Food Service Technician, Alamosa County Sheriff Department

Job Summary

Performs institutional cooking work involving the preparation of a large volume and variety of food. Prepares meat, vegetables, and other foods for Alamosa County Detention Center.

Essential Job Functions

• Familiar with preventive and protective cooking skills.
• Performs assigned duties.
• Responds to changes in dietary needs.
• Supervises trustees in Manager’s absence.
• Familiar with and follows safety practices.
• Studies applicable State and local health regulations, laws, and ordinances with regard to assigned duties.
• Follows departmental policy and procedure.
• Prepares soups, cooks' meat by grilling, frying, boiling, broiling, roasting, deep frying, or barbecuing.
• Washes, stores and cooks' vegetables; prepares salad dressings, salads, and all breakfast items; cuts and wraps meats for future use.
• Makes bread and desserts, including pastries, cakes, and cookies.
• Operates, monitors, cleans and maintains kitchen equipment such as milk machine, dishwasher, fryer, stove, and oven.
• Follows standard recipes for preparation; tests cooked foods to determine if properly cooked and seasoned.
• Serves menu combinations according to menu or special orders.
• Washes dishes and cleans the kitchen and dining area.
• Maintains supply of food, kitchen supplies, cookware, trays, glasses and utensils.
• Wraps and stores leftover food, and restocks salad bar and storeroom.
• Receives and records produce, meat and dairy product deliveries, and assists in ordering the same.
• Show up for work on time and ready to work.

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge: Knows the departmental policy and procedure; knows how to maintain kitchen equipment.
• Skills: Can read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manual; speaks effectively with co-workers and supervisor; can prepare food by grilling, frying, boiling, broiling, roasting, deep frying and barbecue.
• Abilities: Ability to efficiently communicate in English, both written and verbal; ability to work in a Detention Center; ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form; ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs; ability to work schedule to meet all the obligation of the position; ability to work independently or in a team; ability to follow the policies and procedures of the County and the Sheriff’s Office; ability to meet the physical requirements listed below.
• Education and Experience: One-year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Requirements, Work Conditions And Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, extreme cold, and extreme heat.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.