West Ottawa Public Schools
Kitchen Assistant
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Job Description
- Req#: 3716
- Position Type:
Food Service
'); ' - Date Posted:
5/8/2025 - Location:
Riley Farms Elementary - Date Available:
August, 2025 - Closing Date:
Open until filled - Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred.
- ServSafe certified preferred.
- Cafeteria Monitoring: Greet students and staff in a friendly and courteous manner. Keep a clean and welcoming cafeteria enviroment. 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 enviironment.
- 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.
- 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 40pounds
- 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.
- Standing: Able to stand for extended periods and work in a fast-paced kitchen environment.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.
- Experience working in a school kitchen or cafeteria preferred.
- ServSafe certified preferred.
- Cafeteria Monitoring: Greet students and staff in a friendly and courteous manner. Keep a clean and welcoming cafeteria enviroment. 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 enviironment.
- 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.
- 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 40pounds
- 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.
- Standing: Able to stand for extended periods and work in a fast-paced kitchen environment.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.
Notice of Support Staff Posting
Posting Dates: May 8, 2025 – Until Filled
Position: Kitchen Assistant - Riley Farms Elementary Posting # 3716
Reports To: Food Director
Beginning: August, 2025
Hours: 20 hours per week
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Monday to Friday
School Year/Part Time
Qualifications:
- Position Type:
About the company
West Ottawa High School is located in Ottawa County, Michigan.
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