Cook Specialist II

Job Description and Duties
This position helps operate a brand new commercial-style kitchen 365 days a year, serving morning and evening, hot meals to 80-100 residents. Staff share responsibilities to oversee, teach, train, encourage, and mentor Culinary Crew Corpsmembers.

• Plan, organize, and assist with preparing, cooking, and serving food to Corpsmembers
• Implement a menu of nutritionally balanced meals, including vegetarian and ethnic dishes
• Follow standard food safety practices, including Serve Safe principles and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
• Provide quality food service operations for Corpsmembers; supervise Corpsmembers in training to be Corpsmember Cook Specialists
• Maintain a clean, sanitary and safe working environment and educate Cook Specialists and Corpsmembers in sanitation principles, the proper storage of food preparation/handling
• Assist in implementing a Cook Specialist training program with classroom materials, audio-visual aids, tests, evaluations, and certificates
• Deliver educational material, conduct classes, etc
• Respond to emergencies as needed

Working Conditions
Duties will be performed at the brand new CCC Mendocino Center 600 E. Hill Rd. Willits, CA 95490.
Desk space and computer access is afforded within the Kitchen Office. The Cook Specialist may be called upon to make trips to local stores and food vendors. The trips are usually within the County but may sometimes require planned trips out of the area.

Department Information
Do you want to make a positive impact on youth of California? Do you enjoy the culinary arts? A career with purpose? For the love of cooking, do you like to teach culinary arts? Be the Mentor for the young adults.
Join the team of the California Conservation Corps, Mendocino Center as a full time Cook Specialist I/II. Choose a career with purpose that makes a positive impact while instilling the love for cooking and food service on the youth of California.

Special Requirements

• Medical Exam – a medical clearance examination is required for this classification.

Desirable Qualifications
In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

• Sympathetic understanding of and willingness to work with young adults; supervisory ability; personal cleanliness; good sense of smell and taste.
• A desire to make a significant, positive difference in the lives of the youth of the State.
• A strong sense of the values of integrity, honor, loyalty, and professionalism.
• Exhibit strength in character; respect the chain of command; possess unquestionable ethics.

Benefits
There are many benefits to joining our team! Some benefits include:

• Medical Benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid Holidays and leave
• Defined benefit retirement program
• Savings Plus Program (401(k), 457)
• Employee Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical/Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts

Equal Opportunity Employer
The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
It is an objective of the State of California to achieve a drug-free work place. Any applicant for state employment will be expected to behave in accordance with this objective because the use of illegal drugs is inconsistent with the law of the State, the rules governing Civil Service, and the special trust placed in public servants.