CNP Manager-TBD

CNP Manager

Qualifications:

1. Minimum: High school diploma or equivalent

2. Must have a working knowledge of Excel.

Purpose of Job: To oversee the assigned school cafeteria and ensure a smooth and efficient operation for all students' ultimate health, comfort, and benefit. The Child Nutrition Manager is responsible for directly supervising the child nutrition employees at that location. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to forecasting how much of each menu item is needed for their school, assisting with checking in the food as it is received, receiving payments for student accounts, collecting deficit accounts, completing daily records/bank deposits, and approving employee hours within the time management system. To oversee and assist with food preparation, use equipment and items to be placed on the serving lines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The following duties are typical for this job. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.

- Promotes good public relations and increased participation with students, faculty, and parents through outstanding customer service. 

-Responsible for ensuring that Federal and State rules and regulations and local board policies on meal requirements, record keeping, and personnel are implemented and fulfilled as required.

- Planned and directed the preparation and service of delicious and attractive food in the correct quantities in the cafeteria by specifying duties and providing written work schedules to promote efficient production.

- Supervises and directs the cafeteria staff to ensure that menus developed by the Child Nutrition Department are followed utilizing standardized recipes and procedures and are served in standardized portions to ensure correct quantities to meet the federally mandated nutritional requirements.

- Assigns, directs, plans, and supervises the work of cafeteria staff in such a way as to prevent grievances and undesirable situations and to promote teamwork.

- Plans and assigns employees' work by specifying duties and providing written work schedules.

- Review employee hours through the time management system to ensure that the employees are clocking in and out in the required manner and approve them for payroll each cycle.

- Make sure substitutes are arranged for employees when they are going to be absent.

- Provide and document on-the-job training and means of growth for all cafeteria staff members.

- Assesses individual employee performance and provides a written evaluation in a review with each cafeteria staff member before submitting it to the Field Manager.

- Keeps the Child Nutrition Director informed of personnel problems and any issues or concerns.

- Organizes and maintains a safe, healthy, clean operation by specifying duties and providing written cleaning schedules.

- Observes and ensures that staff members adhere to the personal appearance policy and are free of illness while carrying out their duties. 

-Always ensures that all state and local health regulations are always maintained.

- Reports all accidents using the proper procedures.

- Checks to see that all equipment in the cafeteria area is in safe working condition and notifies the appropriate authority when repairs or replacements are needed.

- Secures all food, supplies, and equipment within the cafeteria.

- Assumes responsibility for the security of all cash until it is turned over to the proper authorities.

- Orders all food and supplies needed on an as-scheduled basis through the production kitchen.

- Ensures that all food and supplies received at the school are checked against the invoice for accuracy and signed only after each order has been verified thoroughly.

- Ensures that all food and supplies are received and stored with consideration given to proper food safety and handling procedures.

- Report any errors in the delivery, such as being shorted products, faulty or unsatisfactory food quality, and incorrect prices, to the Child Nutrition Director as soon as possible.

- Responsible for properly reconciling, receipting, and depositing all collected money in the bank in compliance with state requirements.

- Operates the cafeteria within expense constraints to contribute to the financial viability of the School Nutrition Program operation.

- Prepares and maintains accurate and adequate income records and number of meals served by eligibility category and adult and a la carte sales.

- Assists school administration with the collection of deficit lunchroom accounts.

- Prepares and maintains accurate and adequate records on food and supplies received and used through maintaining invoices for all purchases and preparing a monthly physical inventory.

- Prepares and maintains daily production records as a tool for planning, communication, and auditing documentation.

- Promotes increasing participation through good public relations and marketing skills with students, faculty, and parents.

- Works with the principal to make the cafeteria an extension of the classrooms and assists in promoting and offering nutrition education to students.

- Participates in managers' meetings and in-service training programs to stay informed and to extend their knowledge and ability in the various areas of the School Nutrition Program.

- Supervises, directs, trains, and evaluates assigned staff, handling employee concerns and problems, assigning work, counseling, and recommending disciplinary and other personnel actions.

- Orders food and nonfood items weekly for cafeteria operations; conducts food and supply inventory and prepares corresponding reports.

- Plans daily work schedule for breakfast and lunch and assigns tasks during staff meetings.

- Plans daily menu count; plans menus for adequate and nutritious lunches according to prescribed centralized menus and guidelines.

- May be required to assist in food preparation, serving line set-up, and cashiering.

- Prepares production reports; reconciles monies collected for meals with cashier reports; makes daily money deposits.

- Prepares and maintains accurate records of transactions as required by the School System.

- Checks temperatures of the freezer, more relaxed refrigerators, hot and cold carts, and warmer; maintains temperature logs, posts temperature charts, and submits work orders for maintenance repairs as needed.

- Oversees food preparation and housekeeping to meet quality and acceptable sanitation standards.

- Collects free and reduced meal applications and forwards them to the Child Nutrition Director.

- Checks in deliveries and assists with loading/unloading food carts, food items, and supplies from vehicles.

- Oversees and assists with stocking food shelves and storage room.

- Responsible for locking/unlocking cafeteria, freezers, refrigerators, and milk boxes and complying with all energy-efficient work instructions and department directives on conserving energy.

- Organizes office and filing system; files reports and invoices; answers telephones; provides parents information.

- Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the Principal or Child Nutrition Director may assign or delegate from time to time.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.