Nutrition Services Culinary Associate

Nutrition Services Culinary Associate JobID: 12693 Position Type: Nutrition Services/Nutrition Services Associate Date Posted: 7/9/2026 Location: Central High School Date Available: 2026-27 Closing Date: 07/14/2026 Additional Information: Show/Hide Job Title: Nutrition Services Culinary Associate Pay Program: Support Staff FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Reports to: Culinary Manager, Nutrition Services Pay Range: CH 6 $17.83 - $20.27 Work Year: 10 Months (176 Days / 4 Hours) VISION: We Fuel Successful Learning. SUMMARY: Operating under the general supervision of the school's Culinary Manager, employee is a member of the school's culinary team working to create and serve scratch produced meals to the District's students. Performs Highly technical scratch food production duties utilizing all components of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and Nourish Colorado Scratch School Meal Initiative. Employee is charged with providing well-balanced nutritious meals per approved USDA & Live Well recipe & production records. Serving high risk populations, school food service activities require the highest degree of customer service skills, production & food safety practices. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Job Duties 1. Using highly technical scratch meal production techniques, employees provide well-balanced, nutritious, and tasteful meals to students. Employee uses a wide range of commercial kitchen equipment including but not limited to food processors, steamers, kettles, immersion blenders, and convection ovens as part of the scratch cooking environment. Cooking skills required include basic cooking principles for prep work, baking, stove top, and knife work. District follows United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) standardized recipes, maintains production records, and incorporates Nourish Co. scratch meal training into employee's daily responsibilities. 2. Serving prepared meals as part of the school's culinary team in a friendly, tactful, and professional manner, employee must adhere to the school's established mealtime schedules and maintain compliance with correct portion size and correct USDA Offer versus Serve regulations. In addition, employee is aware of and follows the USDA Counting & Claiming procedures as part of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act. 3. Ensuring the health and safety of students and staff is paramount as scratch ingredients are used at each site, including raw proteins and produce products, employee must incorporate a high degree of food safety knowledge and procedures. Employee must be knowledgeable of and maintain compliance with all District, Colorado Department of Education, USDA, state and federal laws, statutes and guidelines. Employee is also responsible for monitoring proper food and equipment temperatures using Health Analysis Critical Control Point (HAACP) standards and when necessary taking proper protocols for foods outside the safe range. 4. Focusing on the highest hygiene and sanitation standards, employee performs cleaning tasks including, but not limited to; dishwashing, cleaning and sanitizing all food contact surfaces used for preparation, cleaning all non-food contact surfaces such as floors, shelving, walls, windows, kitchen restroom facilities, laundering of linens, and towels etc. Employee follows all health & safety Vector training. 5. Rotating and cross-training in all scratch meal production and serve stations within the kitchen employee is able to easily adjust and change assigned tasks to ensure food quality, safety, and customer service standards are met. Duties will include point of sale (POS) and time clock computer usage as well as cash handling and daily deposi…