Child Nutrition Associate
Part-timeChesterton, INFull-time / Part-timeSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Child Nutrition Associate supports school food service operations by preparing and serving meals, maintaining kitchen and cafeteria sanitation, managing food and supply inventory, and operating meal-tracking or cash-register systems. The role follows planned menus, USDA guidelines, and HACCP food safety guidelines. The posting describes a school-year schedule with no nights, weekends, or holidays and lists full-time or part-time employment.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,770 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$62–75K/yr83 salary ranges
- Indiana median$13–16/hr27 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 103 open Food Service jobs in Indiana and 3,770 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Indiana
- 7-Eleven17 open
- Cracker Barrel13 open
- American Senior Communities12 open
- Experience
- Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (534 postings).
- Education
- 21 of the 3,770 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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