Cafeteria Operator

Job Title: Cafeteria Operator

Supervisor: Cafeteria Management

Terms of Employment: 185 days

Pay Grade: 101

To serve the customer attractive and nutritious meals in an efficient, clean, and friendly environment.

• Prepare assigned breakfast and lunch meals.
• Follow established recipes as assigned by cafeteria management to ensure quality, portion and nutritional requirements.
• Serve attractive, well presented and portion-controlled menu items in a friendly manner.
• Follow specific sanitation and food safety practices established by the food service child nutrition program.
• Attend a 10-hour sanitation course provided by HCS food services and a refresher course every three years.
• Complete safe school training videos regarding practicing safety requirements in all kitchen areas.
• Complete job requirements in assigned areas including cashiering, baking, maintaining dish room, daily record keeping, properly receiving and storing food and supplies, fruit/vegetable preparation, salad/sandwich preparation, mainline cooking, inventory control and kitchen janitorial duties.
• Follow general directions and assignments required by cafeteria management with limited supervision.
• Physical Effort:
  Frequent lifting or moving of objects weighing 30 to 50 pounds. Sweeping, mopping, twisting, turning, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling.
• Working Conditions:
  
  Works in noisy kitchen with fluctuating temperatures, exposure to steam, fumes, cooking odors and chemicals. Danger of slips, trips, falls, burns and cuts. Exposure to extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigerators/freezers.
• Equipment Operation:
  Responsible for operating dangerous pieces of equipment – meat slicers, food choppers, garbage disposals, etc. Responsible for breakdown and cleaning of all equipment, including inside, outside and filters of the kitchen hood and dishwasher hood.
• Follow Horry County School District Dress Code: approved uniforms, approved hair restraints and slip resistant, closed-toed shoes must be worn daily.
• Attend staff development days.

Performs other duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by the Cafeteria Management.

Performance of this position will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on the evaluation of Support Personnel.

• High School diploma.
• Previous school food service experience preferred.

• Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry.
• Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone.
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Revised 8/22/2023

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor. Horry County Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.