Food Service Coordinator

Position: Food Service Coordinator - 52 weeks

Location: Administrative Service Center

Reports to:Director of Food and Nutrition Services

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree preferred with emphasis on food service/hospitality management and/or nutrition dietetics preferred.
• Accredited or eligible for Serve-Safe Certification.
• Valid drivers license.
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in high-volume food service management.
• Experienced in food service management including quantity food preparation techniques operation of commercial kitchen equipment and sanitation and safety practices.
• Experience in office management delegation of tasks and work group collaboration.
• Experience with multi-site personnel management and coordination.
• Experience with Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work with technologies such as AS400 Kronos Meal Magic and Titan.
• Able to maintain confidentiality of classified information.
• Available for occasional evening and/or early morning duties outside of typical work hours.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment featuring detailed work multitasking intense deadlines with many interruptions.
• Ability to troubleshoot on demand with kitchen staff.

Description:

• Assists the Food & Nutrition Services Director in the operation of K-12 food service program serving over 3 million meals annually according to state and federal program requirements.
• Oversees four office staff and 100 food service staff members.
• Lead contact for multiple vendors.
• Forecasts all food and nonfood products used in kitchens monthly.
• Assists director with developing an RFP/bid for beverages produce bread and other products each school year.
• Evaluates potential new products.
• Manages federal commodity food entitlement to maximize value quality and efficient use of federal funding.
• Works collaboratively with the warehouse staff vendors and food service staff to ensure food is delivered to 37 buildings.
• Assists with the development of cycle and a la carte menus.
• Prices all a la carte items according to state and federal guidelines.
• Lead coordinator of monitoring all daily and biweekly warehouse driver routings orders deliveries and inventories.
• Checks kitchen orders according to menu and inputs into vendor websites.
• Tracks delivery times for kitchen staff.
• Prints and sends menus to elementary staff and satellite managers.
• Updates vendor order forms and provides to staff.
• Prints scans and emails menus and production records to early education teachers.
• Answers phone calls early morning for any issues that arise in kitchens before arriving to office.
• Hires all food service staff for permanent positions and sends documentation to human resources.
• Provides orientation for new staff.
• Generates memo for staff that apply and accept open positions within food service.
• Provides human resources with a memo requesting to post open food service positions when they become available.
• Lead contact for catering events.
• Plans prices and staffs catering and special events district wide.
• Produces invoices for catering events and follows up with accounting to ensure invoices are paid.
• Creates buttons and prices in Meal Magic for the POS system used in cafeterias
• Works in Titan to assist with adding items creating meal plans production records and recipes.
• Inputs work orders for maintenance in kitchens and transfer of equipment throughout the district.
• Approves payroll in Kronos for 11 secondary kitchen staff and provides payroll with pay adjustments for employees that have transferred into a higher paying role during the pay period.
• Assists with planning monthly training meetings for elementary and secondary staff
• Fill in for lead speaker at meetings when Food & Nutrition Service Director is not available.
• Answers many phone calls daily.
• Ensures excellence through equity and access for all students.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

IC