Job Description
Benefits:
- No nights or weekends
- Childcare discount
- Recognition programs
- Professional development and CDA reimbursement
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
The Goddard School of South Charlotte
Charlotte, NC | Full-Time | Monday–Friday | Morning to Early Afternoon
Position Overview
The Goddard School of South Charlotte is seeking a dependable, organized, and detail-oriented Kitchen Manager / School Food Coordinator to support daily meal and snack service for our school.
This is not a traditional restaurant kitchen role. Our school does not operate a full commercial kitchen or cook large-scale meals from scratch. This position focuses primarily on meal warming, cold food preparation, snack preparation, fruit and vegetable prep, portioning, food safety, allergy awareness, inventory, and maintaining a clean and organized kitchen environment.
This role is ideal for someone with food service, café, brunch, childcare, school cafeteria, meal prep, or kitchen support experience who enjoys a predictable weekday schedule and a calm, family-oriented school environment.
Schedule
- Monday–Friday
- Morning to early afternoon
- No nights
- No weekends
- Typical workday expected to finish around mid-afternoon, depending on school needs
Key Responsibilities
- Warm and prepare meals according to school procedures
- Prepare simple snacks, fruit, vegetables, and other cold-prep items
- Portion and organize meals and snacks for classrooms
- Follow allergy protocols and dietary restriction procedures carefully
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized kitchen and food prep area
- Receive, label, store, and rotate food deliveries properly
- Track food inventory and communicate supply needs to school leadership
- Follow food safety, sanitation, and childcare food-service requirements
- Support smooth classroom meal and snack delivery
- Communicate clearly with teachers and leadership regarding meal needs, allergies, and daily routines
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is:
- Reliable and punctual
- Clean, organized, and detail-oriented
- Comfortable with simple food prep and meal warming
- Careful with allergies, labels, portions, and sanitation
- Able to follow menus, procedures, and food safety expectations
- Positive, calm, and team-oriented
- Comfortable working around young children in a school environment
- Able to work independently once trained
Preferred Experience
- Food service, school kitchen, childcare kitchen, cafeteria, café, brunch, meal prep, or restaurant support experience
- Experience with food safety, sanitation, inventory, or portioning
- ServSafe certification or willingness to obtain certification
- Experience preparing food for children is a plus
If you are dependable, organized, and looking for a weekday food-service role with no nights or weekends, we would love to meet you.
This Is Your Moment
The joy of childhood comes from those bright sparks of discovery -- moments that delight and surprise us. Your career at The Goddard School can be just as exciting. For more than 35 years, Goddard Schools have put each teacher at the heart of everything we do because teachers put each student at the heart of everything they do. The Goddard School trusts, empowers, and honors its exceptional educators. Develop your teaching skills in a vibrant and nurturing environment and make a difference in children's lives every day.
Each Goddard School location is privately owned and operated by Goddard Franchisor LLC franchisees. The Goddard School franchise owner(s) are the employers at each school, and the franchise owner(s) set their own wage and benefit programs, which vary by location.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Industry | Education |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Website | http://www.goddardschool.com/chicago/plainfield-joliet-theodore-street-il#moreFromThisSchool |
About Company
The Goddard School provides the foundation to encourage a child's lifelong love of learning .In our warm, caring atmosphere, dedicated teachers support the development of children from 6 weeks to 8 years old. Our year round program offers families the choice of either half day or full day schedule.
We are delighted to be the on-site owners of The Goddard School on Theodore Street in Plainfield. We welcome the opportunity for you to join our team by providing the best educational child care for children. Our play-based curriculum taught by our wonderful degreed teachers in a nurturing learning environment, is tailored to meet the social, intellectual, physical and emotional needs of each individual child. We are not a daycare, but rather a preschool with purpose.
Rundy and Karen Wells
Skills
- Allergiesunmatched
- Cafeteriaunmatched
- Childcareunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cook Dishesunmatched
- Dental Insuranceunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Food Deliveryunmatched
- Food Safetyunmatched
- Food Servicesunmatched
- Health Insuranceunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Reimbursementunmatched
- Restaurantunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Sanitationunmatched
- ServSafe Certificationunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Vision Planunmatched
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