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AIP is looking for a Food Service Worker to work in Brownsville, TX. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!
**Responsibilities**
+ Serves as a kitchen worker in a large industrial detention center kitchen performing or assisting with the following duties under supervision:
+ Preparation and presentation of meals: measuring, mixing, slicing, chopping, etc.
+ Using prepared ingredients and following repetitive steps, prepares certain routine menu items, e.g., sandwiches
+ Plating accurately measured portions in accordance with dietician certified menus
+ Delivery and serving meals to detainees in housing units
+ Packs sack lunches and deliver to processing hold rooms and transportation
+ Plates, wraps, and serves staff meals
+ Drives box truck for delivery of meals to housing units
+ Receives food orders, unloads trucks, and stocks food stores for dry, cold, and freezer
+ Either manually or with use of mechanical machines, washes dishes (e.g., plates, bowls, cups, flatware) and food prep items (e.g., pots, pans, trays, baking sheets, serving and cooking utensils)
+ Cleaning dining and kitchen areas floors, tables, chairs
+ Cleaning grease traps and hoods
+ Cleaning storage areas
+ Cleans other facility areas as directed by AIP management
+ Other duties as needed
**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:**
+ Must speak, read, and write fluent English
+ Possess ability to read and follow instructions and recipes in English
+ Possesses dexterity and use of motor skills to execute required kitchen tasks
+ Ability to work with a diverse population, speaking numerous languages with and from different cultures and from various countries around the world
**Core Competencies:**
+ Commitment to Excellence - Identifies what needs to be accomplished and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations
+ Corporate Values - Understands, embraces, and integrates AKIMA corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities
+ Customer Service - Identifies and responds to current and future needs by providing excellent service to internal and external customers
+ Safety and Security - Promotes a safe work environment for co-workers and customers
+ Teamwork - Resourceful team player that builds, strengthens, and maintains collaborative relationships with others inside or outside the organization
**Qualifications**
+ Minimum one-year experience as a Food Service Worker or related position in a commercial or industrial kitchen
+ A high school diploma or GED is required
+ Possess a State of Texas Food Handlers Permit
+ Ability to become First Aid, CPR and AED certified with initial training and maintain certification
+ US citizen or a person lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence and have resided in the U.S. for at least the last five years
+ Possess a high school diploma or equivalent (GED)
+ Pass a criminal background and consumer credit check (no criminal record)
+ Obtain and maintain a DHS/ICE government clearance
+ Pass all pre-employment and random drug tests
+ Pass a medical examination and meet health requirements
+ At least 18 years of age
+ Possess current/valid Texas food handlers permit
+ Knowledge of day-to-day operation of an industrial kitchen
+ Capability of following and understanding written and verbal orders, policies and regulations
+ Incumbent shall be literate and able to interpret printed rules and regulations, recipes, and detailed instructions
+ Incumbent must exercise good judgment, alertness, an even temperament, and render satisfactory performance through his/her responsibilities
+ Ability to maintain poise and self control during situations that involve mental stress, such as fires, explosions, disturbances and building evacuations
+ Maintain a professional personal appearance and calm demeanor
+ Possess a high degree of integrity, accountability and ability to adhere to the American Correctional Association and DHS ICE standards
+ Demonstrate an ability to work with a diverse population of people, including people of different cultures, with different values and lifestyles; with a cross cultural perspective
+ Maintain current/physical residence in the continental United States
**Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands:**
The position is required to work most hours in an indoor detention facility environment, standing and walking most of the time, while maintaining a degree of physical fitness to respond quickly to changes in work demands, emerging situations and emergencies. The position is frequently required to work in extreme weather conditions to accomplish food service delivery outdoors including cold, heat, heavy rain, and winds. At a minimum, the Food Service Worker must be able to perform the following physical activities with or without a reasonable accommodation.:
+ Stand for 4 or more hours between breaks
+ Walk, talk, hear, taste, smell, and feel
+ Use fine motor skills (ability to make movements using the small muscles in hands and wrists)
+ Use manual dexterity in food preparation
+ Use close vision, distance vision, and color vision
+ Reach with hands and arms
+ Work safely on uneven and/or slippery surfaces
+ Occasionally climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
+ Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
+ Provide CPR and first aid to others
**Job ID**
2025-18630
**Work Type**
On-Site
**Company Description**
**Work Where it Matters**
Akima Infrastructure Protection (AIP), an Akima company, is not just another federal management operations contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.
At AIP, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.
**For our shareholders** , AIP provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.
**For our government customers** , AIP delivers the trained personnel, equipment, and processes to safeguard federal assets and provides protective services and detention management operations for critical mission requirements.
**As an AIP employee** , you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.
We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability, or have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us at or (information about job applications status is not available at this contact information).