Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Serves as the technical and quality expert of culinary standard.
- Analyzes and performs quality improvement tasks for menus and food service arrangements.
- Creates and tests specialized recipes and develops specialized food preparation methods to meet the needs of the Veteran population.
- Creates specialized food service menus, recipes and service techniques offered in a hospital setting to include diets for multiple medical conditions, including modifications in micro and or macro nutrients, food allergies, sensitivities and food consistencies, which are reviewed and approved by the Supervisory Dietitian.
- Provides forecasts of required food items based on advanced understanding of edible portions of yield and waste factors.
- Attends focus groups and implements strategies to closer meet customer desires within clinical parameters, while partnering with Clinical Nutrition Section.
- Serves as lead culinary specialist, researching, advising, training and educating in the advancement of culinary arts for the service.
- Provides budgetary input on food service subsistence needs, advises on future budgetary requests for food service and culinary program advancements.
- Conducts product samplings with vendors, keeps current on new food product availability.
- Identifies new equipment to bring into food service systems, determines equipment replacement schedules and established budget for equipment replacement.
Work Schedule: Sunday-Saturday 05:00AM -08:00PM
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Food Service Specialist
/PD99847S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.
Starting at $80,665 Per Year (GS 11)