Industry Supervisor

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Cog3

**Occupation**: Prison and Corrective Services

**Location**: Ararat

**Reference**: VG/0818-MAY2025

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

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We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- ** Lead a team of staff who support prisoners in a vocation training environment to deliver food and laundry services.**:

- **Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity.**:

- **VPS Grade Cog3: $97,563 - $105,427 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an **Industry Supervisor - Catering** to provide a critical role at Hopkins Correctional Centre.

**About the Business Unit**

Corrections Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS). Corrections Victoria's vision is ‘Safer prisons, safer people, safer communities'. Our mission is to have ‘A safer, smarter system with a skilled and supported workforce, that enables people in our care to make better decisions'.

This position is located in Grampians Region at Hopkins Correctional Centre which is a medium security prison housing up to 798 male prisoners with low to medium protection requirements.

**About the Role**

Industry Supervisors are team leaders in the prison environment. The roles require good people management skills, maturity, sound judgement and confidence in decision making, with developed capabilities to coach, mentor and motivate staff and prisoners. With highly developed communication and negotiation skills, the Industry Supervisor leads the industry staff team to achieve program and service outcomes in a multidisciplinary team and rehabilitative environment.

The kitchen/laundry portfolio includes oversight of the prison food service, prisoner self-catering program, events catering and laundry services to the prison and a small group of stakeholders. In addition, the Supervisor is responsible for both the staff cafe and the visit centre café which operate as a commercial enterprise under the umbrella of Corrections Victoria Prison Industries.

All functional areas within the kitchen/laundry portfolio operate as a vocational training environment. The Industry Supervisor supports Industry Officers to coach, mentor and motivate prisoners, placing emphasis upon individual offender management with a view to rehabilitation.

Some of your duties will include:

- In a vocational training environment, train, supervise and support industry officers to work with prisoners in all aspects of the kitchen/laundry operations including prisoner training and assessment, case management, maintenance of professional boundaries and compliance with security management procedures.
- Effectively supervise all work areas to ensure the safety and security of staff, prisoners and visitors. This includes appropriate levels of surveillance and interaction within the facility, and monitoring staff and prisoners for compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety, and security procedures.
- Supervise achievement of commercial production targets and customer expectations, develop and monitor the budget, procure goods and services; ensure security, Occupational Health and Safety and food safety compliance is adhered to.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Experience leading a team in an institutional catering setting.
- Ability to develop, review, and maintain menus that meet dietary requirements and ensure compliance with the Food Act (Act) 1984 and Australia and New Zealand food standards code (ANZFSC) compliance.
- Ability to manage food and laundry services within budget.

**Qualifications/requirements**
- An appropriate trade qualification is desirable along with demonstrated experience in catering or hospitality.
- Certificate IV in Trainingand Assessment (highly desirable).
- The successful applicant will be required to complete Prison Officer Pre Service Training on commencement if not previously completed.

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