Nutrition Services Culinary Associate

Nutrition Services Culinary Associate

Operating under the general supervision of the school's Culinary Manager, employee is a member of the school's culinary team working to create and serve scratch produced meals to the District's students. Performs highly technical scratch food production duties utilizing all components of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and Nourish Colorado Scratch School Meal Initiative. Employee is charged with providing well-balanced nutritious meals per approved USDA & Live Well recipe & production records. Serving high risk populations, school food service activities require the highest degree of customer service skills, production & food safety practices.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Using highly technical scratch meal production techniques, employees provide well-balanced, nutritious, and tasteful meals to students.
• Serving prepared meals as part of the school's culinary team in a friendly, tactful, and professional manner.
• Ensuring the health and safety of students and staff is paramount as scratch ingredients are used at each site, including raw proteins and produce products.
• Focusing on the highest hygiene and sanitation standards, employee performs cleaning tasks including, but not limited to; dishwashing, cleaning and sanitizing all food contact surfaces used for preparation, cleaning all non-food contact surfaces such as floors, shelving, walls, windows, kitchen restroom facilities, laundering of linens, and towels etc.
• Rotating and cross-training in all scratch meal production and serve stations within the kitchen employee is able to easily adjust and change assigned tasks to ensure food quality, safety, and customer service standards are met.
• Assisting the Culinary Manager, employee uses First-In, First-Out (FIFO) and the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) guidelines to rotate stock and manage inventory.

Education and related work experience: High school diploma or equivalent required (Acceptable education will be at the sole discretion of the District) D51 student 16 or> working towards diploma Position requires conversational English language skills.

Licenses, registrations or certifications: Criminal background check required for hire; Current Mesa County Food Handlers Card required within 90 days of hire A variety of lift tests, including carrying liquids, of up to 50# is required at time of hire with recertification every three years; Attend and successfully complete all staff development training as required by law or as directed by the Director of Nutrition Services.