Posting Date
05/12/25
Application Deadline
Open Until Filled
Pay Range
Min Mid Max
$21.50 $25.75 $30.00
Job Type
Unclassified
Department
Sheriff
About the Position
The Food Services Shift Supervisor is responsible for directing the daily operations of an assigned kitchen unit in the County jail facilities to ensure quality and compliance to meet the USDA FDA and HACCP guidelines.
About the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office:
Do you possess integrity strong interpersonal skills and do you have a desire to serve your community We are seeking passionate individuals to join our team with a variety of openings for Civilian Detention and Sworn personnel. The Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (MCSO) invites you to become part of Arizonas leading law enforcement agency where we come together as a team to support and provide public safety.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
We recognize your time is valuable so please apply if you meet the following required qualifications.
Education
- High School Diploma or GED
Experience
- Two (2) years of highvolume food preparation experience.
- One (1) year of lead and/or supervisory experience in a highvolume food service environment.
OR
Combined education and experience qualifications
- Postsecondary education may substitute for the required experience on a yearforyear basis.
Other requirements
- Must possess a valid Arizona drivers license or have the ability to obtain by the time of hire.
- Training with the exception of Arizona drivers license to be provided onthejob: FEMA NIMS IS100 and 700; Safety; Payroll; OSHA; PREA.
- Prior to hiring the Sheriffs Office requires that all candidates pass an extensive background review.
Our preferred candidate has
- Experience supervising inmate workers or staff in a correctional or institutional setting
- Experience working in a largescale food production equipment (e.g. steam kettles tray assembly lines)
- ServSafe Certification or equivalent
Compensation is more than a salary with MCSO:
- Growth and stability since 1871
- Choice of three medical plans starting as low as $70/month
- Holidays 10/year 1 personal day
- Enrollment in Arizona State Retirement System
- Paid sick and parental leaves (birth/adoption)
- 10% discount at KinderCare facilities in the Valley and upcomingMCKids Club to serve County employees and their families exclusively
- MCSO Mentoring program to provide personal and professional growth opportunities for all employees
- Access to free County gyms
- Learn more at Benefits Overview
ESSENTIAL JOB TASKS
The tasks listed are a representation and not an allinclusive list of essential job tasks for this position.
- Provides firstline supervision to Food Service Workers and working inmates.
- Reviews determines and prepares working schedules and priorities of duties within Division and reviews time off requests and approves time in the ADP payroll system.
- Prepares Employee Performance Appraisals regularly and reviews with the employee.
- Directs the preparation of inmate meals ensuring quality and compliance with health and sanitation standards and assigns daily jobs to Food Service Workers and inmate workers.
- Provides continual onthejob training for employees and inmate workers on food handling techniques and methods equipment operation and safety and health standards.
- Inspects facilities on a daily basis to ensure that safety and sanitation standards are met.
- Oversees and ensures that food temperatures meet standards and meals are delivered on schedule.
- Maintains and controls inventory of food and supplies.
- Monitors compliance to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
- Assists with compiling and submission of industrial and OSHA reports on a regular basis.
- Orders and maintains new inventory at an acceptable level.
- Reviews incoming orders and oversees the loading and unloading of food products.
- Implements communicates and documents menu changes.
- Tracks food production statistics and prepares reports for distribution to management.
- Reviews and implements measures to control meal costs.
- Supervises food preparation and production area operation to ensure quality.
- Documents incidents and prepares reports accordingly.
- Performs utensil and inmate headcounts along with contraband searches for each meal.
- Coordinates equipment repair requests and monitors repair service to ensure equipment is repaired in a timely manner.
- Supervises equipment operation and sanitation.
- Conducts security checks and maintains security in food production areas and kitchen facilities.
- Performs computer data entry to complete reports and JMS diets and sends and receives emails.
- Trains employees on various heavyduty industrial food service equipment.
- Ensures menus special diets and religious meals are followed.
- Conducts monthly and annual physical inventories.
