Kitchen Lunch Manager

Oklahoma Bible Academy; Enid (OK); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Oklahoma Bible Academy is seeking a Cook-Manager to supervise the school lunch program across facilities, ensuring nutritious meals for students and staff, maintaining high sanitation standards, and providing training and supervision for kitchen staff.

The role includes daily meal preparation, inventory control, ordering and paperwork, cash handling, and coordinating with parents, faculty, and administration to ensure quality service and open communication.

Responsibilities

• Supervises daily food preparation for school. Provides leadership and direction for staff. Provides orientation and training to new employees. Coordinates, schedules, and assigns work for food service staff. Checks quality of work by monitoring employee actions.
• Evaluates and conducts employee performance appraisals. Resolves staff grievances if necessary. Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations. Assists in daily food preparation for school. Cooks, prepares individual portions, and performs other food preparation duties.
• Prepares daily, monthly, and yearly food service reports and other paperwork as required.
• Prepares, receives, and verifies food/supply orders according to schedule. Submits orders through established ordering procedures. Performs monthly inventory of food/supplies.
• Serves prepared food to students.
• Cleans equipment used, including utensils, dishes, mixers, and machines. Performs general cleaning duties in kitchen.
• Operates a cash register (or equivalent), receives payments of cash, checks and charges from customers or employees for goods or services.
• Works with student/parents/faculty employees to ensure satisfaction in such areas as quality, service, and problem resolution, refer to Food Service Manager if necessary.
• Able to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.

Job description

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

Manages a school lunch program in a large school or several small schools serving type A and a la carte meals, to children and adults; does related work as required. DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS: This is an important supervisory position involving responsibility for efficiently and economically providing nutritious lunches for school children. Depending upon the size of the school lunch program, work may be performed under the direction of a school lunch director or a school district administrator. Direct or general supervision is exercised over the work of one or more Cook-Managers or Cooks, and other school lunch personnel.

Essential Functions:

1. Supervises daily food preparation for school. Provides leadership and direction for staff. Provides orientation and training to new employees. Coordinates, schedules, and assigns work for food service staff. Checks quality of work by monitoring employee actions. Evaluates and conducts employee performance appraisals. Resolves staff grievances if necessary. Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations. Assists in daily food preparation for school. Cooks, prepares individual portions, and performs other food preparation duties.
2. Prepares daily, monthly, and yearly food service reports and other paperwork as required.
3. Prepares, receives, and verifies food/supply orders according to schedule. Submits orders through established ordering procedures. Performs monthly inventory of food/supplies.
4. Serves perpared food to students.
5. Cleans equipment used, including utensils, dishes, mixers, and machines. Performs general cleaning duties in kitchen.
6. Operates a cash register (or equivalent), receives payments of cash, checks and charges from customers or employees for goods or services.
7. Works with student/parents/faculty employees to ensure satisfaction in such areas as quality, service, and problem resolution, refer to Food Service Manager if necessary.
8. Able to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.