Substitute School Food Service Manager

St. Landry Parish School Board•Opelousas, LA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The School Food Service Manager is responsible for providing students with appetizing, nutritional meals in a sanitary and pleasant environment that promotes positive learning. This role involves managing food budgets, planning menus, supervising staff, ensuring food quality and safety, and maintaining inventory and financial records.

Requirements

Ability to complete written reports and recommendations.
Effective communication and human relations skills.
Knowledge of the needs of a diverse work force.
Ability to work simple math problems.
Skills in duties of technicians as demonstrated by completion of technician course.
Ability to supervise, train and evaluate cafeteria employees.
High School diploma or equivalent.
Must meet State Certification Requirements.
Satisfactory Completion of Red Cross First Aid Course including CPR within 60 days of employment.

Responsibilities

Maintains food budget.
Determines when equipment needs repair and schedules regular maintenance.
Determines small equipment needs.
Plans menu item substitution (with permission of Supervisor of Child Nutrition).
Promotes good nutrition for students, teachers, and others.
Performs orientation and on-the-job training for cafeteria employees.
Completes job performance evaluations and gives feedback to others.
Increases or reduces standardized recipes and determines ingredient substitution when necessary.
Plans advance preparation, production, work, and cleaning schedules.
Plans serving counter arrangement.
Checks food quality during preparation and utilizes food-merchandising techniques.
Receives and responds to complaints about food and service.
Promotes positive feelings about School Food Service in students, faculty, administrators, and others.
Estimates and orders food and supplies.
Receives food deliveries.
Performs physical inventories of food and equipment and maintains inventory reports.
Determines amounts of food items to be issued from the storeroom and monitors issuance.
Reports information about personnel.
Maintains reports documenting foods used and participation (SFS-6, SFS-7, SFS-7a, and other reports) as required.
Handles money and makes deposits daily.
Protects food, supplies, equipment, and money from theft.
Practices safe working habits, corrects and/or reports unsafe working conditions, and enforces safety rules.
Performs basic first aid and maintains the first aid kit.
Monitors sanitation techniques and corrects unacceptable personal hygiene and sanitation practices.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.