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Bureau of Naval Personnel
Department of the Navy
Location
Annapolis, Maryland
Salary
$22.25 - $25.92
per hour
Type
Closes
March 23, 2026
Job Description
Summary
This job involves preparing and cooking meals for midshipmen at the Naval Academy, including regular dishes, special diets, and desserts, while ensuring food safety and cleanliness.
You'll work in a team following instructions from other cooks and handle tasks like measuring ingredients and operating kitchen equipment.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on cooking experience who enjoys fast-paced kitchen work and pays attention to details like portion sizes and hygiene.
Key Requirements
- Ability to prepare and cook a variety of menu items, including regular, short order, modified diets, and desserts, without more than normal supervision
- Skill in using portion control scales and measuring devices to follow standardized recipes
- Knowledge of maintaining proper food temperatures during holding, transporting, reheating, and serving for quality and safety
- Experience with progressive cleaning techniques, 'clean as you go' methods, and sanitizing equipment and spaces
- Proficiency in food preparation tasks such as peeling, chopping, grinding, slicing, dicing, pureeing, dredging, flouring, or breading ingredients
- Ability to operate, break down, and clean food service equipment
- Capacity to work collaboratively with other cooks and follow verbal instructions
Full Job Description
You will serve as a Cook in the Midshipmen Food Service Division of NAVAL ACADEMY.
Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying.
Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below.
This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job.
Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible.
The Screen-out Element for this position is: The Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision to include: 1) Preparing and cooking a variety of menu items including regular, short order, special modified diet entrees and dessert items; 2) Using portion control scales and measuring devices to apportion individual items according to standardized recipes; 3) Maintaining the proper temperature for foods during holding, transporting, reheating, and serving to assure quality control and food safety; 4) Use progressive cleaning of all gear and clean as you go techniques with equipment and structural spaces.
Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations.
Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Major Duties:
- You will work with various cooks and adhere to their verbal instructions, directions, and recommendations.
- You will weigh, measure, and assemble ingredients for regular and modified menu items.
- You will prepare food by peeling, chopping, grinding, paring, cutting, slicing, dicing, pureeing, dredging, flouring, or breading.
- You will operate, breakdown, and clean food service equipment.
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