Student Nutrition Services Operator

Student Nutrition Services Operator

Location: Anderson School District 1 Powdersville Elementary, Williamston, South Carolina

Job : 5504706
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: Jan 20, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: To Be Determined
Terms of Employment: 180 days
Position Type: Full-Time

Work Hours: Part-time: 4-5 hours/day;
Full-time: 6-7.5 hours/day

Job Title: Operator for Food and Nutrition Services

Function: Perform routine tasks associated with food preparation, serving, and clean up. May also include operating a cash register (POS) for sales. The work involves preparing breakfast and lunch meals for school populations, operating various industrial kitchen equipment used in food preparation, maintaining sanitary working areas, documenting records of food temperatures and amounts, and maintaining inventory in refrigerated and dry storage areas.

• Preferred high school diploma or GED.
• Ability to read and write.
• Ability to follow oral and written communications.
• Ability to learn and follow prescribed preparation, meal service, clean up, sanitation, and safety methods.
• Ability to inventory and record information accurately.
• Ability to lift and move 35 to 50 pounds repetitively.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to adapt to different work environments and interact with a variety of people.
• Personal standards of appearance and dress compatible with those required by DHEC and Anderson School District One, Student Nutrition Services.
• Working knowledge of food service operations.
• Knowledge of basic mathematics and measurement conversions.
• Emotional stability and physical fitness to perform assigned duties.
• Able to wear latex food handler style gloves.
• Able to use food service grade chemicals.
• Ability to work with limited amount of direct supervision.

• Assist in lifting, pulling, pushing, grasping, twisting (including wrists), reaching below and overhead, standing for long periods, squatting, bending, stooping, kneeling, and climbing.
• Maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen and cafeteria areas: wash dishes, clear counters, sweep and mop floors, clean freezers, coolers, and storage areas. Clean kitchen appliances, employee restrooms, and garbage collection area.
• Assist in putting away deliveries and rotating stock safely and efficiently.
• Interact with immediate supervisor, cafeteria staff, delivery drivers, students, parents, teachers, school staff and administration.
• Operate and/or utilize various appliances and equipment such as ovens, stoves, steamers, mixers, dishwashers, tilt skillets, etc., for extended periods of time.

• Conduct duties in a cafeteria/kitchen environment with routine exposure to heat, cold, food preparation equipment and utensils, smoke, and steam.
• Requires ability to work under a degree of stress related to duties that require attention and meeting deadlines.
• Physical demands include lifting/moving items weighing up to 50 pounds and standing for long periods.
• Job requires operation of standard cafeteria/food services equipment.

Cafeteria Manager

• Jeff Dopkins, Director of Student Nutrition Services
• Anderson School District One
• Phone:
• Email: dopkinsjerson
  1.org