Substitute School Food Service 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

Substitute School Food Service Manager

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This job is also posted in St. Landry Parish School Board

Job Details

Job ID: 5945477
Application Deadline: Posted until filled
Posted: Sep 30, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

Job Goal:

To provide students with appetizing, nutritional meals in a sanitary pleasant environment that promotes positive learning.

Qualifications (minimum education, licensure, skills, and/or experience):

• 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

Essential Duties and 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.

Physical Demands:

The School Food Service Manager must have the ability to lift and carry cans, bowls, pans, and cases up to

25 pounds; ability to lift cans, bowls, pans, and cases up to 50 pounds with assistance; ability to stand or walk

up to 7 hours per day; ability to push or pull equipment such as food carts and mop buckets; ability to reach

above head when placing pans in shelves of ovens, refrigerators and storerooms; ability to mop and sweep;

ability to bend and squat when lifting; ability to provide transportation to workshops and meeting sites. This position is exposed to environmental and temperature extremes, chemicals, and odor.

Terms of Employment: 190 days per year 7.5 hours per day (Salary in accordance with current salary schedule)

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel (Bulletin 130).

Position Type: Full-Time

Job Requirements

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required

Contact Information

• Lucretia Hertzock , Director of Child Nutrition
• Central Office
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]