Dietitian Job at Quest Food Management Services
Our Promise
Balance - Quest fosters a fun, supportive environment that puts people first and strives for both culinary excellence and enduring relationships. Our flexible work opportunities encourage a healthy life balance for all of our valued team members.
Meaning - Quest believes that every aspect of what we do has significance, and therefore, our food is fresh and made from scratch, using high quality and responsibly sourced ingredients. We nourish our communities with wholesome meals and through our genuine and personal connections.
Recognition - Quest provides competitive compensation and benefits, and celebrates the fulfillment of our collective values at all levels of the organization. We support professional growth through training, development and access to highly visible leadership.
Position Summary
Responsible for leading the Quest nutrition and guest experience efforts, in order to provide vision, leadership and strategic guidance to the company in these areas. Ensures that Quest vision, values and founding principles are effectively communicated and practiced. Oversee the nutritional aspects of the School Nutrition Program (SNP). The SNP administers the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, After School Snack, dinner program, along with other Federal meal programs and outside contracts. This district has 9 locations and approximately 4,500 students.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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Cascades the vision of Quest Food Management Services ensuring the Quest vision, values and founding principles are effectively communicated, understood and practiced. -
Demonstrates commitment to Quest vision, values and missions through actions on a daily basis.
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Creates a customer-focused climate and provides quality services and support to schools and other stakeholders.
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Develops menus and recipes to meet federal nutrition regulations with input from students, parents, and staff. Manages effective utilization of commodity inventory.
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Manages Smart Snack a la carte program. Researches products, updates product lists, and provides guidance to staff.
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Develops bid specifications for food contracts, ensuring nutritional and budgetary objectives are met. Attends food shows, collaborates with vendors, and conducts student taste testing.
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Handles requests for special diets and allergens, communicating with parents, school personnel, cafeteria staff, nurses, and physicians. Develops customized strategies for each student to ensure safety and program access. Provides carbohydrate counts to nurses and parents for diabetic students. Attends 504 and IEP meetings. Trains cafeteria personnel to meet individual student plan needs.
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Monitors food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation, and quality standards. Enforces standards and makes recommendations for improvement.
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Provides relevant staff training. Monitors performance and surveys staff to identify needed training. Develops and delivers training.
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Organizes implementation of new breakfast delivery methods (in the classroom, cart service, second chance, etc.). Coordinates with principals, cafeteria staff, custodians, and other personnel.
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Leads menu planning and recipe and ingredient management in our proprietary menu management software
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Collaborate with chefs in strategic purchasing initiatives, and the technical nutritional review of ingredients, recipes & menus
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Develop and provide associate training and leads food allergy & medical condition program compliance
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Build and implement student centered nutrition education programs
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Provides leadership for operations and support teams with media & nutrition communications including social media posts
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Conducts internal audits and monitors district compliance with USDA requirements for school breakfast and lunch programs
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Works with the vast number of dietitians within Quest to assist in the development in a variety of programs, including sustainability, taste testing, discovery kitchen, mood boost program and much more
Monday to Friday 7am to 3:30pm
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