Beginning Date: as soon as possible

Salary: $15.23 grade 14 step 1

Application: IN-DISTRICT: Submit a Letter of interest in Talent Ed

                  OUT OF DISTRICT: Submit a complete application in Talent Ed

Job Goal:

To prepare and serve a variety of quality foods to students at school food service sites under optimal sanitary conditions, and comply with United States Department of Agriculture, New Mexico Public Education Department, Southwest Training Systems, and New Mexico Environment Department regulations.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepares for breakfast and lunch services at sites.
• Loads and unloads truck.
• Cleans up and returns materials and undistributed foods.
• Supervises student workers.
• Performs one or several food service operations including general kitchen help, cafeteria serving, assisting in food preparation, or other related duties.
• Maintains personal hygiene and hygienic serving conditions in accordance with the New Mexico environmental code.
• Operates a variety of food preparation and service equipment.
• Sets up & breaks down steam tables, serving lines for breakfast and lunch.
• Performs daily cleaning of all kitchen equipment to ensure cleanliness and sanitary conditions are met.
• Maintains order and safety in the kitchen and cafeteria.
• Washes dishes and trays, cleans, sweeps, and mops food service areas.
• Completes and maintains records such as temperature logs and student meal counts.
• Oversees students assisting with food service.
• Do daily laundry.
• May operate food delivery vehicles during summer lunch program; may need to pick up and load the truck for deliveries.
• Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Safe driving principles and practices.
• District geography and locations of food serving sites.
• Food service sites and delivery schedules.
• Basics of food service operations.
• Modern food service equipment.

ABILITY TO:

• Safely drive and operate a food delivery vehicle.
• Work in a friendly manner with co-workers and students.
• Perform jobs and communicate in a noisy environment.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge and abilities as described are acceptable to meet education and experience requirements.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Valid Drivers License for the operation of a school vehicle.
• Health certifications for food handling as required.
• CPR/First Aid certification.
• Civil rights training.
• Mandated district training.

Physical Demands:

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.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.
• The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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 regularly works in both inside and outside environmental conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Revised March 2022