Job Title: Kitchen Assistant Manager
FLSA Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
Classification Group: Food and Nutrition Services
Supervising Position: Kitchen Manager or designee
Pay Plan: Educational Support Personnel
Pay Range: Range 05
Last Updated: 8/2026
JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for assisting the manager in oversight of kitchen operations to ensure that students are served nutritious and attractive meals in a clean and caring atmosphere. Assists with development of kitchen staff and promotes good community relations among various community and school clientele.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: This job has supervisor responsibilities including, but not limited to, interviewing, hiring, directing work, assigning work, supervising work, training, evaluating, disciplining, and terminating. Direct reports:
- Food Service Worker
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: The minimum prerequisites of formal education, professional work experience, certifications, licenses, endorsements, designations, trainings, and other criteria that a candidate must fulfill to be considered for a position. It is essential that certifications, licenses, endorsements, designations, and trainings are fulfilled, valid, and not expired.
- Criminal background check and fingerprinting required
- High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma
- One (1) year of professional work experience
- Proficient in the English language with the ability read, write, and speak English fluently
- Must be ServSafe certified within first year of hire
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS: The physical demands, mental functions, cognitive capacities, and work environment factors required to perform a position’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work location is subject to change to meet the requirements of the organization
- Medium work strength level (lifting or carrying 50 pounds)
- Primarily works indoors
- Typically a loud noise level
- Work with, handle, prepare, serve and cleanup of a variety of proteins including beef, chicken, fish, pork and plant-based options
- Requires repetitive bending, reaching, and pulling
- Prolonged standing/walking
- Eye-hand coordination for register and computer operation
- Visual concentration on equipment
- Temperature variations
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Formal education, professional work experience, certifications, licenses, endorsements, designations, trainings, and other qualifications relevant to the position that are strongly preferred but not mandatory for a candidate to be considered.
- Experience working in the public sector, specifically public education
- Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds
- Racially conscious and culturally competent with the skill, will, capacity, and knowledge to commit to a culture of continuous improvement
- Up to two (2) years’ experience in food service, with management experience preferred