Food Service Lead; PCN

What You Will Be Doing:

Train inmates in culinary arts, including food preparation, sanitation, hygiene, safety, and proper use and cleaning of industrial kitchen equipment, while ensuring food serving methods meet the State of Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation standards. Adjust work schedules based on inmate availability, document prepared diets and food items served, and ensure hot/cold food carts are accurately loaded and temperature‑checked before leaving the kitchen.

The Alaska Department of Corrections ensures public safety through secure confinement, reformative programs, and supervised community reintegration. Committed to professionalism and respect, the department upholds the rights of crime victims and treats offenders humanely while promoting daily reform efforts.

Work alongside a diverse and dynamic team of experienced DOC professionals, leveraging their expertise to foster a collaborative and high‑performing environment. Take an active role in developing subordinates by providing tailored training, hands‑on coaching, and meaningful mentorship, empowering them to enhance their skills, grow professionally, and achieve their full potential.

Dynamic, fast‑paced environment that fosters continuous professional growth with opportunities to collaborate with diverse disciplines across the institution. Supportive and positive workplace culture.

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position‑specific competencies:

• Food Production:
  Knowledge of planning, growing, and harvesting of food for consumption using appropriate equipment and techniques.
• Food Service:
  Knowledge of preparing and serving food for consumption.
• Flexibility:
  Is open to change and new information; rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.

This job class is part of a series of competency based class specifications created for career areas within the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit. The class specification identifies the levels of work and wage grades within the career area, the core and specific competencies of the career area, required work behaviors, certifications, and physical requirements. The competency specification for this job class is available at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.

• Resume

• Serv Safe Food Worker Certificate
• List of 3 professional references
• Three most recent performance evaluations.

Starting salary may be approved up to Step D-$26.65, if criteria are met.

If post‑secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs;

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