Cook II (Lifting & Carrying) - Kapolei, Oahu

About the role

The positions are located at the Hale Hoomalu Juvenile Detention Facility in Kapolei, Oahu. Hours of Work: These positions require work beyond regularly scheduled work hours on short notice to assist with the preparation of meals for a 24 hour/7 day secure detention facility; this may require work beyond 8 hours in a day and/or 40 hours in a work week including evenings, days off and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Performs cooking activities at a cooking station in a large kitchen or has responsibility for all cooking activities in a small kitchen;
• May supervise kitchen and cook helpers;
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

• General Experience: Two (2) years of progressively responsible experience which demonstrates that the applicant has acquired the knowledges and skills necessary to perform general quantity cooking duties.
• Non-Qualifying Experience: Experience which is limited to serving, cleaning, washing dishes, only one phase of cooking such as fry-cooking, or other kinds of work not affording the opportunity to acquire the skills and knowledges of quantity cooking will not be accepted as qualifying.
• Selective Certification Requirement - Lifting & Carrying: All current vacancies require the ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 70 pounds.

Qualifications

Substitutions Allowed: Substitution of Training for General Experience: The completion of a course in cooking or in baking and cooking in a technical school which included a substantial amount of training in quantity cooking as described in this specification, and actual practice in daily cooking may be substituted for one (1) year of the required general experience. The completion of a course in cafeteria management in a technical school which included a substantial amount of training in quantity cooking as described in this specification, and actual practice in daily cooking may be substituted for general experience on a year-for-year basis.

Skills

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Benefits

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Pay

Salary rate effective July 1, 2026.

Schedule

These positions require work beyond regularly scheduled work hours on short notice to assist with the preparation of meals for a 24 hour/7 day secure detention facility; this may require work beyond 8 hours in a day and/or 40 hours in a work week including evenings, days off and holidays.