Food Service Manager, Finishing Kitchen

Employment and Social Development Canada; Drummondville; On-site; CAD 46,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Correctional Service of Canada in Drummondville is seeking a supervisor for the institutional kitchen to supervise and train staff, plan daily work, and oversee budgets in a secure environment.

The role requires knowledge of large-quantity meal production and adherence to nutritional, religious and therapeutic requirements, with a focus on maintaining quality and safety in a correctional setting.

Qualifications

• Secondary school diploma or a satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.
• A professional culinary arts diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training, and experience.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and train kitchen staff.
• Plan and organize daily work, schedules, and priorities.
• Manage budgets and control inventories.
• Maintain quality assurance standards.
• Ensure compliance with nutritional, religious, and therapeutic requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Quality Assurance

Regulatory compliance

Education

Secondary school diploma or equivalent

Culinary arts diploma

Tools

Cash registers / POS

Food service software

Job description

Selection process number
2026-PEN-EA-QUE-203707

Salary
$33.08 to $35.98 per hour

Level
GS-FOS-07-Supervisory allowance (C3 - 11,5%) - Inmate training allowance (B2 - 9%) - Correctional Service Specific Duty Allowance (CSSDA) - Bilingual allowance 800$

Who can apply
Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad.

Duties

What you will do:

• Supervise and train kitchen staff.
• Plan and organize daily work, schedules, and priorities.
• Manage budgets and control inventories.
• Maintain quality assurance standards.
• Ensure compliance with nutritional, religious, and therapeutic requirements.

Work environment

• The position to be staffed is located at the Drummond Institution, in an institutional kitchen where regular interactions with offenders are part of the work environment. Because of the responsibilities associated with the position, a physical presence in the workplace is necessary.
• The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is responsible for administering court-ordered sentences of imprisonment of two years or more. CSC manages institutions of various security levels and supervises offenders under conditional release in the community.

Intent of the process
Staffing a position on an indeterminate basis. The pool of qualified candidates could be used to staff similar positions of different tenures (for example, term appointment, deployment, acting appointment, assignment or secondment) within the Correctional Service of Canada.

Positions to be filled
1

Important messages

When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.

Essential and asset qualifications may be assessed using interviews, written tests (in-house or other), reference checks, or a combination of these or other methods. Other sources of information (performance agreements, work samples, knowledge of selection board members, etc.) could be used to assess the criteria identified in the Statement of Merit Criteria. Candidates must meet all essential qualifications listed in the Statement of Merit Criteria to be appointed to a position. A candidate may be appointed to a position without having some or all of the asset qualifications. However, it is preferable to meet these criteria as they can be a determining factor in the choice of who will be appointed.

For this selection process, communications with candidates at the screening and assessment stages will be done by email. The results and the sending of interview invitations will therefore be done by email. Consequently, candidates must ensure that a valid email address is included in their application. It is the responsibility of the candidates to ensure that the address provided is functional, that messages from unknown users are accepted (some systems block these types of emails) and to frequently check their inbox and SPAM/JUNK folders. Candidates must also ensure that the contact information they provide is accurate and updated as necessary.

Candidate must clearly demonstrate in their resume that they meet the essential EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE qualifications. It is NOT enough to simply state that you meet the requirements or provide a list of your current or past responsibilities. Instead, you must clearly demonstrate HOW, WHEN and WHERE you met the requirements by providing concrete examples. Vague statements or simple to-do lists may not establish that you meet the required qualifications. It is therefore important to provide sufficient detail to clearly demonstrate that you have the education and experience you are looking for.

This involves indicating:

• The education you have completed, including the degrees you obtained and the educational institutions you have attended;
• Your relevant work experience, specifying the positions held, the dates of employment, the main responsibilities assumed and the context in which this experience was acquired.

If you do not provide sufficient information, your application will be eliminated. Only candidates whose candidacy clearly demonstrates that they meet the essential qualifications may be invited to subsequent stages of the assessment process. Random or top-down selection may be used to determine who will advance to the next stage of the evaluation process. Supervisor approval is required for assignment, secondment or acting appointment. You must be able to provide your proof of education. You are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of your choice.

Conditions of employment

• Reliability and Security: Reliability Status
• Willingness to work overtime on short notice
• Willingness to work shift work (evening, weekends, statutory holidays)
• Willingness to work with federally incarcerated offenders.

You need (essential for the job)

Your application must clearly explain how you meet the following

EDUCATION:

• A secondary school diploma or a satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test approved as an alternative to a secondary school diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience
• A professional culinary arts diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training, and experience

EXPERIENCES:

• Recent and significant experience in a variety of areas within a food production operation (such as cooking, inventory control, budgeting, scheduling, and operating food services equipment).
• Experience supervising and training employees in a food services operation.
• Experience implementing or maintaining quality assurance program standards

Applied / assessed at a later date

KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of culinary methods and techniques including large quantity meal production
• Knowledge of principles of basic nutrition related to Canada’s Food Guide, religious and therapeutic diet protocols and menu planning
• Knowledge of food services procurement practices and inventory control methods
• Knowledge of workplace safety requirements, hygiene and sanitation practices
• Knowledge of safe lifting and carrying techniques

ABILITIES:

• Ability to manage employees
• Ability to plan and organize work and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to manage a budget
• Ability to effectively communicate orally
• Ability to effectively communicate in writing

Language requirements (essential for the job)

May be applied / assessed at a later date

EDUCATION:

• An Interprovincial Standards Program Red Seal certification – Cook
• Possession of a valid recognized Safe Food Handling Program certification
• A diploma from a food and nutrition management program recognized by the Canadian Society of Nutrition Management (CSNM) or equivalent

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working in a correctional environment
• Supervisory experience working in a unionized environment
• Experience using cash registers or point of sale systems (For positions responsible for Small Group Meal Preparation Program only)
• Experience working in a large volume food production operation
• Experience implementing and maintaining Hazardous Analytical Critical Control Point (HACCP) standards
• Experience using a food services information management software

Our commitment

We're committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please contact the hiring organization below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the population it serves. We promote employment equity and encourage you to self-declare if you belong to one of the designated employment equity groups when you apply.

Selection may be limited to members of the following employment equity groups: Indigenous (Aboriginal) peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and women.

Preference will be given to veterans first, followed by Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of jobs located in Nunavut or Yukon. For positions located in Nunavut, qualified Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement will be appointed first. For positions located in Yukon, qualified Yukon First Nations will be appointed first, followed by qualified Indigenous persons.

We'd like to thank all those who apply. However, only the people selected for further consideration will be contacted.