Kitchen Lead

Kitchen Lead

Notice of Support Staff Posting Position: Kitchen Lead Posting Dates: Immediately Until Filled Reports To: Food Service Director Beginning: May 26, 2026 Hours: 40 hours per week Monday - Friday School Year/Full Time

Qualifications: Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred

Job Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Lead and support the kitchen staff, ensuring effective team collaboration and task completion in a timely, safe, and organized manner.
• Meal Preparation: Prepare, cook, and serve breakfast and lunch items according to menu plans and production schedules.
• Ordering & Inventory: Order all food and kitchen supplies for Macatawa Bay Middle School using GFS and other approved vendors. Monitor inventory and ensure proper food storage and rotation.
• Menu Planning/Lead Meetings: Collaborate with the Food Service Director, Assistant Director & other secondary leads to assist in planning balanced, appealing, and compliant school menus.
• Cash Handling & Financial Recording: Responsible for cashing out all kitchen cash registers daily and entering bank deposit records into district financial software.
• Compliance & Documentation: Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local food safety and nutrition regulations. Maintain accurate production records, temperature logs, and other required documentation.
• Additional Administrative Duties: Complete and review required reports and paperwork, including production sheets, inventory logs, and sanitation checklists.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles. Must be able to lift, push, pull and/or carry 20-50 pounds.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive Motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is subject to environmental conditions. The worker should provide consistent and in person reliable attendance.