School Food Service Training Manager

JOB TITLE:  School Food Service Training Manager

SUPERVISOR:  Food Service Director     

FLSA:  Non-Exempt 

CONTRACT DAYS: 220 days

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma.
• Minimum of three years of experience in school food service management or related field.
• Manager of a financially sound, efficient food service unit receiving successful reviews, inspections, and evaluations. 
• Strong computer, basic mathematical and bookkeeping skills. 
• Able to stand and walk most of the day, reach, bend, and safely move items.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Job Summary:  To assist the food service director and supervisor in monitoring and training food service employees so that high quality, nutritious, appealing food is prepared and served in a clean, sanitary, and pleasant environment.

Essential Duties:

• Occasionally make on-site visits to school food service units, monitoring production, merchandising, ordering, inventory control, food safety, and miscellaneous aspects of school food service operations.  Maintains documentation of visits and reports observations and plans training needs with the food service supervisor and director.
• Utilize the designated training kitchen along with experience, knowledge and the proper resources to train new and current staff while operating a fully functional kitchen.
• Operate an efficient, sanitary and financially sound food production operation, serving children health, nutritious meals.
• Assists with reviews of breakfast, lunch and after school snack programs.  
• Ensures compliance with all federal, state and local policies and regulations. 
• Revisits school food service units following DHEC inspections if needed.
• Substitutes in the absence of the School Food Service Manager or extended absence of the Assistant Manager. 
• Assist with developing menus and production records to distribute to all schools
• Monitors food supply, checking for supplier’s adherence to specifications and accurate nutritional label information.
• Assists with in-service and training of cafeteria personnel and training for new employees and substitutes as needed.
• Knows how all equipment is operated, cleaned, and serviced and provides training if needed.
• Keeps abreast of changes and upgrades in all food service software and trains other food service employees and instructs on day-to-day computer operations.
• Assists with planning and set-up of all meetings associated with food service.
• Promotes nutrition education and healthy eating habits.
• Maintains membership in and certification with the School Nutrition Association.
• Attends professional staff development meetings as needed and directed by the Food Service Director.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.   

Physical Requirements:

• The physical 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 may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Must exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal workplace levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal workplaces, outdoors and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be conducted in work-related community settings and/or occasionally performed on study trips away from the school.

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Last Updated:  03/2026