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Iowa Department of Administrative Services Correctional Food Service Coordinator in Fort Dodge, Iowa

Correctional Food Service Coordinator

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Correctional Food Service Coordinator

Salary

$47,008.00 - $69,118.40 Annually

Location

Fort Dodge - 50501 - Webster County, IA

Job Type

Full-time

Job Number

24-03696

Agency

252 Corrections - Fort Dodge Correctional Facility

Opening Date

04/29/2024

Closing Date

6/4/2024 11:59 PM Central

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Nancy Strait

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CORRECTIONAL FOOD SERVICE COORDINATOR

Instructs and directs correctional inmates concerning food service operations and work habits to prepare meals for inmates and staff by demonstrating cooking and sanitation methods, modeling proper social and work behavior, and by monitoring and correcting their work.

Enforces personal hygiene rules for inmates to maintain sanitary standards for food service operations through visual observations, verbal instructions, and/or written disciplinary measures.

Issues and controls kitchen tools, equipment, and food supplies for food preparation to maintain security procedures by unlocking refrigerators, freezers and knife cabinets and/or writing information (name, date, time, and article) in the issuance record.

Measures food ingredients to determine appropriate amounts by reading recipes and by using food scales, measuring cups and spoons.

Prepares food items for meals by frying, baking, roasting, etc., as appropriate.

Monitors food temperatures to ensure that foods are served or stored at safe temperatures by reading food thermometers and recording temperatures on charts.

Portions prepared food items on a tray or assembly line to serve the correct amount and type of food by following the diet slips, calorie charts, or verbal instructions and by using the correct serving utensils.

Assembles food items on tray lines to ensure that residents with special diets or under lock-down or protective custody receive designated meals.

Stores leftover food to preserve it for future meals by following written guidelines as to what foods may be preserved, by weighing, dating and labeling food items, and by recording the amount leftover.

Sanitizes kitchen equipment, utensils, floors, walls, counters, tables and/or food carts to comply with state Health Department standards and to prevent food-borne illnesses by following cleaning schedules and by using detergents, floor sprayers, hot water, the three-sink method, and double bucket method.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

The equivalent of two years of full-time work experience in mass food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional food services setting;

OR

an equivalent combination of experience and education substituting thirty semester (or equivalent) hours of accredited college or university coursework in dietetics, nutrition, food management or a closely related field for one year of the required experience;

OR

employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to one year of full-time work as a Cook 1, Cook 2, Baker 1 or Baker 2.

For additional information, please click on this link to view the job description. (https://das.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/hr/documents/class_and_pay/JobClassDescriptions/CorrectionalFoodServiceCoordinator-07237-87237.pdf)

Additional Qualification Requirements

Designated positions in this job class require applicants to obtain the required Commercial Drivers License within a period of time as determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.

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    How many years of full-time experience do you have in mass food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional food services setting?

  • Less than two years of the identified experience

  • Two years or more of the identified experience

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    How many years do you have of a combination of post high school education in dietetics, nutrition, food management or a closely related field AND/OR experience in mass food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional food services setting? 30 semester hours equals one year of experience.

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    Are you a current State of Iowa employee (executive branch)? IF YES - How many months do you have in the classifications of Cook 1, Cook 2, Baker 1 or Baker 2?

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  • 12 months or more in the classifications of Cook 1, Cook 2, Baker 1 or Baker 2

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State of Iowa

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252 Corrections - Fort Dodge Correctional Facility

Address

1550 L St

Fort Dodge, Iowa, 50501

Website

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