AC COOK - WSP

Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla, WA
The Department of Corrections is seeking highly motivated and qualified individual as an AC Cook at Washington State Penitentiary (WSP)

Walla Walla, WA

The Washington State Penitentiary is staff 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. Whether the work is inside a prison, in community corrections, or in an administrative office, the Washington State Department of Corrections professional staff experience a high degree of personal satisfaction knowing they are creating environments in which all incarcerated individuals can learn to make choices that contribute to a safer society.

The Department of Corrections, as a partner in the criminal justice system, enhances public safety, administers criminal sanctions and programs in accordance with the law and provides leadership for the future of corrections in Washington State.

The Washington State Penitentiary is comprised of 4 Close Custody Units, 3 Special Housing Units, 2 Intensive Management Units, 2 Medium Units, 2 Minimum Housing Units and a Hospital. In all, WSP houses approximately 2,000 incarcerated individuals and employees approximately 1,100 staff.

• Perform mathematical calculations, e.g., adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, in converting recipes to determine appropriate quantity of food product required to meet menu requirements and population to be served.
• Ensure adherence to appropriate portion control protocols.
• Check food product during and after preparation, ensuring appropriate quality standards are met and that adequate quantity has been prepared.
• Understand and apply rethermalization of food process/procedures if appropriate.
• Practice and perform progressive cooking techniques used for quality control and to decrease waste within the food service area.
• Follow basic safety practices to preclude hazards and accidents such as slipping on wet floors or where food has been spilled, possible cuts from knives, and being burned from steam, hot foods, stove, hot grease, and water.

• Supervise, train, and instruct offenders in general food services practices including receipt of goods, storage of goods, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
• Supervise and train offenders in preparing special diets (medical or religious) and preparing and setting up satellite trays or carts and serving lines. Service of meals includes segregation trays, service of mainline, preparation and distribution of sack lunches, and lock down meals.
• Supervise, coach, instruct, train, and provide constructive feedback to offenders in the safe handling, operation, care, use, and cleaning of kitchen equipment such as mixers, slicers, grills, steam kettles.
• In accordance with policy, train offenders in the preparation and serving of food, hygiene, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), use and care of equipment per manufacture’s guidelines, and safety hazards (HAZMAT).
• Maintain and model the highest standards of personal hygiene.
• Schedule and organize daily work of offenders.

• Maintain and organize accurate food inventories, and rotate stock items to prevent spoilage and pilferage.
• Receive, store, and distribute raw and pre-prepared or pre-packaged food products in accordance with required standards.
• Complete, monitor, and maintain Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) logs.
• Prepare written reports, manually and by computer entry.
• Mandatory reporting via Incident…