Food Service Worker

Sylvania; Cañon City (CO); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Sylvania, in Cañon City, seeks a full-time Food Service role for the 2025-2026 school year, responsible for preparing and serving meals to children and adults. The ideal candidate should have a high school diploma, previous food service experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work in a team environment. This position offers competitive pay, health insurance, and other benefits including paid time off and professional development.

Benefits

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Longevity incentives

Professional development incentives

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is mandatory.
• Experience in a similar role is preferred.
• Current/Valid Colorado Driver’s License is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the daily preparation and serving of school meals.
• Maintain sanitation practices in food preparation and serving areas.
• Organize equipment and workstations.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Customer Service

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Kitchen equipment

Point of sales machines

Job description

Start Date: August 11^th for the 2025-2026 School Year

Position Type: Full-time, 162 days per year
Location: District-wide

Salary: Pay for this position is determined by the Food Service Servers Salary Schedule based on years of experience and education. $15.92-$17.19 per hour/Minimum Pay.

Benefits Include: Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, PERA retirement, paid time off, as well as other optional benefit elections. Preschool options available for employees with children. Longevity and professional development incentives.

Purpose of the Job.
Responsible for providing assistance in the preparation and serving of breakfast, lunch and other food to children and adults in a courteous customer service oriented manner. Organize and set up equipment and workstations. Perform duties following health, food service, government and other regulations. Demonstrate proper equipment operation skills.

Minimum Requirements:

Education: High school diploma or equivalent

Certification: None required

Experience: Similar job-related experience

Licenses/Certificates: Current/Valid Colorado Driver’s License

Other Criteria:

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a school atmosphere with staff members, students and the public.
• Ability to effectively, read, write, speak and listen to comply with directions and instructions to complete tasks and establish priorities.
• Physical strength and coordination to operate kitchen equipment and to stand and walk for up to 8 hours per day.
• Ability to maintain control under pressure.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Possess adequate vision and hearing.
• Ability to perform light lifting and moving of product (up to 50lbs).
• Ability to work cooperatively in a school atmosphere with staff members, students and the public.
• Integrity, trust and work ethic to be able to work with little supervision.
• Must pass pre-employment physical.
• Proven effective people skills.
• Excellent face-to-face and telephone communication skills.
• Proficiency in grammar, spelling and proofreading.
• Good organizational and time management skills, ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and flexibility.
• A team player who can also work independently.
• Problem solving skills.
• A patient and positive attitude, with a neat, clean appearance, friendly demeanor, a desire to serve.
• The integrity to keep sensitive information confidential.
• Competent understanding of technology to perform the job.
• Implements appropriate physical and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of district data.
• Maintains good security practices with passwords and accounts to the various district systems and applications.
• Reports actual or suspected breaches in the confidentiality, integrity or availability of district data to appropriate district personnel.
• Follows all board policies for acceptable use of district technology.
• Model the District's Mission and Belief Statements.

Essential Duties of the Job: (Minimum skills and knowledge required to perform the job. Insert the equipment the employee is required to use to perform the job.)

• Assists with the daily preparation of school meals, including hot and cold food, setting up and all other functions and phases associated with food preparation.
• Maintains daily sanitation practices in the food preparation and serving areas and the dish room.
• Assists with the serving of daily meals as assigned.
• Monitors the areas for needed refill and changes/resupply.
• Present a professional appearance personally and in the work area.
• Demonstrate reliability in all work situations.
• Promote and maintain positive working relationships with peers, students, parents and the public.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge, Equipment & Other:

Strong language and communication skills. Basic knowledge of kitchen, food preparation equipment and systems including, but not limited to, steamers, ovens, mixers, warmers, serving lines and other commercial equipment. Ability to work in person

Computer hardware and software, technology related to the assignment, typical point of sales machines and electronic recordkeeping.

Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A

Requirements for Essential Functions of the Job: (The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; feel or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds from floor to waist, waist to overhead, waist to floor and overhead to floor. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to work in a school setting. Travel from site to site may occasionally; be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; indoor kitchen conditions. The noise level in the work environment ranges is generally quiet with occasional increase when working events or with equipment. Must be able to work in person.

Mental Functions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to analyze and compute. Frequently required to compare, communicate, coordinate, and use interpersonal skills to provide service.

This description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making compensation decisions. This job description is subject to change in accordance with the needs of the District.

TO APPLY:

A district application must be completed online at: https://jobs.redroverk12.com/org/canoncityschools

Anticipated Timeline for Hiring: Open until filled
Screening of Applications: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Applications must be complete and submitted to be considered

Inquiries may be made to Jamie Davis, Director of Human Resources, 101 North 14th Street, Cañon City, CO, 81212, 719-276-5700.

Nondiscrimination/Equal Opportunity

In compliance with Titles VI; VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and Colorado law, School District Fremont RE-1 does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, disability or need for special education services in admissions, access to, treatment, or employment in educational programs or activities which it operates.

School District Fremont RE-1 has established complaint procedures for students, parents, employees, and members of the public. Complaints may be filed verbally, in writing, or anonymously. If you wish to file a complaint using the district complaint form, please submit it to: Ms. Jamie Davis, Director of Human Resources, Title IX, Section 504, and Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator, 101 North 14th Street, Cañon City, Colorado 81212 – Telephone: [phone], Email:[e-mail].