Food Service Lead (PCN 20-4191)
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Must pass a criminal history check.
- Must be fingerprinted.
Responsibilities
- Supervises and trains an inmate work crew in preparing and serving meals for approximately 300 prisoners each day.
- Ensures all food preparation, sanitation, safety practices, and equipment use meet state and departmental standards.
- Oversees preparation of regular and special diets, bakery production, and proper portioning of all meals.
- Receives, inspects, stores, and rotates food stock while maintaining accurate records.
- Enforces security protocols, including controlling access to sharps and monitoring inmate workers.
Benefits
- Regular pay increases
- Comprehensive insurance benefits
- Paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
