Address:

Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC) – Eyman
Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI)
1305 East Butte Avenue
Florence, AZ 85132
https://corrections.az.gov/

Salary: $61,585.00 

Grade: 20

Closing Date: 08/05/2025

Join our team and take the lead in managing daily operations at one of our ACI manufacturing centers. In this role, you'll oversee production schedules, ensure quality standards, manage equipment maintenance, and supervise both staff and inmate workers. You'll play a key part in maintaining safety, optimizing processes, and ensuring products meet required specifications. This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who values efficiency, safety, and high-quality outcomes in a dynamic correctional industry setting. This job takes place in a commercial-industrial kitchen.

For further information about the Arizona Correctional Industries, visit: https://aci.az.gov/

- Supervises staff and inmate workers and assists with scheduling
- Trains inmate workers on various production processes and methods
- Provides security by closely monitoring inmate workers' activities
- Ensures the safe operation of machinery utilized in the production process
- Interacts with other department staff, customers, and ACI customer service department
- Approves the quality of products in various stages of the production process
- Calculates and schedules jobs according to their production method in order to complete the job most efficiently and cost-effectively
- Researches and develops more efficient production methods
- Conducts and attends meetings
- Drives on State business
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge of:
- Supervisory and managerial techniques
- Technical and mechanical knowledge applicable to the shop
- Field and equipment maintenance
- Budget management
- Correctional system, ADCRR policies and procedures
- Manufacturing/production techniques and methods
- Quality control techniques
- On-the-job training principles and application
- Prisoner rights and labor relations
- Thorough understanding of personnel, fiscal, and material management principles
- Work scheduling principles

Skill in:
- Operation of machinery
- Leadership, supervision, management
- Communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and analyzing
- Administration, motivation, constructive criticism, and the basic principles of team-building

Ability to:
- Lift/Carry 60lbs
- Push/Pull 60lbs
- Walk/Run 1 mile
- Use calculators and various software applications
- Supervise the assigned inmate work crew
- Understand complex schedule needs and inventory issues
- Work in a prison environment
- Work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

- A minimum of three (3) years of experience in commercial bakery operations or a related food production environment
- Experience with HACCP, Quality Assurance, Food Safety Programs, and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs)
- Certification as a ServSafe Instructor/Proctor
- Educational Background in culinary arts, food science, industrial operations, or related field

Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and a drug test.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R2-10-207.11).

In an effort to maintain a safe environment, all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
- Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
- Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability options
- Exceptional retirement program
- Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans, credit union membership, and a wellness program
- An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

Positions in this classification participate in the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan (CORP).

Current ADCRR Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.

The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling (602) 255-2430. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.