Food Service Coordinator (Cook 1)

Responsibilities

Prepare food items for meals within jail facilities and oversees inmates assigned to assist with preparation.

Demonstrates proper cooking and measuring methods to inmates.

Monitors use of cooking tools and their proper return by inmates.

Affirms cleanliness of work area.

Oversees inmates and assists in washing dishes and pots and pans.

Affirms that kitchen is kept tidy and in operating order for oncoming cooks.

Records each meal count in logbook.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.
• Ability to pass a pre-assignment medical examination and annual re-examinations per Ohio Administrative Code 5120:1-8-10(G).

Qualifications

• Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of safety practices.
• Skill in operation of kitchen equipment.
• Ability to understand system of procedures.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds multiple times per shift.

Unusual Working Conditions

• Ability to walk, stand, or sit for extended or intermittent periods of time.

Core Competencies

• Commitment to Organizational Culture: Works with intention to support and promote organizational culture, transforms operational philosophy into action. Emphasizes service, collaboration, and integrity.
• Emotional Intelligence: Self-awareness, expressiveness, empathy, authenticity, sympathy, emotional connection with others to create trust.
• Integrity and Credibility: Walks the talk, knows what's right and does it. Effectively applies values and principles in specific situations. Encourages others to behave with integrity.
• Teamwork and Cooperation: Crossing boundaries, coordinating groups, makes effective use of all available talent, focused on serving the public together.
• Analytic Thinking / Problem Solving: Problem solving, on-the-spot decision making, investigations, evaluating reports and statistics, assessing threats, crime pattern analysis, information seeking, and assessing people’s abilities.
• Attention to Quality & Order: Maintains or increases order in the environment, values accuracy, and quality, and seek clarity in roles and functions.
• Conflict Management: Respectful, facilitates rather than driving or manipulating, focuses on solutions, focuses on people, and seeks long lasting outcomes.
• Impact and Influence: Communication that gains others’ support, constant interpretation to others, educating others, persuading others who have fixed ways.
• Initiative and Time Management: Self-directed, perseverance, persistence, and sets own goals. Sees the job through.
• Interpersonal Skills / Active Listening: Communicates effectively with others, crosses boundaries, initiates relationships, is focused on serving the public together.

Benefits

The following are provided to eligible full-time employees at no cost:

• EAP (no cost)
• Life Insurance of $50,000

Additional Information

• This position requires working holidays and every weekend.
• Per our policy, employees cannot have hand, neck, face, or head tattoos.
• Employees must be able to comply with the minimum requirement of being able to lift 50 pounds.
• Employees must have at least 3 months experience and/or training in food preparation, sanitation, storage and use of food service equipment in institutional, school or restaurant setting.
• Employees cannot have been formally disciplined by a previous or current employer for attendance or tardiness related problems in the past five years.
• Employees must not have engaged in sexual abuse as described in (A) above, been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse as described in (B) above, been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in (B) above, or been the subject of a substantiated allegation of sexual abuse or sexual harassment or resigned during a pending investigation of alleged sexual abuse or sexual harassment as described in (D) above.

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