Food Service Lead (PCN 20-6312)

Posting number: 54580

Department: Corrections

Division: Institutions

Job classification: Food Service, Lead

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Corrections, Food Services

Summary

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead prisoner kitchen teams in preparing and producing meals for approximately 500 individuals per meal at Wildwood Correctional Complex (WCC), including both the main and satellite kitchens.
• Maintain security and control of prisoners while ensuring all safety protocols and institutional policies are followed
• Ensure all special diets are accurately prepared for each meal, including vegetarian, diabetic, allergy-sensitive, religious, and medically prescribed diets.
• Oversee the production and preparation of all bakery items served at WCC.
• Verify that food items pulled match planned menu and supervise the reparation and serving process.
  
  

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The mission of Wildwood Correctional Center is to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders that promotes public safety and provides an opportunity for staff development, and reformative offender programming to ensure safety and efficient resources management.  At Wildwood we strive to provide a positive environment for all staff and offenders leading to a cohesive and productive place to work.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

• An opportunity to make a difference in people's lives
• Career development and training
• Excellent benefits
• Being part of a team consisting of a rewarding group of professionals
  
  

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

WCC is a state adult correctional institution housing inmate of all custody levels. This position works in the kitchens and will interact with inmates daily.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Food Service: Knowledge of preparing and serving food for consumption.
• Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.

Examples of duties

Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.

This job class is part of a series of competency based class specifications created for career areas within the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit. The class specification identifies the levels of work and wage grades within the career area, the core and specific competencies of the career area, required work behaviors, certifications, and physical requirements. 

The competency specification for this job class is available at: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/Classification/pdf/LTC_Specs/FOODSERVICE.pdf

Qualifications

The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and pr