School Nutrition Worker

Job Overview

The School Nutrition Worker prepares and distributes food items for consumption by students and school personnel, ensures compliance with reporting requirements, and maintains facilities in a sanitary condition.

Roles and Responsibilities

The following information is intended to describe the overall nature and scope of the work being performed. This is not a comprehensive listing of all responsibilities or tasks; work may differ and other work may be assigned when deemed appropriate.

• Stocks, arranges, and delivers food and beverage items for students and staff.
• Prepares food and beverage items to meet mandated nutritional requirements and projected meal requirements.
• Serves food items to meet mandated nutritional requirements and/or requests of students and school personnel.
• Cashiers’ meal and ala carte sales successfully, makes accurate change, rings up all transactions, and meets the standard of over/short for the day.
• Cleans utensils, equipment, and the storage, food preparation and serving areas to maintain sanitary conditions using HACCP standards.
• Assists in promoting the food services program to ensure food service programs are self-supporting.
• Follows all established guidelines as identified in the Nutrition Services Employee handbook and in compliance with state and federal requirements and mandated health requirements.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

Below are the minimum qualifications for this job. Equivalent combinations of education and experience are also acceptable.

     Education

High School Diploma or GED. 

     Experience

N/A

     Licenses and Certifications

Sanitation certificate required within six months of hire.

     Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of food service methods and practices, including proper food safety and sanitation procedures.
• Ability to read and interpret standardized recipes and other technical documents. 
• Work requires excellent customer relations skills. 
• Ability to perform varied food service work including food preparation, serving, clean up, and cashiering.
• Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and customers and work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment.

Physical Requirements

The following provides a brief description of physical requirements for this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. The employee must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies. Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time. Exerting up to 40 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.  May be exposed to temperature extremes.

Reports to: Specialist, School Nutrition

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Months/Days/Hours: 10 months, 187 days, 5.5 hours per day

Salary Level: Universal 1

Salary Scale: https://www.lcps.org/compensation

Remote Work Eligible: No

Collective Bargaining Unit: Non-certified 

Essential  Personnel Disclosure 

Employees who perform the responsibilities of this job are considered essential personnel. Essential personnel are designated employees who must report for work during a delay or emergency situations. A workplace emergency is an unforeseen situation that threatens the staff, pupils, or the public; disrupts or shuts down business operations; or causes physical or environmental damage. Emergencies may be natural or manmade. It is incumbent upon the supervisor to inform and confirm which essential personnel are required to work during emergency closings. Notification and confirmation of the expectation of essential personnel to report to work, or maintain as-needed status, will be executed with as much advanced notice as possible via in-person communication or email.  

Internal School Nutrition Worker Applicants Only. If you are a current employee not in a school nutrition position that has interest in applying for a school nutrition position, please apply to the school nutrition apprentice position for further consideration.