General Position Description: 

This position works collaboratively with the Chef and Nutrition Occupation Guide and the Nutrition Educator to ensure seamless planning, preparation, service, and clean-up of the school food program. 

Great River School’s kitchen focuses on: 

• All staff working collaboratively to deliver comprehensive food, garden, and nutrition education.
• Providing whole, sustainable, and delicious breakfasts, lunches, family meals, and value added products in partnership with students. 
• Strives to connect students, staff, parents and the surrounding community to our local food system.  

Qualifications: 

• 2+ years experience in natural food preparation, restaurants, catering or other professional food service settings.  
• Able to meet physical demands that include performing necessary tasks and activities.
• Works cooperatively with co-workers and management staff.
• Completes tasks required by following established procedures. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Comfortable with programs like Microsoft Excel
• Specific experience with school lunch kitchens or working with students a plus

Essential duties and responsibilities include: 

• Organizes orders for and oversees onsite breakfast and lunch service to students and staff.
• Takes lead coordinating with the school office for customer service - help provide information to answer emails, calls, and other questions from parents, staff, and students when needed.
• Assists with placing orders and tracking waste
• Maintains proper use and care of all food service equipment.
• Maintains proper sanitation, safety, and security procedures in all phases of operation.
• Assists with maintaining and updating required food service record-keeping forms including but not limited to: staff training documents, order guides, information sheets, invoices, finance documents, ingredient lists, prep sheets, reports and transfer sheets.
• Contributes to new menu ideas and development.
• Assist with planning nutrition meetings including agendas.
• Shares in dishwashing and kitchen cleaning tasks.
• Actively contributes to a welcoming, positive, and safe work environment for all.
• Performs other tasks as assigned by the Kitchen Manager and Head of School.