Cook Iii - Shift - Oahu Correctional Facilities

The immediate vacancies are with the Department of Public Safety and located at the Waiawa Correctional Facility and Halawa Correctional Facility
. Shift Work: Applicants MUST BE willing and able to work rotating shifts, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Supervises and participates in cooking activities and is responsible for all cooking operations during an assigned work shift in a kitchen having several cooking stations serving a large number of meals. Responsibility includes supervising one or more Cook II positions; and performing other related duties as assigned.

To qualify, applicants must meet all of the following requirements:

Legal Authorization to Work: The State of Hawaii requires all persons seeking employment with the government of the State shall be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.

General

Experience:

Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience which demonstrated knowledge and skill to perform general quantity cooking duties.

The experience must have demonstrated knowledge of and ability to independently prepare various types of foods using various cooking methods (e.g., cooking meats, fish, and poultry by various processes, such as roasting, baking, broiling, and/or frying).

Quantity cooking is defined as experience in the daily preparation of meals in a restaurant, hospital, school, correctional facility, or other large institution. Experience of this kind may be gained as a cook in a kitchen where large-scale cooking operations are performed and a large number of meals are served daily.

At least one year of experience must have been comparable to the Cook II in State service.

The Cook II is responsible for independently cooking a variety of entrees and other principal meal items; may be responsible for a cooking station in a kitchen having several cooking stations and serving a large number of meals; or may be the cook in a small kitchen and may supervise kitchen and cook helpers.

Non-Qualifying

Experience:

Experience which is limited to serving food, cleaning kitchen areas, washing dishes; or experience limited to only one phase of cooking such as fry-cooking or baking, or to other kinds of work that do not afford the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills of quantity cooking will not be accepted as qualifying for the General Experience requirement.

Supervisory Aptitude: Applicants must possess supervisory aptitude. Supervisory aptitude is the demonstration of aptitude or potential for the performance of supervisory duties through successful completion of regular or special assignments which involve some supervisory responsibilities or aspects of supervision, e.g., by serving as a group or team leader; or in similar work in which opportunities for demonstrating supervisory capabilities exist; or by the completion of training courses in supervision accompanied by application of supervisory skills in work assignments;

and/or by favorable appraisals by a supervisor indicating the possession of supervisory potential.

Substitutions Allowed: Relevant substitutions as described in the Minimum Qualification Requirements will apply.

Other Requirements: All applicants who are conditionally offered employment or conditionally approved for movement into any of these positions shall be subject to drug screening, as required by Federal, State, or local laws or departmental policy; and will be subject to an intensive background check.

Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Requirement: As required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA), Federal law states that "...an agency shall not hire or promote anyone who may have contact with inmates and who:

• Has engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution.
• Has been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse.
• Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to…