Food Service Lead PCN 20-Multi

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leads prisoner kitchen workers in the preparation and production of meals for approximately 550 prisoners and 30 staff per meal at Spring Creek Correctional Center in the APS main kitchen.
• Maintains security and control of prisoners in the absence of Correctional Officer staff.
• Ensures meat pulls are consistent with prepared menu oversees actual preparation and serving of food to inmates and staff.
• Ensures that all modified diets are properly prepared for each meal which includes but is not limited to vegetarian diabetic allergy disruptive inmate diets religious diets and other diets as prescribed by the Medical Department.
• Ensures the proper baking and preparation of all breads e.g. sandwich hot dog buns hamburger buns French bread wheat and rye breads as well as the baking and preparation of all pastry items e.g. cakes pies cookies puddings and breakfast pastries.

Our Mission Values and Culture:

The mission of Spring Creek 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. As the State of Alaskas only MaximumSecurity adult male facility we provide confinement for minimum medium and close custody sentenced felons including the states most violent and predatory offenders.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

• Flexible work schedules
• An opportunity to make a difference in peoples 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:

The institution has a capacity of over 500 male inmates and employs approximately 200 staff. This position will be located in one of the three institutional kitchens.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Food Service: Knowledge of preparing and serving food for consumption.
• Food Production: Knowledge of planning growing and harvesting of food for consumption using appropriate equipment and techniques.
• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example technical sensitive controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others attends to nonverbal cues and responds appropriately.
• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing evaluating and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws regulations and guidance.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding friendliness courtesy tact empathy concern and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult hostile or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity race gender disabilities and other individual differences.

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• The community of Seward is nestled against a backdrop of peaks and passes sculpted by Ice Age glaciers; Sewards icefree harbor has long served as a natural gateway to the vast scenic and resource riches of Alaskas huge interior.
• Residents enjoy outstanding outdoor recreation including the Kenai Fjords National Park which is dominated by glaciated landscapes. Exit Glacier is one of the many glaciers in the park and is only a short drive from downtown Seward.
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• Seward is home to the Mt. Marathon Race which is run every July 4th. The race totals 3.1miles and climbs 3022 feet. Top finishers cross the finish line in about an hour.
• Seward schools are second to none with the Seward Elementary School being selected as a 2008 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School.
• The region offers fantastic marine boating fishing and hunting crosscountry skiing bird watching hiking kayaking running and biking and much much more.