School Nutrition Services Assistant — Deliver Healthy Meals

St. Joseph School District; Saint Joseph (MO); On-site; USD 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Joseph School District is hiring a Nutrition Services Assistant for the St. Joseph campus. This full-time, nine-month position supports food preparation, serving students and staff, and maintaining compliance with nutrition guidelines.

The role requires a high school diploma or GED, with 1–3 years of related experience preferred. You will monitor inventory, assist with menu planning, and ensure sanitary kitchen operations consistent with district standards.

Qualifications

• Required: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Preferred: 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Attend work in a regular, reliable and punctual manner.
• Arranges food and beverage items for the purpose of serving them to students and staff in an efficient manner.
• Assists in stocking food, condiments and supplies for the purpose of maintaining adequate quantities and security of items.
• Attends in unit meetings, in-service training, workshops, etc. for the purpose of gathering information required to perform job functions.
• Cleans utensils, equipment, and storage, food preparation and serving areas for the purpose of maintaining required sanitary conditions.
• Cooks food, prepared and/or from scratch, for the purpose of meeting mandated nutritional and projected meal requirements.
• Implements menu plans for the purpose of meeting students' mandated daily nutritional requirements.
• Inspects food items and/or supplies for the purpose of verifying quantity, quality and specifications of orders and/or complying with mandated health standards.
• Inventories food, condiments and supplies for the purpose of ensuring availability of items required for meeting projected menu requirements.
• Maintains equipment, storage, food preparation and serving areas in a sanitary condition for the purpose of complying with current health standards.
• Monitors kitchen and cafeteria areas for the purpose of ensuring a safe and sanitary working environment.
• Performs functions of other nutritional services positions, as requested by supervisor for the purpose of ensuring adequate staff coverage within site nutritional services operations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
• Prepares food and beverage items for the purpose of meeting mandated nutritional and projected meal requirements.
• Reports equipment malfunctions for the purpose of notifying supervisor of need for repair and/or replacement.
• Responds to inquiries of students, staff and the public for the purpose of providing information and/or direction regarding available food items and/or food service policies and practices.
• Serves one or more items of food for the purpose of meeting mandated nutritional requirements and/or requests of students and school personnel.
• Other assigned duties.

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

St. Joseph School District is hiring a Nutrition Services Assistant for the St. Joseph campus. This full-time, nine-month position supports food preparation, serving students and staff, and maintaining compliance with nutrition guidelines.

The role requires a high school diploma or GED, with 1–3 years of related experience preferred. You will monitor inventory, assist with menu planning, and ensure sanitary kitchen operations consistent with district standards.