School Kitchen Manager

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.