Cook

  • NSA Panama City
  • Panama City, Florida
  • Part Time
Cook

Department of the Navy

Commander, Navy Installions

CNRSE Naval Support Activity Panama City N922

Summary

This position is loced the Main Deck within the Morale, Welfare and Recreion Department (MWR) aboard Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida. The purpose of this position is to prepare and cook a variety of foods in quantity, using standard or complex recipes to provide quality food.

Summary

This position is loced the Main Deck within the Morale, Welfare and Recreion Department (MWR) aboard Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida. The purpose of this position is to prepare and cook a variety of foods in quantity, using standard or complex recipes to provide quality food.

Overview

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Accepting applicions

Open & closing des

08/08/2025 to 08/24/2025

Salary

$19.38 to - $22.61 per hour

Pay scale & grade

NA 4

Locion

1 vacancy in the following locion:

Panama City, FL

Remote job

No

Telework eligible

No

Travel Required

Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed

No

Appointment type

Permanent

Work schedule

Intermittent - Must be available for lunch shift (0930-1430) and occasional evening shift (1400-2000); AVG 15-20hrs per week.

Service

Competitive

Promotion potential

4

Job family (Series)

7404 Cooking

Supervisory stus

No

Security clearance

Other

Drug test

No

Position sensitivity and risk

Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determinion process

Suitability/Fitness

Financial disclosure

No

Bargaining unit stus

No

Announcement number

NSAPC-25-12779194

Control number

842899800

This job is open to

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The public

U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Clarificion from the agency

Preference given to qualified Military Spouses relocing under PCS orders who submit all proper documention when applying. This position is open to applicants currently loced in the local commuting area. Commuting area is considered within 50 miles of 32407.

Duties

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Skills and Knowledge

Performs a full range of simple cooking tasks by preparing and cooking items requiring little or no processing such as pancakes, sausage, eggs, hamburgers, and fresh or canned vegetables.

Prepares all forms of hot cereals; broils mes; prepares and cooks concentred or dehydred soups, sauces, and gravies; and makes cold sandwich fillings.

Prepares convenience items such as frozen hash browns, fish fillets, and chicken nuggets.

Prepares and bakes pizza.

Prepares foods by peeling, chopping, grinding, paring, cutting, slicing, dicing, pureeing, dredging, flouring, and breading.

Weighs, measures, and dispenses foods in accordance with portion controls.

Mixes ingredients according to precisely written recipes.

Sets up and replenishes salad bar.

Covers, des, and stores leftovers according to established procedures.

Cleans and maintains equipment and work areas.

Maintains accure food inventories and rotes stock items to prevent spoilage.

Responsibility

Receives assignments in form of written and oral instruction from immedie supervisor who "spot checks" work to ensure it is being performed properly and is available to answer technical questions.

Responsible for the proper use and cleaning of equipment, safety practices, personal hygiene, and conformance with sanition requirements.

Detailed instructions are provided on new or more difficult work.

Work is evalued in terms of quality of food cooked and adherence to instructions and time schedules.

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Conditions of employment

Must meet Federal Employment suitability requirements and successful completion of background investigion. Background investigions are conducted using fingerprint identificion and completion of background inquiry forms.

Must successfully pass the E-verify employment verificion check. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of employment.

You must go through a Personal Identity Verificion (PIV) process th requires two forms of identificion from the Form I-9.

May be required to pass pre-employment examinions.

A valid Ste driver's license is required to opere motor vehicles.

Must have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.

Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.

Must be able to continually stand and/or walk; occasionally stoop, reach, push, pull, and bend.

Must be able to lift or moves objects weighing up to 40 pounds with the assistance of lifting devices or other workers.

Must be able to work in warm and noisy environments (kitchen) which includes exposure to steam, fumes, odors, danger of falling, burns, and cuts.

Will be exposed to extremes in temperures when entering walk-in refrigerors from the warm kitchen.

A positive drug test result for marijuana (or any other drug tested for) will result in withdrawal of the tentive job offer and ineligibility to apply for a position within the Department of Defense for 6 months from the de of the drug test.

Starting May 7, 2025, non-affilied individuals requesting access will need a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or another acceptable form of identificion to access CNRMA Installions. (Review required documents section for more informion.)

Qualificions

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or educion, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being Your resume is the key means we have for evaluing your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they rele to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. All non-government positions identified on your resume must include complete address and to and from des. Government positions must include pay plan, series, grade, to and from des and address of the agency/organizion.

Specialized experience directly reled to the duties described above. Qualifying experience must have been equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression.