- Operates forklift and electric pallet jacks.
- Responds appropriately to minor staff or inmate injuries; follows proper incident reporting protocols.
- Supervises and follows procedures for the Recycle Program.
- Supervises and monitors cleaning chemical usage ensures chemicals are secured and follows OSHA guidelines for chemical safety.
- Supervises inhouse inmate probation visits.
- Transports finished products to the Warehouse.
- Operates variety of heavy duty industrial food service equipment.
- Conducts and/or attends staff meetings.
- Operates a County vehicle.
- Maintains consistent onsite presence and leads by example in a handson leadership role.
Working conditions
Work occurs in a food plant environment in a jail facility. Tasks require manual dexterity to operate heavy duty industrial food service equipment. Position involves teamwork and daily contact with and supervision of adult inmates.
The following environments described are only representative of how the essential job tasks are currently performed or envisioned. As such in order to accommodate a disability or limitation the essential job tasks may be performed in ways other than described on these pages.
Work Environment:
- Indoors in jail environment and rarely outdoors
- In temperatures rarely above 90 degrees and frequently below 40 degrees
- Conditions including use of stairs or ladders chemicals/fumes and wet/damp areas
- Areas with bright or dim lighting and/or high noise levels
Physical Environment:
- Sitting standing and walking
- Driving a vehicle
- Speaking hearing seeing and reading
- Distinguishing colors
- Bending kneeling reaching twisting and crouching
- Wearing protective gear
- Lifting floor to waist forty (40) pounds
- Lifting waist to shoulder of forty (40) pounds
- Lifting shoulder to overhead of eight (8) pounds
- Carrying a weight of forty (40) pounds for a distance of fifty (50) feet
- Pushing/pulling a weight of one hundred (100) pounds for a distance of one hundred (100) feet
Social Environment:
- Managing constant interruptions
- Frequently handling multiple or complicated tasks and changing or unscheduled tasks
- Producing high volume of work
- Working with constant time pressures to complete tasks
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Decision making
- Concentration/vigilance
- Working in a team environment within close proximity to others
- Have regular interaction with inmates
- Ability to deal with environment that is often dangerous
- Ability to handle emergencies on rare occasions
- Overtime or rotating shifts on rare occasions
Knowledge skills and abilities
Knowledge of:
- Fundamentals of dietetics.
- Practices and methods used in preparing cooking and serving food in large quantities.
- Maintaining kitchen equipment.
- Occupational hazards and safety precautions of kitchen areas and equipment.
- Common weights and measures.
- USDA FDA and HACCP guidelines.
Skill in:
- Applying proper sanitation methods.
- Supervising and training food service staff and adult working inmates.
Ability to:
- Order store and inventory large quantities of food.
- Compile statistics and prepare production reports.
- Plan meal preparation and portion control.
- Conduct facility inspections and security checks.
- Maintain accurate accountability logs and enforce all safety standards.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
The Maricopa County Human Resources Department reserves the right to admit to the selection process only those candidates considered to be the most highly qualified. Those selected will be assessed based on the evaluation of listed education and experience. The hiring authority will interview and select the successful candidate from a list provided by Human Resources.
All offers of employment made to new hires and rehires at Maricopa County are contingent upon successful completion of a postoffer preemployment thorough background investigation. A background investigation is conducted on a current employee who changes to a Safety Sensitive Position or one having the potential for serious adverse impact on the integrity or efficiency of the County. These requirements do not pertain to employees of elected officials who undergo background investigation processes administered through their respective offices.
Typically successful candidates are hired at a salary rate up to the midpoint of the range based on relevant experience internal equity and budgetary allowances.
Maricopa County is an EEO/ADA Reasonable Accommodation Employer.
Selection Procedure
Only the most qualified candidates will be considered
Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications
Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile
Must pass a preemployment background and/or fingerprint investigation as required by statute or policy including drug and alcohol testing requirements for positions designated as safetysensitive
Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer.
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