Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: Kitchen Assistant Posting # 3658
-West Ottawa High School South
Posting Dates: March 11, 2025 – Until Filled
Reports To: Food Service Director
Beginning: March, 2025
Hours: 16.25 hour per week
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 10:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
School Year/Part Time
Qualifications:
- Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred
Job Responsibilities: - Food Preparation:
Assist with light food preparation.
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:
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. - Stocking: 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, push, pull and/or carry 20-50 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.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.
