School Nutrition Services Manager

St. Landry Parish School Board; Opelousas (LA); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Landry Parish School Board is hiring a Substitute School Food Service Manager in Opelousas, LA. This role focuses on preparing nutritious meals, managing daily cafeteria operations, and ensuring sanitary, safe environments for students and staff.

Responsibilities include budgeting, inventory, staff training, and maintaining reports while complying with state standards. Immediate start date; salary follows current schedule for School Food Service roles.

Qualifications

• Ability to complete written reports and recommendations.
• Effective communication and human relations skills. Knowledge of the needs of a diverse work force.
• Ability to work simple math problems.
• Skills in duties of technicians as demonstrated by completion of technician course.
• Ability to supervise, train and evaluate cafeteria employees.
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Must meet State Certification Requirements
• Satisfactory Completion of Red Cross First Aid Course including CPR within 60 days of employment

Responsibilities

• Maintains food budget.
• Determines when equipment needs repair.
• Determines small equipment needs.
• Schedules regular equipment maintenance.
• Plans menu item substitution (with permission of Supervisor of Child Nutrition.)
• Promotes good nutrition for students, teachers, and others.
• Performs orientation and on-the-job training.
• Completes job performance evaluations.
• Gives feedback to others on performance and encourages the use of feedback.
• Increases or reduces standardized recipes.
• Determines ingredient substitution when necessary.
• Plans advance preparation.
• Develops production, work and cleaning schedules.
• Plans serving counter arrangement.
• Check food quality during preparation.
• Utilizes food-merchandising techniques.
• Receives and responds to complaints about food and service.
• Promotes positive feelings about School Food Service in students, faculty, administrators, and others.
• Estimates and orders food and supplies.
• Receives food deliveries.
• Does physical inventories of food and equipment and maintains inventory reports.
• Determines amounts of food items to be issued and monitors the issuance of these amount from storeroom.
• Reports information about personnel.
• Maintains reports documenting foods used and participation (SFS-6, SFS-7, SFS-7a, and other reports) as required.
• Handles money; makes deposits daily.
• Protects food, supplies, equipment, and money from theft.
• Practices safe working habits; corrects and/or reports and follows through on unsafe working conditions; enforces safety rules.
• Performs basic first aid; maintains first aid kit.
• Monitors sanitation techniques; corrects unacceptable personal hygiene and sanitation practices.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Written reports

Communication

Diversity awareness

Math skills

Technician duties

Supervise/train staff

First aid CPR

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

State Certification requirements

Red Cross First Aid/CPR within 60 days

Job description

St. Landry Parish School Board is hiring a Substitute School Food Service Manager in Opelousas, LA. This role focuses on preparing nutritious meals, managing daily cafeteria operations, and ensuring sanitary, safe environments for students and staff.

Responsibilities include budgeting, inventory, staff training, and maintaining reports while complying with state standards. Immediate start date; salary follows current schedule for School Food Service roles.