Cafeteria Coordinator, SY 26/27

Essex Westford School District (EWSD) has an opportunity for a full-time School Cafeteria Coordinator at the Summit Street School location beginning with the 2026-2027 school year. 

The Cafeteria Coordinator, under the supervision of the Assistant Director of Child Nutrition and in collaboration with the Lead Cafeteria Coordinator, oversees the daily breakfast and lunch program at the school site level. This position is responsible for all aspects of meal service operations, including food ordering, preparation, cooking, serving, meal counting, sanitation, and cleanup. Responsibilities also include delivering and serving meals for ARC and ACE programs while ensuring compliance with food safety standards and efficient daily operations.  

Primary job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Supervises, coordinates, and evaluates the work of all Cafeteria workers in preparing and serving food and cleaning facilities and equipment in a production kitchen.
• Plans and directs daily production with a team of two to three Cafeteria workers to ensure maximum efficiency, accuracy, and quality in meal programs.
• Assist with or perform a wide range of cooking tasks associated with the preparation of student meals.
• Ensures meals served comply with the USDA’s meal pattern for the National School Breakfast and Lunch program.
• Understands and is familiar with the school’s health safety alerts for each child requiring a meal modification. Ensures allergen-free meals or components are not cross-contaminated.
• Compliance with State Sanitation Guideline requirements. All employees shall keep clean and wear clean outer garments at all times while engaged in handling food, drink, utensils, or equipment.  The use of caps, hair nets, or other hair restraints is required for all food handlers.

For additional information, CLICK HERE for a copy of the full job description.

Our District vision is: "Growing hearts and minds, for a better today and tomorrow: every day, every way, every one."

EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and are expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. Candidates with experience living or working in another country, the ability to speak more than one language, and/or Peace Corps experience are encouraged to apply.

EWSD conducts thorough screenings of all applicants being recommended for hire, which may include contacting references not listed on your application. Selected individuals are subject to criminal records background checks and child and adult abuse registry checks. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon acceptable results of these checks at the sole discretion of the Superintendent or his/her designee. Please click HERE for additional background check information.

Salary : $24 - $25