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Louisiana Department of State Civil Service Food Service Specialist 4-B in New Orleans, Louisiana
Food Service Specialist 4-B
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Food Service Specialist 4-B
Salary
$2,272.00 - $4,089.00 Monthly
Location
New Orleans, LA
Job Type
Classified
Job Number
200176-NOCCA-9-20
Department
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Opening Date
09/20/2024
Closing Date
9/27/2024 11:59 PM Central
Description
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Supplemental Information
This is a .8 of full-time position, working approximately 32 hours per week.
Monday - Friday regular schedule.
NOCCA is open to this being a 10, 11, or 12-month annual position, depending on the candidate's availability.
Additional hours are required for Orientation, Open Studio, Auditions, Grade Nights, Parent/Teacher Conferences, Senior Saturday, Homecoming Events, Graduation, Celebrations, Parent Night, Student Shows and Presentations, and Professional Development days.
Strong customer service orientation while interfacing with students, faculty, vendors, and visitors to the campus.
Reports to the Operations Manager in oversight of breakfast, lunch, and some light catering setup for special events. Enthusiasm for working independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that is characterized by continuous growth.
Preference will be given to candidates with prior food service experience. NOCCA will consider offering above the minimum for highly qualified candidate with exceptional experience, qualifications.
This position is responsible for overseeing the food service operations for student meals (breakfast and lunch) at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), within a fast-paced and diverse work environment. The role includes providing functional supervision to three classified NOCCA positions, specifically in tasks related to meal pick-up, set-up, and required documentation. Please note that while this role provides functional supervision, it does not involve direct supervisory responsibilities.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Maisha Joshua, Human Resources Director
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
2800 Chartres Street, NOLA 70117
504.940.2818
jobs@nocca.com
Minimum Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Two years of food service experience in a commercial, industrial, military or institutional food service operation which involved the actual preparation of food.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
Training in food technology, food service management or in a food service related curriculum in a trade school or technical institute will substitute for the required experience on a month for month basis.
College credit in food and nutrition; dietetics; food service preparation; home economics; or hotel, food service, restaurant or institutional management will substitute for the required experience on the basis of one semester hour for one month of experience.
NOTE:
Preparation of food includes tasks such as cooking; baking; chopping vegetables or fruits; meat cutting/butcher duties; making salads, sandwiches, toast, or desserts; and short-order or fast food cooking such as frying or deep frying. It will not be necessary for classified employees to provide an official job description (SF-3), or to provide percentages of time spent preparing food. Describing food preparation tasks on the application will be sufficient. Experience which involved no food preparation, such as fast food cashiering and serving; or food service worker experience consisting only of serving, tray preparation, cleaning, washing dishes, and/or bussing tables will not qualify.
NOTE:
Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.
Job Concepts
Function of Work:
To prepare and serve specialized food products according to the guidelines of a franchise operation.
Level of Work:
Experienced.
Supervision Received:
General from a Contract Food Service Manager or other higher-level personnel.
Supervision Exercised:
None.
Location of Work:
High School or Universities.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from Food Service Specialist 3 and 4-A by the presence of preparing and serving specialized food products according to the guidelines of a franchise operation.
Differs from Food Service Specialist 5 by the absence of direct-line supervision.
Examples of Work
Prepares fresh produce according to the franchise guidelines.
Thaws, marinates, and portions raw products.
Cooks, fries, sautés, and mixes raw products according to franchise operation recipes.
Properly garnishes food.
Serves food to customers.
Restocks serving line, beverage dispensers, and ice cream machines as needed.
Maintains food temperature and food use records.
Operates cash register and makes change.
Scrapes dishes and utensils, deposits garbage, and scrubs pots and heavy-duty cookware.
Dusts, sweeps, mops floors, and cleans windows.
Collects garbage and trash from work areas as needed and deposits in dumpster for collection and removal.
Cleans and sanitizes garbage containers.
Busses tables in the dining area.
Oversight of all aspects of New Orleans Center for Creative A11s Student Meal program.
Prepares schedule and assignment for civil service employees to pick-up and set-up up meals for service.
Prepares schedule for meal servers.
Provides direct training and assistance to meal servers on federal, state, and local regulations, meal set-up, meal service, and sanitation.
Forecasts number of meals to be served daily and places order with Food Service Provider.
Ensures that meal service is timely and is served as prescribed on menu.
Provides regular feedback on student's food preferences.
Ensures servers are correctly identifying and serving reimbursable meals.
Ensures account operation of the Point of Sale account system (POS).
Maintains inventory of stock for meal services and prepares orders for replenishing stock.
Maintains inventory of Health Snacks and places orders for replenishing stock.
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/
Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave
More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx
Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Mardi Gras,
Good Friday,
Memorial Day,
Independence Day,
Labor Day,
Veteran's Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
* Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):
Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your_Retirement_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system
Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),
Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others
01
How many years of food service work do you have?
A. I have at least 2 years of food service experience.
B. I have at least one
C. I have some, but less than 1 year food service experience.
D. I do not have any food service experience.
02
If you answered A, B, or C to the previous question, please list the employer(s) on your application where you gained this experience. If you answered D, please enter N/A.
03
Do you have a valid Louisiana Class "B" Commerical drivers license?
Yes
No
04
The incumbent of this position may drive a state owned vehicle during work hours. Office of Risk Management prohibits drivers with three or more moving violations in a one year period from operating a state owned vehicle. Based on this information, will you be able to operate a state owned vehicle?
Yes
No
05
Do you have prior work experience ordering food and/or setting schedules for food operations?
06
If you answered Yes to the previous question, in which job(s) listed on your application can this experience be found? If you answered No, please enter N/A.
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State of Louisiana
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For agency contact information, please refer to
the supplemental information above.
Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802
Phone
(866) 783-5462
Website
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm
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