Specialized experience must demonstre the following:

Working knowledge of the methods and procedures reling to food preparion in small quantities, and the skill to apply such informion to cook a limited variety of prepared foods.

Ability to read and understand written food service merial such as food labels, standardized recipes, etc.

Ability to perform basic arithmetic computions in multiplying ingredients for a recipe and calculing how many servings.

Knowledge of the characteristics of various foods such as color, flavor, consistency, texture, and temperure cooking time required.

Skill in planning, coordining, and timing sequence of steps required to have all menu items ready for serving specified time.

Knowledge of sanition principles.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment.

As part of the applicion process, you must complete and submit an occupional questionnaire and your RESUME MUST SUPPORT AND VALIDATE YOUR ANSWERS or you may be removed from considerion.

ONLY THE MOST HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL BE REFERRED. IF MANAGEMENT DOES NOT WISH TO SELECT A HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATE, THEY MAY REQUEST A REFERRAL LIST INCLUDING WELL OR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS.

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring and/or appointment eligibility.

PLEASE READ THIS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY TO ENSURE ALL REQUIREMENTS ARE ADDRESSED IN YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE.

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED

NO Payment of Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) is authorized, based on a determinion th a PCS move is not in the Government interest

KEY REQUIREMENTS/CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Males must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

Selectee must be determined suitable for federal employment.

Selectee may be required to successfully complete a probionary period.

Selectee is required to participe in the direct deposit pay program.

Social Security Card is required.

Sisfactorily complete an employment verificion (E-VERIFY) check.

A favorable background is a requirement of this position. Failure to obtain and maintain a favorable background may result in the withdrawal of the position offer or removal.

NOTE: Applicants have the ability to perform an E-Verify Self Check to confirm employment eligibility . Although a Self-Check is not mandory, it can be a useful tool for applicants to find out if there is a problem with their employment eligibility records and resolve any issues before taking a job.

Educion

This position does not have a positive educion requirement.

Additional informion

The Federal government offers a number of exceptional benefits to its employees. Benefits you get to enjoy while working for our TEAM include but are not limited to:

Comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, life insurance, spouse & dependent life insurance, long-term disability, retirement, and 401(k) savings plan, annual and sick leave, tuition reimbursement, etc.).

Stability of Federal Civilian Service

People with passion for doing work th mters

Quality of Work Life Balance

Some positions have special requirements- Position is a non-critical, sensitive, position requiring access to IT II system and/or access to PII. An access Nional Agency Check investigion (ANACI) is required via the SF 86 security form.- Required to submit a Financial Disclosure Stement, OGE-450. Executive Branch Personnel Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7R, Joint Ethics Regulion, ded 23 March 2006.- Salary is dependent on experience and/or educion.- For positions requiring travel more than twice per year, selectee may be required to obtain and maintain in good standing a Government-issued Travel Card for official government travel purposes.

This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies within 90 days of closing de.

The Department of the Navy (DON) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Applicants are assured of equal considerion regardless of race, color, nional origin, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, genetic informion, reprisal, marital stus, political affiliion, sexual oriention, or any other non-merit factor. This agency provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. Applicants with disabilities who believe they may require reasonable accommodions should email their request to ... to ensure proper considerion is given. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion on a case-by-case basis.

This activity is a Drug-Free workplace. The use of illegal drugs by NAF employees, whether on or off duty, cannot and will not be tolered. Federal employees have a right to a safe and secure workplace, and Sailors, their family members, and all other customers have a right to a reliable and productive Federal workforce.

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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.

Benefits

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How you evalued

You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

Your experience is subject to evaluion and verificion against the informion in your resume. The numeric ring you receive is a self-assessment only and is based on your responses to the questionnaire. Do not overste or underste your level of experience and capability. If a determinion is made th you red yourself higher than is supported by your resume, or if your resume lacks sufficient informion, you red accordingly or may be considered ineligible.

All resumes reviewed to determine if they meet the hiring eligibility and qualificion requirements listed in this announcement, and red based on the informion provided in the resume to determine the level of knowledge, skill, and ability, reled to the job requirements. Using the qualificions of the position, a predetermined ring criterion of knowledge, skills, and abilities used for each resume. Best qualified applicants referred to the hiring manager. The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews.

Please note this announcement open until all positions are filled and not every qualified candide may be referred if positions are filled before the final closing des. Candides th apply between the time frames listed below referred in order of applicions received

Applicants th apply between Friday, April 11, 2025 (opening des) and Thursday, April 24, 2025 by 11:59 EST given first considerion. Those are scored highly qualified sent to the hiring official for considerion.

