Chief Steward

Full time Kitchen Department

Job Description

Manage Day-to-Day Operations

• Orders and manages necessary supplies. Ensuring workers have supplies, equipment, tools, and uniforms necessary to do their jobs.

• Schedules events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Monitors the inflow of ordered materials and the maintenance of current materials.

• Conducts audit, glass and silver inventories.

• Controls inventories of food, equipment, smallware, and liquor, and report shortages to designated personnel.

• Inspects supplies, equipment, and work areas in order to ensure efficient service and conformance to standards.

• Manages all equipment, glass and silver (e.g., adequate clean supplies of each).

• Supervises employees ability to follow loss prevention policies to prevent accidents and control costs.

• Enforces proper cleaning routines for service ware, equipment, floors, etc.

• Enforces proper use and cleaning of all dish room machinery.

• Ensures all food holding and transport equipment is in working order.

• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

• Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.

• Informs and/or updates the executives, the peers and the subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner.

Lead Steward Team

• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.

• Supervises and manages employees. Manages all day-to-day operations. Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.

• Provides the leadership, vision and direction to bring together and prioritize the departmental goals in a way that will be efficient and effective.

• Ensures and maintains the productivity level of employees.

• Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.

• Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.

• Participates in the management of department's controllable expenses to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.

• Strives to improve service performance.

• Understands the impact of department's operation on the overall property financial goals and objectives.