School Nutrition Assistant

Westside Atlanta Charter School Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Westside Atlanta Charter School Inc is seeking a part-time School Nutrition Assistant to support food production, meal service, and customer service in the school cafeteria. The role emphasizes sanitation, safety, and inventory handling to meet program guidelines.

Responsibilities include preparing meals, setting up serving lines, recording temperatures, and assisting with daily records under the Cafeteria Manager's guidance. A friendly, team-focused attitude is essential.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of volume feeding and routine kitchen duties.
• General cooking, food storage and cleaning procedures.
• Ability to follow instructions and work harmoniously with others.
• Experience in school cafeteria environment is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Prepares school breakfasts, lunches and snacks as directed.
• Sets up serving line and ensures correct temperatures and utensils.
• Records temperatures and maintains daily logs for safety.
• Maintains sanitation, safety and security in the serving area.
• Receives and stocks deliveries, and assists with inventory.
• Supports Cafeteria Manager in ensuring reimbursable meals.

Skills

Food production

Meal service

Sanitation

Customer service

Inventory handling

Equipment operation

Education

High school diploma

ServSafe certification

Experience in kitchen/cafeteria

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