Preferred Qualifications: Experience within a Colorado State Agency, providing a service or support to a hard-to-serve needs population; Experience providing Supervisory/Work Lead duties in a Correctional, Military or Law Enforcement kitchen; Experience providing Supervisory/Work Lead duties outside of a Correctional, Military or Law Enforcement kitchen; Working in commercial,hospital, or school kitchensettings, utilizing raw ingredients, and following prescribed large scale recipes to create meals from scratch; Working as a baker in a high volume, batch production bakery, following prescribed large scale recipes, monitoring production schedules and maintaining inventory and supply orders; Knowledge of converting food measurements to satisfy smaller or larger recipes; Working as a General Manager, Manager, Assistant Manager, Shift Leader or Team Leader for a national restaurant chain; employment must have included participation in a company endorsed, formal training program for the food production side (back of house) of operations; Experience in Corrections, outside of a correctional kitchen, performing security related duties while monitoring and controlling offenders movement throughout their daily schedules (such as Correctional Officer); Experience creating medical and/or religious meals; Culinary or Hospitality Degree from an accredited, non-correspondence college or vocational school; Serve Safe or other Food Protection Manager Certification. Correctional experience must be security related duties where primary responsibilities throughout a shift, include monitoring and controlling inmate movement throughout their daily schedules, discovering and preventing contraband and responding to emergencies; ensuring proper key/tool/chemical/equipment control, use, storage and accountability; advising inmates in matters concerning work, programs, appropriate behavior and decision making in order to prepare them for successful community re-entry.