Management Assistant - Nutrition Services - Eugene School District 4-j
Eugene, OR
About the Job
This position is for the 2024/2025 school year. This is a full-time, 1.0 FTE/8 hours per day position working on the CL-12 (260 days per school year) schedule, Mon-Fri, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Assists Nutrition Services Manager(s) in monitoring the district’s decentralized food service programs to assure compliance with USDA and district regulations; implements corrective actions and program improvements as required. Distinguished by the requirement for knowledge of institutional food service management and USDA Child Nutrition Program regulations.
Essential Functions
The statements below reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may at times perform a subset of these duties or other duties as assigned which could include work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload.
Assists Nutrition Services Manager(s) in monitoring the district’s decentralized food service programs to assure compliance with USDA and district regulations; implements corrective actions and program improvements as required. Distinguished by the requirement for knowledge of institutional food service management and USDA Child Nutrition Program regulations.
Essential Functions
The statements below reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may at times perform a subset of these duties or other duties as assigned which could include work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload.
- Conduct random inspections of kitchen facilities, food storage, food handling, and menu preparation practices to assure schools provide cost-effective, nutritionally balanced meal programs within USDA and health regulations. Identify and recommend solutions to operational or procedural problems.
- Identify need for, schedule, and conduct in-service training to kitchen staffs in sanitation requirements and techniques recordkeeping, goal setting, new food products, and menu items, and food preparation.
- Develop performance standards and evaluate on the job training of substitutes.
- Develop economical, nutritional standardized food preparation procedures; modify as necessary to maximize the use of individual kitchen's available equipment and staff.
- Participate in developing cost-effective nutritional recipes by researching modifying, and assigning new recipes to kitchen coordinator for production. Assess the final product and modify ingredients and or instructions as necessary. Determine production costs and serving size, add acceptable recipes to menus.
- Develop and implement internal control procedures for purchasing and accounting for food, paper, and equipment. Train and assist with recordkeeping systems and cash handling procedures.
- Standardize district kitchen equipment requirements and assist with life-cycle replacement planning.
- Prepare department financial reports and assist with strategies to increase program profitability and participation.
- Supervise new product testing process design testing procedures, assist in the analysis of results and writing order specifications for approved products.
- Develop and implement communication and outreach strategies to publicize school food service programs including monitoring vended meal agreements.
- Meet Child Nutrition Program requirements for professional development through continuing education, seminars, reading, and professional society relationships.
- Maintains regular and prompt attendance.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Education Center - 200 North Monroe Street, Eugene, Oregon
Agency: Nutrition Services
Source : Eugene School District 4-j