Food Service Lead

Alaskajobs; Kenai (AK); On-site; USD 39,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Make a difference

Career development

Excellent benefits

Professional team

Job summary

Wildwood Correctional Center in Kenai, Alaska, is seeking a Food Service Lead to supervise kitchen operations for the facility, including main and satellite kitchens. The role requires ensuring security, safety, and adherence to institutional policies while managing meal production for about 500 individuals per meal.

The candidate will oversee special diets, bakery production, and the verification of menu items with the serving process, maintaining high standards of hygiene and discipline within

Qualifications

• Experience leading kitchen teams in institutional settings.
• Knowledge of safe food handling and sanitation.
• Ability to manage special diets (vegetarian, diabetic, religious, allergen) and bakery production.
• Ability to enforce security and interact with inmates/have authority in correctional kitchen environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead prisoner kitchen teams in meal production for approximately 500 individuals per meal, including main and satellite kitchens.
• Maintain security and control of prisoners while ensuring safety protocols and institutional policies.
• Prepare and verify special diets (vegetarian, diabetic, allergy-conscious, religious, medically prescribed).
• Oversee production and preparation of bakery items served at the facility.
• Ensure ingredients match planned menus and supervise serving process.

Skills

Food Service Leadership

Kitchen Supervision

Dietary knowledge

Safety Protocols

Communication

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Food Service Lead positions at the Wildwood Correctional Center (WCC) located in Kenai, Alaska.

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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:

Wildwood Correctional Center 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of training and/or progressively responsible experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform journey-level work in planning, preparing, and serving food and drink as well as directing and reviewing the tasks assigned to lower-level food service staff.

Essential Core Competencies:

Knowledge of food terminology, measuring devices, kitchen equipment, and serving

information;? and

personal hygiene, general sanitation, and safe work standards to safely use and clean kitchen, food service equipment, and dining area.?

Applicable skill in weighing, measuring, and assembling ingredients to prepare beverages and foods for cooking or

serving;? and

serving beverages and foods in the proper portions, manner and sequence, and with proper table setting techniques.

The ability to communicate effectively with staff and customers, which may include the requirement to read, speak, write, and understand English;? keep records and complete forms following procedures;? recognize produce and food products which do or do not meet quality standards;? meet quality/quantity control, safety, and sanitation standards;? perform tasks in logical sequence;? select guidelines, standards, or procedures appropriate to the task;? do simple arithmetic calculations and record appropriately;? assist in preparing foodstuffs which meet the standards of taste, temperature, appearance, texture, and diet requirements, if applicable to the work assignment;? demonstrate a customer service orientation, and display sensitivity and interest in customer concerns, needs, and limitations;? and adapt to changing conditions, schedules, or meal requirements on short notice.

Position-Specific Competencies:

The lead worker will be required to assign, monitor, train, and evaluate daily tasks;?make decisions and set and balance priorities; coordinate tasks of others and work

efficiently;?

ensure

adherence to work schedules, quality standards,

safety

and security rules;?

give clear instructions;?

recommend

appropriate solutions

to

difficult situations

;?

and

motivate others.?

Additionally:

Applicable skill in preparing and modifying menus and recipes according to volume and dietary needs, or special requirements of emergency crews; and researching recipes and preparing complex foods and yeast pastries such baking and decorating layer cakes and preparing ethnic specialties for special occasions.?

Ability to assign, monitor, train, and/or evaluate daily tasks of kitchen help which may include institutional residents and inmates or emergency fire fighter crew.?

Other Information

Special Note:

Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral prior to posting on Workplace Alaska, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.

Some positions m

ay be required to obtain or possess

a Driver License, a background investigation and employment check, or other.

"Essential Core Competencies" are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of all levels of the career area. These are included in the position description and performance evaluation review process.

"Position-Specific Competencies" are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of the skill level and primary duties of the specific job.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, on-the-job, and military training), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree, apprenticeships, and trade or vocational schools) and short-duration (such as a seminar, professional development, and

mircocredentials

,

i.e., computer science, human resources, project management) programs.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES

Starting salary may be approved up to Step D - $28.20, if criteria are met.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. educati