Food Service Specialist - IDEA Kyle (Immediate Opening)

IDEA Public Schools • Kyle, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Food Service Specialist ensures that appropriate quantities of food are prepared, portioned, and served to IDEA students. This role involves preparing food, following recipes, adhering to kitchen processes, monitoring students during meal periods, and performing kitchen cleaning duties. The position requires the ability to understand food recipes, safe food handling, and sanitation practices, as well as working knowledge of kitchen procedures and equipment operation. Basic math skills are necessary for portioning food items. The role also requires the ability to lift, bend, pull, push, and twist, and to work effectively under pressure in a team setting. The Food Service Specialist will be responsible for cooking, cleaning, restocking, and resetting the kitchen. They must be able to adapt quickly to changing tasks and take direction and feedback well. The role operates around an academic calendar, with potential for extended periods of downtime during breaks, and may require working on Saturdays depending on the campus. During regular school days, the role is 8 hours per day with some overtime needed.

Requirements

• Ability to understand food recipes, safe handling of food and sanitation practices.
• Working knowledge of kitchen/food production procedures.
• Ability to operate kitchen equipment, tools, and utensils.
• Ability to perform basic math skill.
• Works well under pressure in a team setting.
• Ability to lift, bend, pull, push, twist.
• Food Handler’s Permit (City of County)
• Has a basic knowledge or can quickly learn of food production processes.
• Can meet the physical demands of the job (lifting, bending, walking, etc.).
• Has a basic knowledge of providing service to our customers (students).
• Understand how to read and execute recipes.
• Must be able to handle working with medium to large equipment (i.e. ovens, slicer, steamer, etc.).
• Have basic math skills that directly relate to portioning food items in small trays.
• Takes pride in food that is prepared and served to the students.
• Can take direction and feedback well.
• Can adapt quickly in being switched from serving food to washing dishes.
• Can take feedback well, especially during mid-year and end of year.
• Can self-reflect and be honest with own performance, desire to correct mistakes quickly.
• Can work around or with an academic calendar.
• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college.
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them.
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly.
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization.
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes.
• Holds self to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for colleagues and students.

Nice To Haves

• Food service or restaurant experience preferred, but not required.
• High School Diploma Preferred but Not Required

Responsibilities

• Ensures that appropriate quantities of food are prepared, portioned, and served to IDEA students.
• Cuts/chops fruits & vegetables.
• Follows recipes.
• Adheres to established kitchen processes.
• Monitors students during meal periods (i.e. monitoring for appropriate behavior, encouraging students to consume more fresh fruits & vegetables, no sharing of food, etc.).
• Performs kitchen cleaning duties (sweeping, mopping, wiping tables, washing dishes, disposing of trash).
• Cooking, cleaning, restocking and resetting the kitchen for next day.
• Providing service to our customers (students).
• Reading and executing recipes.
• Handling working with medium to large equipment (i.e. ovens, slicer, steamer, etc.).
• Basic math skills that directly relate to portioning food items in small trays.
• Taking pride in food that is prepared and served to the students.
• Taking direction and feedback well.
• Adapting quickly to being switched from serving food to washing dishes.
• Taking feedback well, especially during mid-year and end of year.
• Self-reflecting and being honest with own performance, desire to correct mistakes quickly.
• Working around or with an academic calendar.
• Working extended periods of time where there is not work (i.e. Spring Break, Summer Break, Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break).
• Working 8 hours per day during regular school days.
• Working some overtime as needed.
• Potentially working on Saturdays depending on the campus.

Benefits

• Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $15.90 for 0 years of experience and $18.29.
• Eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.
• Comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children.
• Paid Family Leave: Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Staff members may apply for up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Professional Development: Staff opportunities to engage in identity-based affinity space and leadership training covering a variety of topics such as culturally competent leadership, models of equity, mitigating bias, and more.
• Dental and vision plans.
• Disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Parenting benefits.
• Generous vacation time.
• Referral bonuses.
• Professional development.
• Relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED