Kitchen Assistant

Notice of Support Staff Posting
 
Position:                      Kitchen Assistant                                                    Posting # 3921

• Lakewood Elementary

Posting Dates:             January 21, 2026 � Until Filled
 
Reports To:                 Food Director
 
Beginning:                   January, 2026
 
Hours:                         10 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:

• Cafeteria Monitoring: Greet students and staff in a friendly and courteous manner. Keep a clean and welcoming cafeteria environment. Wash and lift tables at the end of the lunch period. Empty full trash bins and take trash to outside dumpster.  Assist students with their meals and answer any questions about menu items.
• Food Safety and Sanitation: Adhere to strict food safety and sanitation protocols to maintain a clean and hygienic kitchen and cafeteria 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.         
• 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.
• Other: Physically demanding job. Must be able to push,pull, lift, carry up to 40 lbs.  Able to stand for extended periods and work in a fast-paced kitchen environment. Runs register at each lunch period.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 
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 reliable in-person attendance.