Job Title: Kitchen Coordinator I
Location: District Schools
Job Group: Non-Union Support Staff
Pay Level: Non Exempt, Non Union Pay Grade 9
Reports To: Nutrition Service Director
Summary: Coordinates and assists in the preparation and serving of quality food to students, faculty, and staff in
an efficient and professional manner. Ensures that safe and efficient food preparation, service, and clean up
processes are followed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for ensuring proper food preparation for meals, including, but not limited to Breakfast and Lunch.
2. Orders food as directed by supervisor and/or department guidelines.
3. Maintains daily and monthly logs, including but not limited to: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
(HAACP), refrigeration, receiving, cooking, and temperature.
4. Ensures all food production records are accurate and properly completed on a daily basis.
5. Maintains kitchen and food in accordance with local and state health department rules and school policies.
Observes and ensures all staff follow proper hygiene and sanitation procedures in all aspects of daily duties.
6. Works safely within established guidelines for lifting techniques and knife safety; keeps facility picked up and
hazard free, and cooperates to keep co-workers safe.
7. Remains current on job related knowledge, including but not limited to: sanitation, food borne illness, food
contamination, cooking and holding temperatures (safe food handling). May attend trainings.
8. Assists with the daily cleaning of all dishes, trays, kitchen equipment, and work areas in accordance with
department standards.
9. Operates cash register and/or performs other payment related tasks such as collecting tickets and/or money
and makes change. Performs daily cash-settlement functions: counts money and completes cash-related
reports. May train others in cash registrar and/or cash-settlement functions.
10. Performs other duties as assigned.
General Responsibilities: Performs in a safe and responsible way at all times. Presents a neat, clean, and
appropriately dressed manner. The ability to cultivate and lead a collaborative team environment is essential to the
employee's successful job performance. Ability to perform duties with awareness of all District requirements and
School Board policies. This position may assist the Director in employment processes, including but not limited to:
selection, performance management, and training. Assists administration in establishing and maintaining schoolbased discipline and a positive learning environment for students. Regular attendance in accordance with
established work schedule.
Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are typical of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.
Education and/or Experience: Must be a High School graduate or have a General Educational Development
Diploma (GED). Two or more years experience with large-scale cooking, food preparation, and serving and a
minimum of 1 year of food production supervision.
Licenses and/or Certificates: Must hold a ServeSafe Manager Certificate or the equivalent or must be certified
within a requested period of time. Valid Vermont Driver’s License.
Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, memos, and documents such as:
recipes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to develop and write
routine correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to individuals, small groups, or before others from the greater
school community. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing is essential
Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills and to calculate figures
and amounts such as: weight, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, distance, and volume. Ability to
apply concepts of basic algebra. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money.
Reasoning Skills: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral,
or diagram form. Demonstrated ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations.
Other Skills and Abilities: Personal computer and spreadsheet experience. Effective organization skills and the
demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously is required. Ability to perform duties with awareness
of all district requirements and School Board policies as they relate to the job responsibilities is essential. Ability to
work in a friendly manner with co-workers and students. Basic knowledge of nutritional values in food served, food
allergies, and diet restrictions. Demonstrated ongoing commitment to workplace diversity, sustainability, and
delivering exceptional customer service.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are typical of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations as defined by the district may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk talk, see, hear and stand. The
employee is sometimes required to sit and crouch. The employee will frequently bend and/or twist at the neck and
trunk while performing the duties of this job. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
The incumbent must demonstrate manual dexterity to operate a computer, adding machine, phone, and other office
machinery. Regular repetitive motion for hand/arm/finger movement is required. The employee must occasionally
lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, such as milk crates, frozen food and canned foods. Specific vision abilities
required by this job include close vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and color vision. The employee may
occasionally be asked to travel to other work locations.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in temperatures above 100 degrees and
occasionally will walk on slippery surfaces. The employee must be able to meet deadlines with severe time
constraints and interact with public and other workers. The noise level in the work environment is frequently
moderate to loud. The employee is exposed to a greater-than-average risk of injury such as cuts or burns while
performing the duties of this job.
Terms of Employment: School year or as specified on the Memorandum of Agreement
Evaluation: Performance will be evaluated at least annually by the Nutritional Service Director according to the
stated performance objectives and the qualities and characteristics contained on the evaluation form.
Date Approved: 7/27/21 G.Marckres; R. Ketner
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-325),
which became effective on January 1, 2009 is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individual(s) currently
holding this position and additional duties may be assigned. The Board reserves the right to waive the essential requirements contained in this job description.