Assistant Food Service Manager

LaSalle Corrections; Jonesboro (LA); On-site; USD 57,859,000 - 61,992,000; Full time

Job summary

LaSalle Corrections is seeking an Assistant Food Service Manager at Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, LA. This role oversees daily kitchen operations, ensuring meals meet nutritional guidelines, safety standards, and facility regulations while supervising inmate workers.

You will coordinate training, supervise food preparation, and maintain equipment and inventory. Strong leadership and communication are essential in a high-paced, security-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED completed.
• Completed facility training standards.
• Experience in correctional or institutional food service preferred.
• Supervisory experience with staff or offenders preferred.

Responsibilities

• Train and supervise inmate/detainee workers, including orientation, task assignments, sanitation, safety, and security procedures.
• Instruct and assist with food preparation and service in accordance with standardized recipes, production standards, and dietary requirements.
• Enforce housekeeping, sanitation, safety, health code, and security protocols; conduct regular kitchen and equipment inspections.
• Receive, inspect, and properly store food and supply deliveries, ensuring accuracy, proper temperatures, and timely stocking.
• Monitor and maintain food and supply inventory, complete weekly inventories, order supplies, and control costs and waste.
• Maintain accurate records of food production, temperature logs, cleaning schedules, and inmate/detainee labor.
• Coordinate menu planning and annual reviews with a registered dietitian and support annual food service health inspections.

Skills

Inmate supervision

Food service supervision

Menu planning

Food safety compliance

Inventory control

Communication skills

Time management

Education

High school diploma or GED

Facility training completion

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Jackson Parish Correctional Center | Jackson Parish Correctional Center
327 Industrial Dr
Jonesboro, LA 71251, USA

• On-site


• Rate : $20.86 USD per hour


• First/Mid Officials & Mgr


• Full-Time


• Requisition #: ASSIS002475

Description

Job Summary:

The Assistant Food Service Manager reports to the Food Manager and assists with overseeing the daily operations of the kitchen within the facility. This role ensures meals are prepared according to nutritional guidelines, food safety standards, and facility regulations, while supervising and directing all workers. The Assistant Food Service Manager maintains order and discipline, ensures proper training of inmate workers, and supports rehabilitation through structured culinary work experience.

• Train and supervise inmate/detainee workers, including orientation, task assignments, sanitation, safety, and security procedures.


• Instruct and assist with food preparation and service in accordance with standardized recipes, production standards, and dietary requirements.


• Enforce housekeeping, sanitation, safety, health code, and security protocols; conduct regular kitchen and equipment inspections.


• Receive, inspect, and properly store food and supply deliveries, ensuring accuracy, proper temperatures, and timely stocking.


• Monitor and maintain food and supply inventory, complete weekly inventories, order supplies, and control costs and waste.


• Maintain accurate records of food production, temperature logs, cleaning schedules, and inmate/detainee labor.


• Coordinate menu planning and annual reviews with a registered dietitian and support annual food service health inspections.

Required Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.


• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.


• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.


• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.


• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.


• Working knowledge of bookkeeping practices and business English with good grammatical and spelling, skills, and ability to develop correspondence, reports and operational directives.

Education and Experience:

• Graduation from an accredited senior high school or equivalent or GED.


• Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.


• Wage-earning experience in correctional, commercial, or institutional food preparation or food service management or eighteen months of correctional custody or law enforcement experience.


• Correctional or institutional food service experience preferred.


• Correctional custody or law enforcement experience preferred.


• Experience in the supervision of employees or offenders preferred.

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to satisfactorily perform these essential functions without causing an undue hardship for the employer.

• Long periods of continuous walking and standing.


• Remaining awake and alert while on duty.


• Frequent lifting and carrying.


• Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting.


• Exposure for up to 4 hours or more per shift of humidity, heat, and/or freezing conditions.


• Long periods of continuous standing and walking.

Pay: $20.86

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