Applicants th apply between Friday, April 25, 2025 00:01 am EST and Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:59pm EST given second considerion. Those are scored highly qualified sent to the hiring official for considerion.

Benefits

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Required documents

Required Documents

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The following documents may or may not be required. Required documents will show a red asterisk during documention upload.

Resume

Include name and contact informion for least three (3) professional references in your resume

Proof of educion (transcripts/copy of degree/high school diploma), if applicable to position requirements.

Proof of certificion, if applicable to position requirements.

If you are a current federal employee, submit your most recent Personnel Action Report (PAR) or SF-50.

If you are a current federal employee, submit your last three evaluions.

APPLICANTS CLAIMING HIRING PREFERENCE: Please ensure your stus is indiced in your USAJOBS account and ALL required documents to claim preference are submitted the time of resume submission.

WHAT ARE PREFERENCES? Preferences are advantages in the candide selection process. Individuals can claim the following preferences:

1. Reemployment Priority List (RPL): Qualifying separed employees shall have priority placement in the NAF activity from which they were separed as a result of a Business Based Action (BBA), when the position has substantially the same duties as the position from which they were separed and it is not a higher grade or employment cegory, provided the position is not being filled by an internal candide.

To claim this preference, you MUST:

Submit a copy of your BBA Separion Notificion indicing eligibility for RPL.

2. Military Spouse Preference (MSP): Qualifying spouses eligible for MSP are spouses of an active duty military member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including members of the Nional Guard or Reserves on active duty. The marriage must have occurred before the military member received official permanent change of stion (PCS) orders to the installion listed above. MSP is applicable only when applying for NAF positions the NF-03 and below and equivalent craft and trade (CT) positions.

To claim this preference, you MUST:

Submit sponsor's PCS orders to installion you are applying for; AND

If you are not indiced as a spouse on the PCS orders, you MUST submit proof of marriage prior to PCS.

3. Veteran's Preference/Gold Star Veteran's Preference: Qualifying military veterans, and spouses/parents of deceased veterans shall be given employment preference over non-preference applicants if they are equally qualified. Preference applicable for positions open to external candides.

To claim Veteran's preference, you MUST:

Submit a copy of your DD-214 (member 4 copy); AND

Submit completed SF15 from the Veterans Administrion (VA); AND

Submit any other supporting documention (disability, official stements, proof of service, etc)

To claim Gold Star Veteran's preference, you MUST:

Submit completed SF-15 from the Veterans Administrion (VA); AND

Submit a legible copy of DD-1300; AND

Submit any other supporting documention (official stements, document of service, court decree, etc).

***Qualifying applicants with preferences are considered in the order listed above. Then all other qualifying applicants are

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

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To begin the process, click on the Apply Online button to cree an account or log in to your existing USA JOBS account.

Applicion process is submitted through your USA JOBS account. Resumes/ Applicions received other than by USA JOBS destroyed and will not be

It is the applicant's responsibility to verify all the informion in their resume and documents; HR will not modify documents submitted by an applicant. All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement and clearly documented in the resume.

Qualificions must be clearly verifiable in your resume. Government positions must include pay plan, series, grade, to and from des, and government agency/department.

Where a first cut-off de is indiced, a selection may be made from the resumes/applicions received as of the specified first cut-off de. Completed applicions (resume, supporting documention, etc.) must be received by 11:59pm Eastern Time on the cut-off/closing de. If more than one resume is received, only the last resume received reviewed.

Please see the "REQUIRED DOCUMENTS" section and review the applicant checklist link to determine if there are other documents you are required to submit. You must submit all required documention or you will not be considered for the position. Failure to submit all the required documention may result in not be considered for the position.

The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 08/24/2025 to receive considerion.

To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion.

To preview the Applicion Questionnaire, please click the following link:

It is your responsibility to ensure your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de.

Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the

To verify or check the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account . Once logged in, the Welcome screen lists your applicions, your applicion stus and the de it was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :

Agency contact informion

Cassandra Ducote

Phone

...

...

Address

NSA Panama City

101 Vernon Ave Bldg 468

Panama City, FL 32407-7018

US

Next steps

All applicants notified regarding their stus by email. Applicants will either be contacted by email for an interview or sent an email of non-selection 3-6 weeks after the announcement closing de. Please notify us if your contact informion changes after the closing de of the announcement. Also, note th communicion is performed via email if you do not read your email, provide an inaccure email address and/ or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communicion th could affect your considerion for this position.

Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Required Documents

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The following documents may or may not be required. Required documents will show a red asterisk during documention upload.

