Location:
High SchoolPRIMARY PURPOSE:
To ensure that high quality, nutritious meals are provided to students in a safe and sanitary environment. May assist in overseeing (in absence of CNS Team Lead) campus food service operations in accordance with department rules and regulations.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Leads others to set up, serve, and replenish food from counters and steam tables and breaking down stations at the end of the meal period.
• Ensure that all necessary production is taking place and quality is at prescribed levels.
• Must be well versed in sanitation standards and cash handling procedures.
• Follow and lead others to follow all school district, health department and Southwest Food Service Excellence regulatory rules and procedures.
• Ensure that all necessary paperwork is completed, along with ordering and inventorying food and supplies for kitchen operation.
• Assist with training all employees in food safety, physical safety, food preparation, cash handling, standards adherence and other CNS procedures to ensure the safety, well-being and work output of others.
• Assist with managing food and labor costs as it relates to the overall operation of the campus cafeteria.
• Ensure that all necessary paperwork is completed, along with ordering and inventorying food and supplies for kitchen operation.
• Receives stock; assists in maintaining an accurate inventory; puts up food and supplies on shelves and dates them; rotates stock as necessary; and identifies food and supplies to be ordered.
• Sets up serving line and serves meals to students and staff.
• Operate cash register during breakfast and lunch.
• Assist with kitchen duties between cashiering responsibilities when time permits.
• Removes soiled dishes; cleans up the serving line; mops, sweeps, and operates the dishwasher; assists with all other work necessary to restore the kitchen, eating, and storage areas to sanitary standards.
• Demonstrates regular and prompt attendance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In the absence of the Team Lead, may provide some oversight of food service workers in daily operation of cafeteria.

GENERAL QUALIFICATION GUIDELINES
Education/Certification/Experience:

• Graduation from an accredited high school or GED.
• Food Handler/s Card from Williamson County or Travis County Health Department.
• Valid Texas Class “C” Operator’s Driver’s License. Driving record must meet district standard for driving district vehicles.
• Two years experience in school food service and one year food service lead experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of food preparation and serving practices, kitchen safety and sanitation standards, and simple arithmetic.
• Skill in food preparation, planning, organization, communication, and operating kitchen equipment and utensils.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective, friendly working relationships with students, staff and the community; add and subtract two-digit numbers, calculate numbers, multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance; apply common sense understanding to carry out basic but detailed, written or oral instructions including being able to read menus and directions; deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations; organize.

Physical/Mental/Environmental Demands:

• Ability to understand, remember and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Work in kitchen environment where temperatures are sometimes high.
• May be exposed to cold and freezing temperatures.
• Must be able to work around equipment producing steam and hot temperatures.
• May be exposed to strong smells from food products.
• May be exposed to intermittent sounds of a loud nature.
• Move about on wet or slippery floors.
• Needs to be able to move kitchen and food supplies up to 50 pounds regularly.
• Needs to be able to move around kitchen and cafeteria to prepare food and assist in cafeteria management.
• Must be able to stand in stationary position for sustained periods of time.