Kitchen Assistant

Notice of Support Staff Posting
 
Position: Kitchen Assistant Posting # 4003

• Harbor Lights Middle School

Posting Dates: May 12, 2026 � Until Filled
 
Reports To: Food Director
 
Beginning: May 26, 2026
 
Hours: 21.25 hours per week
Monday to Friday
School Year/Part Time

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Qualifications:

• Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred.
• ServSafe certified preferred.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve 6-8 grade students' breakfast and lunch in the cafeteria.
• Food Safety and Sanitation: Adhere to strict food safety and sanitation protocols to maintain a clean and hygienic kitchen environment.
• Customer Service: Provide friendly and professional customer service to school staff, students, and parents during meal deliveries.
• Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of meal preparation, delivery activities, and inventory transactions. Order food and supplies through kitchen manager. Assist with light food prep.
• Other: Physically demanding job. Must be able to push, pull, lift, carry up to 40 lbs.

 
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 pull up to 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.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
• The worker should provide consistent and in person reliable attendance.