Kitchen Coordinator

South Burlington School District Position Description Job Title: Kitchen Coordinator Location: District Schools Job Group: Non-Certified, Non-Union Support Staff Reports To: Nutrition Service Director Summary: Coordinates and assists in the preparation and serving of quality food to students, faculty, and staff in an efficient and professional manner. Ensures that safe and efficient food preparation, service, and clean up processes are followed. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Responsible for ensuring proper food preparation for meals, including, but not limited to Breakfast and Lunch. 2. Orders food as directed by supervisor and/or department guidelines. 3. Maintains daily and monthly logs, including but not limited to: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HAACP), refrigeration, receiving, cooking, and temperature. 4. Maintains kitchen and food in accordance with local and state health department rules and school policies. Observes and ensures all staff follow proper hygiene and sanitation procedures in all aspects of daily duties. 5. Works safely within established guidelines for lifting techniques and knife safety; keeps facility picked up and hazard free, and cooperates to keep co-workers safe. 6. Remains current on job related knowledge, including but not limited to: sanitation, food borne illness, food contamination, cooking and holding temperatures (safe food handling). May attend trainings. 7. Performs other duties as assigned. Supervisory Responsibilities: The ability to cultivate and lead a collaborative team environment is essential to the employee's successful job performance. This position may assist the Director in employment processes, including but not limited to: selection, performance management, and training. Assists administration in establishing and maintaining school-based discipline and a positive learning environment for students. Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are typical of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and/or Experience: Must be a High School graduate or have a General Educational Development Diploma (GED). One year or more experience with large-scale cooking, food preparation, and serving. Licenses and/or Certificates: Must hold a ServeSafe Certificate or the equivalent or must be certified within a requested period of time. Valid Vermont Driver’s License. Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, memos, and documents such as: recipes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to develop and write routine correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to individuals, small groups, or before others from the greater school community. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing is essential Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills and to calculate figures and amounts such as: weight, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, distance, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money. Reasoning Skills: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Demonstrated ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Other Skills and Abilities: Personal computer and spreadsheet experience. Effective organization skills and the demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously is required. Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and School Board policies as they relate to the job responsibilities is essential. Ability to work in a friendly manner with co-workers and students. Basic knowledge of nutritional values in food served, food allergies, and diet restrictions. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are typical of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations as defined by the district may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk talk, see, hear and stand. The employee is sometimes required to sit and crouch. The employee will frequently bend and/or twist at the neck and trunk while performing the duties of this job. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The incumbent must demonstrate manual dexterity to operate a computer, adding machine, phone, and other office machinery. Regular repetitive motion for hand/arm/finger movement is required. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, such as milk crates, frozen food and canned foods. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and color vision. The employee may occasionally be asked to travel to other work locations. 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in temperatures above 80 degrees and will walk on slippery surfaces. The employee must be able to meet deadlines with severe time constraints and must interact with others. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The incumbent will be subjected to sharp objects, hot ovens and surfaces while performing the duties of this job. Terms of Employment: School year or as specified on the Memorandum of Agreement. Evaluation: According to established guidelines. Approved Dated: January, 2008/ D. Young Approved Revision Date: November 11, 2013 The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-325), which became effective on January 1, 2009 is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individual(s) currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned. The Board reserves the right to waive the essential requirements contained in this job description.