3.5 Hour Cook

Description: Provide a nutritious, safe, and healthy meals to students; prepare and serve food items; run POS machine; clean up kitchen.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Food Service experience preferred
• Valid Motor Vehicle Operator's license

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to work effectively with others
• Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
• Effective, active listening skills
• Organizational and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of school lunch program regulations
• Knowledge of food handling, safety, and sanitation regulations
• Menu planning and food costing knowledge
• Knowledge of weights and measures
• Ability to complete production sheets, orders, and cash reports
• Food production skills
• Ability to utilize appropriate computer software
• Ability to operate, clean, and maintain food service equipment
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable to changing situations
• Ability to work independently
• Strong math skills
• Understanding and patient with staff, parents, and students

NOTE: The lists below are not ranked in order of importance:

Essential Functions:

• Exhibit professional behavior, emotional stability and sound judgment
• Respond appropriately to crisis situations (i.e. emergencies, employee/parent concerns)
• Ensure safety of students
• Prepare foods according to menu and production records
• Pre-portion or dish-up foods as required
• Setup serving line
• Stock milk cooler and snack carts
• Stock trays, cutlery, paper goods etc. as needed
• Serve foods to students and staff
• Collect money during meal service; write Cafe Money Reminders as required
• Verify that all meals served meet school lunch program requirements
• Verify unused food quantities; assure all leftovers and properly and safely stored
• Wash all trays, dishes, pots, pans, utensils, and store properly
• Clean all equipment and work surfaces after use
• Balance cash register and complete required paperwork
• Make bank deposit if acting as head cook
• Assist in checking in orders and putting deliveries away
• Offer menu and recipe suggestions
• Make contacts with the public with tact and diplomacy
• Maintain respect at all times for confidential information
• Outstanding attendance and punctuality
• Interact in a positive manner with staff, students and parents
• Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude, and conversation
• Complete required annual Continued Education, Civil Rights training and HACCP training
• Attend meetings and in-services as required

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Respond to routine questions and requests in an appropriate manner
• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings
• Instill in students the belief in, and practice of ethical principles and democratic values
• Perform other duties as assigned by the food service supervisor
• Refrigerator/freezer
• Dish machine
• Washer/dryer
• POS system
• Calculator
• Computer
• Telephone
• Fax Machine

Equipment Operated:

• Convection oven
• Combi
• Steamer
• Steam kettle
• Slicer
• Mixer
• Vegetable cutter/chopper
• Steamtable

Additional Working Conditions:

• Occasional exposure to bodily fluids
• Occasional operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions (i.e., being prepared to come to work on all scheduled days, except calamity days unless it falls on grocery day)
• Occasional interaction among unruly children
• Regular requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, stoop, crouch, climb, and kneel
• Lifting and carrying of office supplies and materials up to a maximum of fifty pounds
• Occasional travel
• Exposure to heat and humidity
• Repetitive hand motion

Employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non-prescribed controlled substance use in the workplace throughout his/her employment with the District.