Food Service Manager Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare nutritious meals for breakfast, lunch, supplemental snacks as well as other meals through Family Style Meal in accordance with the approved menu with standardized recipes and ensures that correct portions are served with appropriately sized tableware to each child as per age group.
• Responsible for cleaning and sanitizing all equipment, food storage areas and kitchen in accordance with state licensing codes, USDA guidelines and UMOS Sanitary program guidelines.
• Utilize working knowledge of appropriate practice for handling & storing food, weighing and measuring food, quantity cooking, and maintaining appropriate documentation.
• Implement UMOS system of equipment inventory and disposition at the beginning and end of the season and UMOS purchasing and inventory system for requisition of food and nonfood items, and ensure adequate supplies are maintained in the kitchen on an ongoing basis.
• Maintain food service records to include daily meal count, food usage reports, and substitution lists.
• Operate and maintain commercial food service equipment in accordance with the operating manual.
• Implement special diet changes to address children’s special dietary needs in accordance with physician or dietician’s orders and/or as delineated in a child’s IFSP/IEP.
• Purchase food and non-food items weekly for meals which may have some travel requirements.
• May need to purchase materials and food items needed for classroom nutritional activities and ensure proper documentation of activity when utilized as a supplemental snack.
• Participate in training for basic meal and special diets preparation in accordance with IFSP/IEP and in-house staffing goals in working with children with specific dietary concerns.
• Report suspected child abuse and neglect in accordance with state law and UMOS policies and procedures.
• Provide support or T/TA to other locations with some travel requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Food Service Manager Job Qualifications:

• Be at least 18 years of age or older at time of interview.
• GED and/or high school diploma, Preferred.
• Minimum of one-year food service experience.
• Be able to read and write.
• Knowledge of proper methods of storing foods, using basic food service equipment, and quantity cooking.
• Must have reliable car and/or valid driver’s license and adequate insurance.
• Ability to work flexible, irregular hours with some travel.

Additional Eligibility Requirements:

Employment with UMOS is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check prior to starting. In accordance with licensing regulation, must complete a physical exam and TB test showing absence of Tuberculosis within 30 days of employment or sooner as required by local/state regulation. Must complete approved Shaken Baby Training prior to working with children, Fire Extinguisher Training, Infant/Child CPR and First Aid within 30 days or sooner as required by local/state regulation. Position requires occasional pushing of heavy carts, handling containers of hot foods, bending, reaching, and standing long hours. Complete 4-hour course in kitchen sanitation, food handling and nutrition prior to assuming kitchen duties; renewed annually. Become certified as a ServSafe Food Manager within the third season. Employee must be able to lift 40 pounds.

Work Environment, Physical, and Sensory Demands:
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be considered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands:

• Employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, bend.
• Occasionally required to lift and /or move up to 30 lbs.
• Occasionally required to drive.
• Frequently exposed to moderate temperature generally encountered in a controlled temperature environment.

Tools & Equipment Used:

• Phones and computer systems.
• Fax machine, copy machine, calculator.
• First aid equipment, fire extinguisher, fire suppression system.
• Commercial stove, refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher.
• Blenders, food scales, sharp knives.
  
  • Usage varies by position.

UMOS is an equal opportunity Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Experience

• 1 year(s): one-year of actual kitchen work experience (not including home)

Education

• High School or better

Licenses & Certifications

• Infant Toddler CPR
• Serve Safe Certification
• Food Handler License

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)