Resume

Include name and contact informion for least three (3) professional references in your resume

Proof of educion (transcripts/copy of degree/high school diploma), if applicable to position requirements.

Proof of certificion, if applicable to position requirements.

If you are a current federal employee, submit your most recent Personnel Action Report (PAR) or SF-50.

If you are a current federal employee, submit your last three evaluions.

APPLICANTS CLAIMING HIRING PREFERENCE: Please ensure your stus is indiced in your USAJOBS account and ALL required documents to claim preference are submitted the time of resume submission.

WHAT ARE PREFERENCES? Preferences are advantages in the candide selection process. Individuals can claim the following preferences:

1. Reemployment Priority List (RPL): Qualifying separed employees shall have priority placement in the NAF activity from which they were separed as a result of a Business Based Action (BBA), when the position has substantially the same duties as the position from which they were separed and it is not a higher grade or employment cegory, provided the position is not being filled by an internal candide.

To claim this preference, you MUST:

Submit a copy of your BBA Separion Notificion indicing eligibility for RPL.

2. Military Spouse Preference (MSP): Qualifying spouses eligible for MSP are spouses of an active duty military member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including members of the Nional Guard or Reserves on active duty. The marriage must have occurred before the military member received official permanent change of stion (PCS) orders to the installion listed above. MSP is applicable only when applying for NAF positions the NF-03 and below and equivalent craft and trade (CT) positions.

To claim this preference, you MUST:

Submit sponsor's PCS orders to installion you are applying for; AND

If you are not indiced as a spouse on the PCS orders, you MUST submit proof of marriage prior to PCS.

3. Veteran's Preference/Gold Star Veteran's Preference: Qualifying military veterans, and spouses/parents of deceased veterans shall be given employment preference over non-preference applicants if they are equally qualified. Preference applicable for positions open to external candides.

To claim Veteran's preference, you MUST:

Submit a copy of your DD-214 (member 4 copy); AND

Submit completed SF15 from the Veterans Administrion (VA); AND

Submit any other supporting documention (disability, official stements, proof of service, etc)

To claim Gold Star Veteran's preference, you MUST:

Submit completed SF-15 from the Veterans Administrion (VA); AND

Submit a legible copy of DD-1300; AND

Submit any other supporting documention (official stements, document of service, court decree, etc).

***Qualifying applicants with preferences are considered in the order listed above. Then all other qualifying applicants are

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

Help

To begin the process, click on the Apply Online button to cree an account or log in to your existing USA JOBS account.

Applicion process is submitted through your USA JOBS account. Resumes/ Applicions received other than by USA JOBS destroyed and will not be

It is the applicant's responsibility to verify all the informion in their resume and documents; HR will not modify documents submitted by an applicant. All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement and clearly documented in the resume.

Qualificions must be clearly verifiable in your resume. Government positions must include pay plan, series, grade, to and from des, and government agency/department.

Where a first cut-off de is indiced, a selection may be made from the resumes/applicions received as of the specified first cut-off de. Completed applicions (resume, supporting documention, etc.) must be received by 11:59pm Eastern Time on the cut-off/closing de. If more than one resume is received, only the last resume received reviewed.

Please see the "REQUIRED DOCUMENTS" section and review the applicant checklist link to determine if there are other documents you are required to submit. You must submit all required documention or you will not be considered for the position. Failure to submit all the required documention may result in not be considered for the position.

The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 08/24/2025 to receive considerion.

To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion.

To preview the Applicion Questionnaire, please click the following link:

It is your responsibility to ensure your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de.

Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the

To verify or check the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account . Once logged in, the Welcome screen lists your applicions, your applicion stus and the de it was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :

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Agency contact informion

Cassandra Ducote

Phone

...

...

Address

NSA Panama City

101 Vernon Ave Bldg 468

Panama City, FL 32407-7018

US

Next steps

All applicants notified regarding their stus by email. Applicants will either be contacted by email for an interview or sent an email of non-selection 3-6 weeks after the announcement closing de. Please notify us if your contact informion changes after the closing de of the announcement. Also, note th communicion is performed via email if you do not read your email, provide an inaccure email address and/ or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communicion th could affect your considerion for this position.

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Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 08/08/2025 to 08/24/2025 Salary $19.38 to - $22.61 per hour Pay scale & grade NA 4 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Panama City, FL Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Intermittent - Must be available for lunch shift (0930-1430) and occasional evening shift (1400-2000); AVG 15-20hrs per week. Service Competitive Promotion potential 4 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number NSAPC-25-12779194 Control number 842899800
Job ID: 488916153
Originally Posted on: 8/10/2025

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