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Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Prepares all types of food for regular and modified diets;
• Prepares a variety of menu items using several different and complex methods of preparation;
• Follows menus, production sheets, and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed;
• Calculate and determines serving portions from quantities of food issued;
• Prepares and/or coordinates the preparation of entire meals;
• Coordinates the cooking of items prepared by other cooks;
• Prepares food production worksheets from computerized recipe files;
• Maintains accurate food inventories;
• Provides assistance to supervisor in ordering food in accordance with daily and
• weekly menu requirements;
• Follows sanitary food handling procedures; covers, labels and dates food items;
• Cleans, stores and maintains all kitchen utensils, equipment and work areas;
• Advises lower grade food service workers and cooks on tray assembly, plating techniques, practices to maintain temperatures and safety of food, etc.;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Pre-employment physical may be required
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Incumbent is subject to continuous standing, walking, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 lbs. unassisted and occasionally lifts or moves objects weighing more than 40 lbs. with assistance of a lifting device or other workers. Manipulates cumbersome, heavy objects, such as washing stainless steel mixing bowls, pushing heavy carts on casters, operating heavy equipment. Position requires manual dexterity to operate equipment and to handle sharp knives and blades safely. Position requires eye-hand coordination and the ability to concentrate and react quickly.

Position requires performing work in areas of extremes of temperature, such as walk-in refrigeration, freezing units. Work is carried out in kitchen/dish room areas that are often hot, uncomfortable, and noisy. He/she is subject to hazards of cuts, bruises, strains, burns, and falls. Position requires using strong cleaning and sanitizing solutions which may cause skin and respiratory irritation. Incumbent performs work in patient care settings where there may be exposure to contagious disease. Required to wear proper hair covering, disposable gloves when handling food, and proper protective equipment when completing cleaning activities.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Technical Practices
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Work Practices

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.