Food Service Worker
About The Position
The Food Service Worker oversees an inmate/detainee worker program within a correctional facility kitchen. This includes creating and implementing orientation forms, training and orientating workers on duties, proper sanitation, and hand-washing procedures. The role involves assigning daily kitchen tasks, supervising inmates/detainees to ensure timely and organized task completion, and providing verbal direction or warnings as needed. Responsibilities also include preparing, assisting, or instructing in food preparation according to departmental standards and recipes, and adhering to facility housekeeping and safety practices. The worker is responsible for checking in deliveries, ensuring correct items and temperatures, and promptly stocking all food and supplies. Additionally, the role involves compiling weekly kitchen inventory, maintaining computer inventory records, managing physical inventory, ordering groceries and supplies, and adjusting menus due to cost fluctuations. The position requires excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, attention to detail, and time management skills, along with the ability to thrive in a high-paced and stressful environment.
Requirements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
Responsibilities
- Oversees inmate/detainee worker program
- Creates and implements orientation forms
- Trains and orientates in their required duties including proper sanitation and hand-washing procedures
- Assigns their daily kitchen tasks
- Supervises the inmates/detainees to ensure they are doing the tasks in an organized and timely manner and delivers verbal direction and warnings when needed
- Prepares, assists, or instructs inmate/detainee labor in the preparation of a variety of food items in accordance with departmental work production standards, standardized recipes, and work instructions
- Follows assigned facility housekeeping and safety practices in all preparation, oversight, and serving of correctional facility meals
- Checks in deliveries ensuring that the proper items are delivered in a timely manner and that the food comes in at the correct temperatures
- Stocks the incoming food and supplies in their proper places
- Stocks all frozen and perishable items immediately upon delivery
- Stocks all other foods and supplies within an hour of delivery
- Compiles weekly kitchen inventory
- Records and maintains information in the computer inventory system
- Maintains a current physical inventory of all food and supplies that need to be ordered
- Orders groceries and other kitchen supplies
- Adjusts menu if needed due to the increased cost of food
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
