Food Service Coordinator (Cook 1)

Franklin County Sheriff's Office; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Supplemental Life Insurance

EAP (no cost)

Life Insurance of $50,000

Job summary

Franklin County Sheriff's Office is seeking a jail kitchen assistant to prepare meals for inmates and oversee helpers in our jail facilities. You will demonstrate proper cooking and measuring methods to inmates and ensure tools are used safely and returned properly.

The role also involves keeping the kitchen clean and logging each meal count, with additional duties as assigned. Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED, be able to lift 50 pounds, and pass a pre-assignment medical exam as

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to pass pre-assignment medical examination.

Responsibilities

• Prepare meals for jail facilities and supervise inmate helpers.
• Demonstrate cooking and measuring methods to inmates.
• Monitor use of cooking tools and ensure proper return.
• Maintain kitchen cleanliness and record meal counts in logs.

Skills

Safety practices

Kitchen equipment operation

Procedural literacy

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Position Description

Prepare food items for meals within jail facilities and oversees inmates assigned to assist with preparation. Demonstrates proper cooking and measuring methods to inmates. Monitors use of cooking tools and their proper return by inmates. Assures cleanliness of work area.

Oversees inmates and assists in washing dishes and pots and pans. Assures that kitchen is kept tidy and in operating order for oncoming cooks. Records each meal count in logbook.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

Additional Requirements

• Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers.
• Ability to pass a pre-assignment medical examination and annual re-examinations per Ohio Administrative Code 5120:1-8-10(G).

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Knowledge of safety practices. Skill in operation of kitchen equipment. Ability to understand system of procedures. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds multiple times per shift.

Unusual Working Conditions

Ability to walk, stand, or sit for extended or intermittent periods of time.

Sheriff’s Office Core Competencies

• Commitment to Organizational Culture: Works with intention to support and promote organizational culture, transforms operational philosophy into action. Emphasizes service, collaboration, and integrity.
• Emotional Intelligence: Self-awareness, expressiveness, empathy, authenticity, sympathy, emotional connection with others to create trust.
• Integrity and Credibility: Walks the talk, knows what's right and does it. Effectively applies values and principles in specific situations. Encourages others to behave with integrity.
• Teamwork and Cooperation: Crossing boundaries, coordinating groups, makes effective use of all available talent, focused on serving the public together.

Corrections Specific Core Competencies

• Analytic Thinking / Problem Solving: Problem solving, on-the-spot decision making, investigations, evaluating reports and statistics, assessing threats, crime pattern analysis, information seeking, and assessing people’s abilities.
• Attention to Quality & Order: Maintains or increases order in the environment, values accuracy, and quality, and seek clarity in roles and functions.
• Conflict Management: Respectful, facilitates rather than driving or manipulating, focuses on solutions, focuses on people, and seeks long lasting outcomes.
• Impact and Influence: Communication that gains others’ support, constant interpretation to others, educating others, persuading others who have fixed ways.
• Initiative and Time Management: Self-directed, perseverance, persistence, and sets own goals. Sees the job through.
• Interpersonal Skills / Active Listening: Communicates effectively with others, crosses boundaries, initiates relationships, is focused on serving the public together.

Franklin County Sheriff's Office offers eligible full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance

The following are provided to eligible full-time employees at no cost:

• EAP (no cost)
• Life Insurance of $50,000

More information regarding Franklin County employee benefits offered, can be available upon request or by visiting our website: Click Here.