Food Services Supervisor 9

About the role

The position serves as Food Services Shift Supervisor at a correctional facility with responsibility for directing the work of subordinate staff and prisoner workers during a shift in food service operations.

Responsibilities

• Directly oversee and manage the preparation and serving of three meals daily, including the service of general population meals, religious meals, and therapeutic diets.
• Oversee subordinate staff and train prisoner workers in quantity food service preparation and serving of meals in a prison food service setting.
• Ensure adherence to policy directives, State-Wide menu, operating procedures, nutritional standards, safe food handling practices, proper sanitation, environmental and fire safety requirements.
• Operate in collaboration with custody staff to ensure the safety and security of a correctional facility.
• This is a drug and alcohol randomly tested position.

Requirements

• Four years of experience overseeing a variety of quantity cooking and food preparation tasks, equivalent to a Cook, including three years equivalent to a Cook E6 or two years equivalent to a Cook 7.
• Possession of an associate's degree in dietetics; food services management; hotel, restaurant and institution management; or human nutrition and two years of experience overseeing a variety of quantity cooking and food preparation tasks, including one year equivalent to a Cook E6 may be substituted for the experience requirement.
• Possession of a bachelor's degree in dietetics; food services management; hotel, restaurant and institution management; or human nutrition and no experience may be substituted for the experience requirement.

Qualifications

The Department of Corrections may screen out job applicants who have been convicted of a felony in accordance with Public Act 191 of 2017. Applicants who have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony are ineligible for employment with the Department of Corrections until satisfactory completion of any sentence imposed, including parole or probation.