Dining Room Waitstaff Team Member

Position Overview: Green Lake Conference Center (GLCC) is seeking a Dining Room Waitstaff Team Member to serve as a front-line representative for the Dining Services Team. This role is responsible for ensuring a high standard of hospitality by providing excellent food service in a professional, friendly, and welcoming manner. This role is essential in ensuring a clean, welcoming, and well-maintained dining environment while assisting guests as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guest Engagement: Greet guests promptly and help those with young children, elderly individuals, guests with disabilities, and others needing support through the cleaning of tables.
• Table & Bussing Duties: Clear and reset dining tables efficiently while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor. Sweep or vacuum dining room floors, maintaining a clean and safe environment. Wash, dry, fold, and store kitchen and dining room linens, including rags and aprons.
• Sanitation & Cleanliness: Follow all sanitation and food safety guidelines to ensure a safe dining environment.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with the Dining Team to monitor food production and ensure an efficient flow of service.
• Equipment Maintenance Reporting: Identify and report any maintenance needs for Dining Services equipment to ensure reliable operation and to minimize downtime.
• Work Area Organization: Maintain clean, orderly, and well-organized areas to enhance workflow efficiency and ensure easy access to supplies. Keep the dining area organized, including straightening chairs, highchairs, and cleaning entry doors/glass as needed.
• Safety Compliance: Follow all safety procedures when handling chemicals, dining items, and operating equipment, ensuring a safe environment for employees, yourself, and guests.
• Communication & Reporting: Effectively communicate with dining staff, fellow team members, and supervisors regarding any incidents, needs, or issues.
• Assisting the Dishwashing Team: Assist the dishwashing team by putting away clean dishes, glassware, silverware, pots, pans, and utensils.
• Other Duties: Perform additional tasks as assigned to support the overall operations of the Dining Services department.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Alignment with GLCCs mission and values
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and perform physical labor, standing, bending, and walking, for extended periods.
• Work in a fast-paced, high-volume kitchen and dining environment.
• Exposure to hot water, potentially slippery floors, garbage disposals, and cleaning chemicals.
• Dependable, responsible, reliable with a cooperative attitude, and a willingness to learn
• Detail-oriented with the ability to work independently, or part of a team, with minimal supervision.
• Prior kitchen, dining, or serving experience is preferred but not required.

Schedule & Commitment:

• Part-time position, with flexible scheduling based on organizational needs.
• Typical work hours are rotating and flexible between 7:00 AM 8:00 PM, SundaySaturday, schedule to be determined based on availability and organizational need.

Key Working Relationships

• The Dining Room Waitstaff Team Member will collaborate with all Dining Services Team Members, and other department staff members, including department directors, volunteers, work groups, and guests.

Why Join GLCC?

• Gain hands-on experience in hospitality operations.
• Work in a beautiful environment while contributing to a Christian hospitality mission.
• Be part of a supportive team that values hard work and stewardship of creation.

If you are detail-oriented, enjoy working in a team environment, and take pride in providing quality service, wed love to have you join our team!

To Apply: For more details, or to apply, please visit the GLCC website, www.glcc.org

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.