About the Role
The Site Lead is a critical role responsible for executing the daily menu to company recipe specifications and the operations of a school site to company standards. This role involves preparing meals, leading a team, and managing daily prep and administration.
Responsibilities
- Leads the daily preparation and service for breakfast, snack, and/or lunch
- Executes meals in accordance with the daily menu and recipe standards
- Ensures on-time service in accordance with the minute-by-minute school schedule
- Manages food service associates, ensuring adherence to procedures and excellent customer service
- Completes accurate National School Lunch-compliant production records
- Manages inventory and food waste
- Receives deliveries, checking for quality and accuracy
- Ensures all food safety practices are followed
- Takes daily physical inventory and places orders
- Maintains food safe environment standards and reports issues immediately
- Serves as the face of Genuine Foods, greeting students, teachers, and parents
- Encourages students to try new foods
- Reports to the field manager and culinary and operations directors
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of food or customer service supervisor experience/training in a mid-high volume food service facility or restaurant
- Creative problem-solver with passion, enthusiasm, and fresh ideas
- Proven track record of being organized, dependable, and self-motivated
- Team builder with the ability to successfully manage and develop a team
- Able to work independently and manage up and down
- Able to climb stairs and lift up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to work in a school environment amongst kids grades K-12
Skills
- Food preparation
- Team leadership
- Inventory management
- Food safety
- Customer service
- Record keeping
- Problem-solving
- Organization
- Dependability
- Self-motivation
- Team building
- Independent work
- Communication
Location
- Lyndonville, VT
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Hourly
- Mon-Fri Schedule
Experience Level
- Supervisor
Salary/Compensations
- $20.00 - $23.00 Hourly
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday pay
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Career Growth
About the Company
- Genuine Foods creates nourishing food environments at schools and workplaces through great-tasting and wholesome meals, made from genuine ingredients.
- We are a growing social enterprise that uses food to enhance health, productivity and happiness.
- We believe that fresh, scratch-made food together with unparalleled service and meaningful enrichment programs can transform lives and build community.
- Food service management is what we do, but what we achieve together with our customers, our partners and our dedicated team goes beyond the plate.
