Cafeteria Substitute

Position: Cafeteria Substitute

Department/Location: District Schools

The Nashoba Regional School District inspires and challenges all learners to realize their unique potential and become active contributors to their community.

Nashoba's core values remain constant, provide the foundation for our work, and influence how we conduct ourselves and engage with others. Our core values are academic achievement and personal growth; voice, choice and agency; lifelong learning; a safe, caring and inclusive community; collaborative partnerships; innovation; and a sense of belonging.

Cafeteria Substitute is employed without regard to age, physical, mental or psychiatric disability, genetics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, or military status.

NRSD welcomes employees with diverse racial, cultural, religious, class, and/or gender background and experiences.

Organizational Scope:

Reporting to the Director of Food Services and to the Building Principal, works directly under the Cafeteria Manager and collaboratively with lunchroom staff.

Position Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation of nutritionally sound and safe meals for students and staff
• Assists with food preparation, service, and clean up duties in one or more functional areas (snack, salad bar, cashiering, food preparation, baking, cooking, set up, clean up)
• Assists with set up activities (assembling recipe/menu items, washing and cutting fruits and vegetables, slicing breads and meats, opening canned goods, mixing ingredients)
• Assists with serving activities (filling line serving units, measuring and monitoring quantities to ensure sufficient amounts, maintaining temperatures
• Assists with clean up/closing activities
• All other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications & Physical Demands:

Work is performed in a confined, noisy, crowded, busy kitchen environment. May require wearing gloves, bending, color identification, crouching, gripping with hands and fingers, communicating with students and staff, kneeling, occasionally lifting/carrying up to 60 pounds, pulling, pushing, reaching, sitting, standing for long periods, stooping, twisting body and walking. The work setting may include exposure to cleaners, dust, solvents, grease, water, pollen, fumes.

Ability to perform simple mathematical computations in taking inventory, preparing food and accounting for meals is also required.

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