Food Service Lead (PCN 20-4191)

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What You Will Be Doing:

This position supervises and trains an inmate work crew in preparing and serving meals for approximately 300 prisoners each day. They ensure all food preparation sanitation safety practices and equipment use meet state and departmental standards. The position oversees preparation of regular and special diets bakery production and proper portioning of all meals. They receive inspect store and rotate food stock while maintaining accurate records. The role also enforces security protocols including controlling access to sharps and monitoring inmate workers.

Our Mission Values and Culture:

The Department of Corrections is committed to operating safe secure institutions while providing essential services that support the health and well being of those in custody. This position directly supports this mission by ensuring safe sanitary and nutritionally appropriate meals for the prisoner population including those with medical or special dietary needs. By training and supervising inmate workers in a structured safety focused kitchen environment this position contributes to institutional security rehabilitation and daily operational stability.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

There are strong opportunities for career advancement and professional enrichment within our facility across the department and throughout other state agencies. Staff gain valuable experience that supports both personal and career growth in a structured team oriented environment. We offer a competitive compensation package that includes regular pay increases comprehensive insurance benefits and paid time off. This role also provides the meaningful experience of serving your community by supporting the daily operations and well being of those in custody. Joining our team means contributing to a mission driven workplace where your work truly matters.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

This position is located inside a pre trial correctional facility and involves daily contact with prisoners regular supervision of inmate workers and responsibility for maintaining safety and security while performing assigned food service duties. Work is performed in a highly structured secure environment with strict controls on movement tools and equipment and does not require travel.

Who We Are Looking For:

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

• Decision Making: Makes sound well-informed and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action even in uncertain situations to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization self and others; is trustworthy.
• Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers organizes and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy and communicates it by a variety of methods.

This job class is part of a series of competency based class specifications created for career areas within the Labor Trades and Crafts Unit. The class specification identifies the levels of work and wage grades within the career area the core and specific competencies of the career area required work behaviors certifications and physical requirements. The competency specification for this job class is available at in this job class are filled through Union referral except for promotions demotions transfers and emergency appointments.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

• List of 3 professional references from former supervisors

RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES

Starting salary may be approved up to Step D - $28.43 if criteria are met.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The States 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. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience not already documented in your application also provide the employer name your job title dates of employment and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

PREA NOTIFICATION

The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including but not limited to Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders. PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:

• Sexual abuse in a prison jail lockup community confinement facility juvenile facility or other institutions.
• Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force overt or implied threats of force or coercion or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or
• Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.

CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS

Please be aware this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.

FINGERPRINT NOTICE

All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodation auxiliary aides or services or alternative communication formats please call 1- or 465-4095 in Juneau or (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201 Juneau AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

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Jared Finklea
Food Service Supervisor