches, and an invitation to educational innovation and support, among other amazing opportunities!

Primary Responsibility: Performs a variety of duties in handling prepping, preparing, cooking and serving food. Maintain sanitary conditions of dining and kitchen facilities. This position includes loading and unloading food delivery from food service venders. This position also includes loading and unloading food service supplies into food service van.

Additional duties: Food Service Assistant serves as the food service cashier. Cashiering, handling of food service monies during meal service, counting collected monies and turning monies in daily to the head cashier.

Responsibilities

• Read menu for the day, prepare assign food items needed for meals.
• Complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Assist other employees in basic food preparation tasks as needed.
• Set-up and prepare serving areas.
• Maintain all food items at their proper temperature.
• Serve school nutrition program meals for students and staff.
• Ensure that customers are able to expeditiously move through meal lines.
• Maintain a clean and appealing service line and area.
• Clean and sanitize equipment and utensils after service.
• Replace all equipment and utensils to their storage area.
• Collect and operate a point of service cashiering station through a student data base system.
• Maintain student confidentiality associated with the free and reduced meal program.
• Count and balance cash drawer.
• Specific duties assigned by the Food Service Supervisor.

Duties

• Organize time to assure food is ready to serve students at set service times.
• Set-up service areas for ease in serving students.
• Monitor and maintain proper portion controls.
• Maintain food and equipment to meet state and local health department requirements.
• Operate and maintain commercial dishwashing equipment.
• Serve complete nutritious meals to students and staff.
• Clean and prepare equipment for the next service.
• Restock supplies.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in food preparation to include cooking and baking which included acquiring and applying nutritional knowledge.
• Ability to communicate and maintain good working relations with other employees, students, community representatives, and school staff.
• Initiative and ability to work with minimal direction; sound judgment and decision-making capabilities are essential.
• Ability to make mathematical calculations necessary for effective food preparation.
• Ability to read and comprehend in English recipes and directions for equipment usage.
• Valid state food handler's certification.
• Valid Washington State Driver's License.

Desired Qualifications

• Demonstrated basic performance skills in quantity food service.
• Have basic knowledge of child nutrition.
• Experience in a school environment involves preparation and service of a large and varied number of meals and food products in a condensed period of time.
• Possess the physical capabilities to perform the job, including lifting supplies in excess of 40 pounds and maneuvering equipment loaded with food or supplies.
• Neat in appearance and appropriately attired at all times.
• Safety and sanitation implementation and adherence.
• First Aid training.
• Computer literacy including Word, Excel

Supervision and Controls over the Work

The employee works with a high level of independence and professional discretion under the general supervision of a designated school administrator. The employee's work is governed, controlled, and evaluated by acceptable professional practice, school and district policies and regulations, provisions of Washington Administrative Code and Revised Code of Washington, direction of the supervisor, and performance standards and expectations as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement.

Physical and Environmental Requirements of the Position

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, move about, hear and speak, and be visually observant of classroom behavior and learning activities.

The employee may occasionally lift, restrain, or move up to 100 pounds – most typically when required to intervene in student safety issues.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, or consistent with the subject being taught, but can be abnormally loud on occasion.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally work in outside weather conditions and be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, temperature fluctuations, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals commonly used in instruction and/or cleaning. It may be expected that the individual could be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials during the course of their duties. The employee may be exposed to infectious disease as carried by students.

The employee may be required to travel on school owned or leased vehicles while supervising and assisting students.

Application Material Required

Go to to submit an online application. Complete online applications include: letter of interest, completed district application, resume, and three (3) letters of recommendation.

Questions regarding completion of application? Please contact:

Debra Swanson, Executive Assistant

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