Assistant Food Service Director — School Cafeteria Ops Leader

Genuine Foods; Saint Leo (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonus Potential

Paid Time Off

Medical & Dental benefits

Ground floor opportunity

Job summary

Genuine Foods in Saint Leo, FL seeks an Assistant Food Service Director to lead operations, ensure quality control, and support daily cafeteria activities across multiple school sites.

The successful candidate will supervise staff, coordinate service, and maintain strong relationships with students and educators while traveling between 3-4 sites. A passion for nutritious, scratch-made meals and community impact is essential.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience as an assisting supervisor in a mid/high volume food service facility or restaurant.
• Must be able to travel with ease between a total of 3-4 school sites.
• Attention to detail and excellent communication, organization and interpersonal skills.
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic and level headedness.
• Able to climb stairs and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Self-motivated, able to lead and be a proactive problem solver.
• Committed to Genuine Foods’ mission to use food to help students enhance their minds, bodies and happiness.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Food Service Director with conducting daily site visits to observe school food service operations including food preparation, kitchen facilities, student engagement, and customer service
• Assisting the Food Service Director with managing the food service leads at their assigned schools as direct reports, this includes weekly check-ins.
• Enhances culinary operations at all sites
• Fills in for food servers in the event of absence
• Proactively communicates to the management team good performance by food servers and performance that needs improvement
• Immediately informs management team to any culinary or operations issues that need their attention
• Proactively collaborates with food servers and the culinary and operations team leads to develop creative, school-specific solutions to ensure we can deliver the best possible service
• Trains school-based staff on standardized policies and procedures (e.g., clocking-in/out, using project management tools to document meals, practicing FIFO, accurately completing production records, taking physical inventory weekly, ensuring monthly menus are posted etc.)
• Other duties as assigned to ensure Genuine standards are being met

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organization

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Proactive problem solver

Self-motivated

Job description

Genuine Foods in Saint Leo, FL seeks an Assistant Food Service Director to lead operations, ensure quality control, and support daily cafeteria activities across multiple school sites.

The successful candidate will supervise staff, coordinate service, and maintain strong relationships with students and educators while traveling between 3-4 sites. A passion for nutritious, scratch-made meals and community impact is essential.