Kitchen Aide

Locations:

• Randy Smith Middle School
• North Pole High School
  
  

Job Summary

The duties performed by a kitchen aide are broad and flexible. Assists the kitchen manager to ensure that a quality, nutritious, cost effective meal program is available daily to students and staff.

Essential Job Functions

• Prepares food according to planned menus, using approved school recipes and safe food handling procedures.
• Serves food to students, teachers, staff, and the community.
• Labels and prepares food for storage.
• Daily use of PC computer and software programs to maintain operational accountability and compliance with the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) regulations.
• Oversees student workers during food preparation, serving, cleaning, sanitizing, stock rotation and other assigned tasks in an efficient and safe manner.
• Responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, stock rotation, and other assigned tasks in an efficient and safe manner.
• Maintains and cares for office equipment and ensures the kitchen is in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Operates Point of Sale (POS) software, receives and records account deposits, and reconciles daily sales.
• Loads and unloads food items, supplies, and/or equipment for the purpose of providing requested items at designated sites.
• Participates in unit meetings, in-service training, workshops, etc. for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform job functions and to meet NSLP professional standards requirements.
• Communicates and interacts with students, staff, parents and the community.
• Contributes to a team environment by assisting coworkers with scheduled work demands.
• Performs secondary kitchen manager duties during his/her absence. Must be available to work
  
  

kitchen manager hours in his/her absence.