Position Type: Food Service
Date Posted: 5/8/2025
Location: Los Lagos Bilingual Academy
Date Available: August, 2025
Closing Date: Open Until filled
Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: Kitchen Assistant Posting 3714
Posting Dates: May 8, 2025 - Until Filled
Reports To: Food Director
Beginning: August, 2025
Hours: 29.75 hours per week
Monday: 8:00am-1:15pm
Tues, Wed: 7:15am-1:15pm
Thurs: 7:15am-1:30pm
Friday: 7:00am-1:15pm
School Year/Part Time
Qualifications: - Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred.
- Must obtain ServSafe Manager certification upon hire.
Job Responsibilities: - Food Preparation: Assist the main cook of all breakfast and lunch meals. Follow recipes and portion guidelines to ensure consistency and quality. Maintain a clean and organized work area at all times.
- Sanitation: Adhere to proper sanitation and food safety guidelines at all times. Clean and sanitize food preparation surfaces, equipment, and utensils. Monitor food temperatures and storage to prevent spoilage and contamination.
- Serving Students: Greet students and staff in a friendly and courteous manner. Serve food items according to portion sizes and dietary restrictions. Assist students with meal selections and answer any questions about menu items.
- Running Register: Occasionally operate the cash register and accurately process transactions. Handle cash in accordance with established procedures. Balance cash drawer at the end of each shift.
- Dishwashing: Assist with dishwashing duties as needed, including washing, rinsing, and sanitizing dishes, carts and utensils. Ensure that all dishes are properly cleaned and stored for future use.
- Culinary Skills: Proficient in preparing and cooking authentic Mexican cuisine, with knowledge of traditional recipes, ingredients, and cooking techniques.
- Language Proficiency: Must be fluent in Spanish, with strong verbal communication skills to effectively coordinate with staff and engage with Spanish-speaking students.
- Stocking/Ordering: Assist with putting away GFS order in dry storage, coolers and freezers.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: - Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles. Must be able to lift, carry, push and/or up tp 40 pounds
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Standing: Must be able to stand for extended periods and work in a fast-paced kitchen environment.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.