School Nutrition Assistant

GetHired, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

GetHired, Inc. is seeking a School Nutrition Assistant (Part Time) to support the school cafeteria. You will help with food production, meal service, and sanitation under the Cafeteria Manager, ensuring meals meet quality standards and safety rules.

This role emphasizes customer service to students and staff, stock and inventory handling, and strict adherence to local health regulations. Previous kitchen experience and ServSafe certification are preferred.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of volume feeding and routine kitchen duties.
• Knowledge of general cooking, food storage and cleaning procedures.
• Ability to perform assigned tasks and follow instructions.
• Ability to work harmoniously with fellow employees and provide friendly service.
• Willingness to learn cooking and other food service duties.

Responsibilities

• Prepares school breakfasts, lunches and snacks as applicable.
• Sets up serving line with items in proper order and temperature.
• Uses serving utensils correctly to ensure proper portions.
• Provides outstanding customer service to students, parents, staff and visitors.
• Monitors temperatures of freezers and refrigerators and records logs daily.
• Assists Cafeteria Manager in receiving deliveries and maintaining inventory.
• Ensures compliance with state and local health regulations and program guidelines.

Skills

Volume feeding

Cooking basics

Food safety

Customer service

Teamwork

Follow instructions

Learning on the job

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

School Nutrition Assistant Part Time

Reports to:Cafeteria Manager

GENERAL FUNCTION& SCOPE

TheSchool Nutrition Assistant performs a variety of job functions essential to thesuccessful operation of the school cafeteria.Job functions include food production; meal service; food acceptability;customer service; sanitation, safety and security; receiving, storage andinventory; program regulations and accountability; equipment use and care; professionalexcellence. The School Nutrition Program provides an environment that supportshealthy food habits while maintaining program integrity and customersatisfaction.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES

Food Production

• Prepares school breakfasts (where applicable), lunches andafternoon snacks
• Withdraws and prepares appropriate amounts of food frominventory each day, as directed by the Cafeteria Manager
• Adheres to standardized recipes

Meal Service

• Sets up the serving line each day, ensuring:
  • all items on the menu are placed on the servingline in the proper order and at the proper temperature
  • correct serving utensils are in place
  • condiments and cutlery are provided
• Uses serving utensils correctly to ensurecorrect portions are served
• Serves students quickly and efficiently toadhere to the school’s meal schedules

Food Acceptability

• Prepares and serves meals of the highest qualitythat encourages student consumption

Customer Service

• Provides outstanding customer service tostudents, parents, staff, visitors and fellow employees

Sanitation, Safety & Security

• Follows all local health department requirementsfor food safety
• Monitors the temperatures of freezers,refrigerators and milk coolers daily, recording temperatures on the appropriatelog, and notifies Cafeteria Manager if temperatures are above 10˚F (freezer) or 41˚F (refrigerator/cooler)
• Takes and records temperature of foods to ensurethat foods are cooked to the proper internal temperature, chilled to theappropriate temperature, and placed on the serving line at the appropriatetemperature
• Performs general cleaning tasks and followscleaning schedule
• Follows the wash, rinse and sanitize proceduresfor ware washing
• Assists the Cafeteria Manager in ensuring the security of all food and supplies.

Receiving, Storage & Inventory

• Assists the Cafeteria Manager in receiving allincoming food and supply deliveries
• Stocks all incoming deliveries and adheres toestablished food storage procedures
• Assists the Cafeteria Manager in taking anaccurate monthly inventory of all purchased food and supplies

Program Regulations & Accountability

• Maintains integrity and accountability of theSchool Nutrition Program through compliance with all federal, state and localregulations
• Ensures students receive all required mealcomponents and that all meals served meet the reimbursable meal requirements
• Serves students all required meal components,ensuring students are served reimbursable mealsli>
• Assists Cafeteria Manager in maintaining allrecords and reports to meet local, state and USDA requirements, including dailyproduction records, temperature logs, etc.
• Follows all school policies and procedures
• Adheres to work schedule and scheduled hours
• Complies with school mission and vision

Equipment Use and Care

• Operates commercial kitchen equipment (convection oven, tiltskillet, steamer, multi-compartment sink, etc.) in a safe manner
• Follows policies for the use and care of all equipment

Professional Excellence

• Communicates effectively with supervisor,customers and other employees

Other

• Performs other duties as assigned by theCafeteria Manager

MINIMUMQUALIFICATIONS

• Some knowledge of volume feeding and routinekitchen duties involving food preparation and service
• Knowledge of general cooking, food storage andcleaning procedures
• Ability to perform assigned tasks
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to work harmoniously with fellowemployees
• Ability to provide friendly service to studentsand others
• Ability to learn cooking and other food serviceduties in a reasonable period of time

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Experience in kitchen, cafeteria or restaurantfoodservice (school cafeteria experience preferred)
• ServSafe certified preferred