This position is located in the Dietary Department of the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. A Cook Wage Grade 6 is responsible for performing a wide variety of food service and cooking functions including food preparation, sanitation, and service duties. The incumbent performs tasks with several steps, and routinely follows established patterns of work. The incumbent prepares items for regular and modified diets and identify foods to be served on commonly prescribed diets.

Duties

Sets up and serves cafeteria lines and tray lines with hot and cold food items including breakfast items, entrees, vegetables, soups, sauces, salads, desserts, breads, beverages, and condiments. Assembles and weighs or measures ingredients, and prepares food items such as eggs, breakfast meats, cooked cereals, sandwiches, grill items, vegetables, broiled meats, soups, sauces, gravies, pureed foods, convenience foods, salads, gelatins, fruit cups, and hot and cold beverages. Transports soiled dishes to the dish room after meals. Cleans sanitizes, and stores dishes, trays, and silverware by setting up the dish dishwashing, filling dish machine tanks, maintaining dish machine water and detergent levels, loading, unloading, stacking, and storing dishes and silverware, and cleaning dish machine inside and out. Directs and instructs as necessary Food Service Workers assigned in simpler preparation, service and clean-up activities.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. BASIC REQUIREMENT(S):To qualify for this position you must meet both of the screen-out elements listed below: Ability to do the Work Without More than Normal Supervision: experience and/or training to perform most duties of the Cook, including quantity cooking, on own initiative subject to only intermittent supervision. Prior experience cooking for large groups of people in institutions, such as schools, hospitals or cafeterias is desirable. Technical Practices: this pertains to the knowledge of preparing and serving food for consumption. These screen-out elements are a critical self-assessment of the applicant's experience and are essential for satisfactory job performance. In addition to the Basic Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below. Additional Qualifications In addition to the above, qualifications will also be determined by comparing your application to the responses on the Assessment Questionnaire against the guidelines found in the Job Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations, WG-7404 Series. The questionnaire will assess how your knowledges, skills, and abilities match what the work of the position calls for. The elements are as follows: Work Practices Ability to Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. Knowledge of Materials Attention to Detail You must furnish detailed information on your resume to support your assessment responses to demonstrate that you clearly possess the experience and skills to successfully perform the duties of this position. Time In Grade Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP). You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Education

There are no education requirements.

Contacts

• Address Phoenix Service Unit 1616 E Indian School Rd Suite 360 Phoenix, AZ 85016 US
• Name: Joshua Begoody
• Email: [email protected]