Dining Service Associate - Vail Commons (Davidson)

Dining Services Associate

Dining Services Associate provides general support to a fast paced, busy, and excellence focused dining location. Surrounded by fresh ingredients and the best equipment, you will be immersed in a world that goes beyond food preparation experimenting with different cuisines, flavors, and cooking styles. This is a 9-month, 40 hours per week position and is required to work evenings and weekends.

The work includes preparing and serving food to order. The associate is also responsible for cleaning equipment, serving, dining areas, washing, and storing dishes and pans used during meal service. During the academic year, the dining locations operate seven days a week for the students, guests, staff, and faculty.

Qualifications :

• Good guest service skills and excellent communication and people skills.
• The ability to work a flexible schedule. The dining location is scheduled according to the needs of the students and various events. Work schedules are not fixed as they rotate from week to week.
• Food Handler certified or certification required within 30 days of employment.
• Knowledge of safe food handling and standard sanitation practices preferred.
• This role may have physical demands including, but not limited to, lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, carrying and / or extended walking and standing.
• Food service experience preferred, but not required.
• Guest service experience preferred, but not required.

Job Responsibilities :

Working Conditions

Physical Demands

Environmental Hazards

Lifting Required : twenty-five pounds.

Seasonal Responsibilities : Dining Services Associates may be assigned to work in a different dining unit and there may be limited work available during school holidays and breaks when classes are not in session. Throughout the academic year there are periods of down time when work is not available. Examples of these include winter break and spring break.

Travel Required : Less than 5%.

Night and Weekend Work Required : Yes

Benefits

Information about how to submit an application can be found at https : / / employment.davidson.edu