Cook (Supervisor)

Summary

The position is a Cook Supervisor in Nutrition and Food Service at the Manchester VA Medical Center. Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) develops and provides comprehensive evidenced based nutritional services for our Veterans and their families. This position is full time at 40 hours per week.

Duties

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has adopted the Nutrition and Food Service (NFS) Modernization Initiative which is a new model of organizing and consolidating essential Nutrition and Food Service functions and services to the Medical Center. This streamlined and focused approach moves VHA forward in its continuum of providing comprehensive, compassionate, and coordinated care to Veterans.

Duties include but are limited to:

• Incumbent prepares performance requirements and work schedules in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Provides technical direction and training when scheduling work operations with complex work steps and processes.
• Investigates work-related issues such as excessive costs or low productivity and determines causes.
• Implements corrective actions within authority to resolve identified work issues. Recommends solutions to staffing issues, engineering requirements, and work operations directed by other supervisors.
• Develops, documents and evaluates standards of work performance in development of performance plans.
• Observes subordinate employees' work and ability to follow instructions, provides suggestions and guidance as required. Prepares employee annual performance evaluations; recommends employees for Incentive/Special Contribution Awards.
• Interviews applicants for positions in Food Production/Service areas and recommends appropriate selections for hiring, promotion and re-assignments of employees.
• Investigates grievances and complaints per bargaining unit agreements, resolving them where possible, and notifies supervisors of those of sufficient importance or seriousness

Work Schedule: Shifts may vary: 6:00am-2:30pm, 7:00am-3:30pm, 8:00am-4:30pm, 11:00am-7:30pm. Holidays and weekends included.

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Position Description Title/PD#: Cook (Supervisor)/PD99821S

Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Notification:

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• Required to serve one-year supervisory probationary period.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

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