Benefits:

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Employee discounts

Flexible schedule

Free food & snacks

Free uniforms

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Training & development

Vision insurance

Education and Experience: Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:

· Menu is posted and followed, with appropriate substitutions made when necessary. Substitutions are documented properly.

· Meals and snacks are prepared and served in a timely manner.

· Effective use of storage units, and food is labeled, organized, rotated.

· Food and paper items are inventoried weekly and items ordered appropriately and in accordance with budget guidelines.

· Excess food items are used by working them into the menu, thus providing effective cost control.

· Uses problem solving skills to increase productivity, maintain working relationships, and maintain cost control.

· Safe, hazard free, uses good judgment.

· Consistently clean and maintained on ongoing basis, counters, shelves, floors, appliances.

· Follows Children’s Lighthouse Kitchen Manager guidelines, systems, and requirements.

· Uses proper sanitation procedures as required by local and state agencies.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

· Must be safety conscious at all times of self and others. Will frequently lift as in lifting, carrying, shelving groceries, and lifting/carrying infants and children.

· Required to stand and/or walk up to 90% of the day, as needed.

· Must be able to stoop, bend and sit to prepare food, maintain kitchen, and assist in classrooms if allowed/needed.

· Able to physically and mentally interact and react to children on the playground and/or in the classroom and attend to their needs.

General Areas

· Completes and submits all records as required, including time sheets, menu postings, inventory, purchases, incident reports and any other required documentation.

· Helps to maintain ratios in classrooms by filling in for absent staff members when necessary, in the early morning and naptime hours as necessary, and assist with bus runs.

· Supports all Children’s Lighthouse policies and procedures as states in manuals, handbooks, and official memos.

· Has energy level to do the job

· Good role model including attendance, dress code, attitude

· Does not participate in gossip

· Open to change - Flexible and able to adapt

· Participates in extra-curricular activities of school

· Attends staff meetings

· Able and willing to accept direction, feedback, and evaluation

· Uses good judgment in all areas.