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Sheriff Correctional Cook/Cook Lead

County of Tulare

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Aug 2026

💰 $58,563/yr($43,372/yr – $58,563/yr)

About the role

Posting number: 26-012730

Department: Sheriff

Job classification: Sheriff Correctional Cook Lead

Posting type: Open

Categories: Food Services, Miscellaneous, Customer Service

Summary

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This recruitment will establish an employment list to fill current and any future vacancies within the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department. The anticipated life of the employment list is six months. If interested in employment for this position or current or future vacancies, please submit an online application for consideration.

Current vacancies are with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department located in Visalia. The anticipated life of the list is six months.

Cook: $3,614 - $4,405 Monthly
Cook Lead: $4,004 - $4,880 Monthly

Please note, our policy contains personal appearance standards which include prohibiting visible tattoos above the collar line or below the wrist. We ask that all applicants be able to meet this requirement.

Examples of duties

Cook:

Cook and oversee the cooking of a variety of foods and special diets.
Schedule adult inmate workers kitchen workers daily assignments.
Make desserts such as cakes, puddings, and pies.
Use a variety of hand and motorized commercial kitchen equipment and machines.
Perform frying, grilling, stewing, roasting, steaming and baking.

In addition to the above, Cook Lead:

Discuss special diets with the Food and Laundry Manager or other higher-level staff.
Train new employees.
Supervise lower-level cooks and adult inmate staff in food preparation.
Perform butchering tasks if required; order produce, meats and staples for jail feeding program.
Account for food and hardware items on an assigned shift.

For a full list of duties for the Cook, please click here.

For a full list of duties for the Cook Lead, please click here.

Essential job duties may be assigned that are not listed above but are relative to this job classification. (Reasonable accommodation will be made when requested and determined by the County to be appropriate under applicable law.)

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum qualifications are used as a guide for establishing the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license which are required and equivalent to the following.

Education: Equivalent to completion of twelfth (12th) grade.

Experience:

Cook:

One (1) year of progressively more difficult and varied cooking and food preparation experience for large numbers of people such as is found in institutional or military cooking.

Cook Lead:

Two (2) years of progressively more difficult and varied cooking and food preparation experience for large numbers of people such as is found in institutional or military cooking, one year of which includes supervisory responsibilities.

Equivalencies for Experience:

Cook:

Two (2) years of progressively more difficult cooking and food preparation work with one (1) year of food related supervisory experience and one (1) year of experience ordering kitchen supplies.

Cook Lead:

Three (3) years of progressively more difficult cooking and food preparation work with two (2) years of food related supervisory experience and one (1) year of experience ordering kitchen supplies.

Knowledge of:

Safe and proper use of commercial equipment and machines commonly found in large kitchens.
Sanitation practices and procedures pertaining to food preparation and kitchen work areas.
Math sufficient to compute percentages, decimals and fractions.
Food industry terminology to order supplies.

See the full list in link.

In addition to the above, Cook Lead: