Cook

** Cook**

**Department of Veterans Affairs**

**Location**

1 vacancy in the following location:

** Relocation expenses reimbursed**

No

** Telework eligible**

No

**Duties**

** Summary**

Position is located in the Nutrition & Food Commissary at the St. Albans Community Living Center. The Cook/Motor Vehicle Operator will prepare food in an advanced food production unit and serve as driver delivering food to user sites.

**Responsibilities**

Duties can include but are not limited to the following:

+ Perform sanitation checks and maintain equipment.

+ Handle and store food according to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, USDA, FDA and safe serve guideline. Clean equipment, tables and floors on a daily basis or as needed.

+ Wrap final products and affix labels for storage.

+ Portion meat and seasoning for cook tank preparation.

+ Portion raw meat into mixtures for patty formation utilizing automated equipment.

+ Plan, prepare, coordinate the preparation of entire meals using special or difficult recipes.

+ Prepare a variety of food processing or cooking tasks for regular or special diets.

+ Perform yield testing or recipes.

+ Slice, grind, cut foods and weigh ingredients.

+ Mix ingredients from scratch for soups, broths, gravies, sauces and puddings.

+ Cook meats and vegetables, bake a variety of baked goods, cuts or trims meats.

+ Cook a variety of regular or special diet foods and meals.

+ Independently prepare all types of meats, poultry, vegetables, fruits, sauces and gravies for regular and modified diets.

+ Follow standard recipes.

+ Operate gasoline, diesel or electric powered wheel vehicles to haul cargo.

+ Travel over public roads and highways or under cross-county conditions.

+ Operate one or more vehicles which have an approximate gross vehicle weight of 26,000 pounds and up to 32,000 pounds.

+ Work in cold environments with proper cold weather clothing.

+ Safely handle food products up to 40 pounds independently.

+ Safely push containers upwards of 100 pounds into delivery truck. **Work Schedule:** 5:00 AM - 1:30 PM Monday through Friday

**Position Description Title/PD#: Cook/**PD00089A

**Physical Requirements:** Work involves extensive driving to the user sites including loading, transporting carts and off loading deliveries at each user site. Work requires continual standing and walking, frequent stooping, reaching, pushing and pulling and bending. Frequently lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 pounds.

The work is perform in kitchen area which are well lighted but are often hot and noisy. The incumbent is expose to steams, odors and fumes from cooking and to extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigerator or freezing units. There is danger on slipping on wet floors that have been recently moped ot food that has been spilled. Subject to possible cut with knives and burns from steams , hot foods, hot stoves, hot grease and water. Work is also conducted as a driver in the New York Metropolitan Area,

**Travel Required**

Not required

** Supervisory status**

No

** Promotion Potential**

None

**Requirements**

** Conditions of Employment**

+ You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job

+ Subject to a background/suitability investigation

+ Designated and/or random drug testing may be required

+ May serve a probationary period

+ Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

+ A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.

+ Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process ** Qualifications**

**To qualify for this position,** applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.04/09/2021

**EXPERIENCE:** A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the .

**SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT:** Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:

+ Dexterity and Safety

+ Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)

+ Motor Vehicles

+ Technical Practices

+ Work Practices

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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

**Note:** A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. **Education**

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

**Additional information**

The **Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)** and **Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)** provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at .

**Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave:** Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

**This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.**

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an .

** 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.** .Applicants will be accessed in the order in which the applications were received and select any qualified applicant in that order.

**Background checks and security clearance**

**Security clearance**

**Drug test required**

Yes

**Position sensitivity and risk**

**Trust determination process**

Documents Accepted:

+ DD-214/ Statement of Service

+ Disability Letter (VA)

+ License

+ Resume

+ Separation Notice (RIF)

+ SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action

Documents Required:

+ License

+ Resume

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