Food Services Specialist (Assistant Food Service Administrator)

Bureau of Prisons / Federal Prison System; Lompoc (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Bureau of Prisons / Federal Prison System seeks corrections professionals to foster a humane and secure environment by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

Qualified applicants will have at least one year of specialized food service experience, including coordinating mass meal preparation, maintaining sanitation and safety standards, and supervising inmate training activities as part of the Food Service Department.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in food service.
• Experience planning, controlling, and evaluating department operations including budgeting for food service.
• Supervising inmate training activities and evaluating instruction adequacy.
• Coordinating all phases of food preparation to ensure meals are properly prepared and served to all areas.

Skills

Mass quantity food prep

Menu planning

Budget/resource planning

Sanitation standards

Inmate training supervision

Job description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements:

Education:

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this grade level.

Specialized Experience:

You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled. Qualifying specialized experience must have involved preparing and serving food in mass quantities for large groups of people.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are:

• Experience with planning, controlling, and evaluating department operations such as managing budget resources for anticipated and atypical expenses for the Food Service Department; establishing standards of sanitation, safety and security; developing menus and evaluating inmate acceptance of food quantity and quality.
• Experience in supervising and inspecting the inmate training activities carried out by subordinates; making suggestions on technique improvements and evaluating the adequacy of instructions.
• Experience with the coordination of all phases of food preparation to assure meals are properly prepared and served to include such remote areas as Health Services, Receiving and Discharge, and the Special Housing Units.
• Experience in a wide variety of duties which include several specialized programs and functions including medical and religious diets, ethnic food preparation, satellite operations, and warehousing operations; each of which requires some difference in approach, procedures, and techniques.

If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**