Food & Beverage Lead Jobs

The Food and Beverage Staff Lead is responsible for providing food and beverage services throughout Thunderbird Entertainment Center locations. Food & Beverage Team Lead is responsible for ensuring that Food and Beverage team members are effectively taking orders, handling monetary transactions, preparing food orders, ensuring food safety, cleaning work stations, following required serving (ABLE) laws, while providing high levels of customer service. Food and Beverage Team Lead will work hours appropriate to meet the needs of the business, which may include nights, weekends, holidays, and special events.

Essential Job Functions:

• Must be able to identify intoxicated patrons for serving beer from grill area.
• Take food and drink orders.
• Ensure that all employees are working effectively.
• Must maintain compliance with health/ABLE/internal Policy and procedures at all times.
• Prepare food items from recipes.
• Pull trash.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time and walk the casino floor as needed.
• Stock work area.
• Clean equipment and work areas.
• Must abide by responsible serving and ABLE laws.
• Ability to handle and count money.
• Any other duties assigned or requested by management.
• Operate cash register.
• Provide a leadership role to all Food & Beverage employees.
• Ensure equipment is turned off when the department is shut down.
• Clean all work and serving areas (including pop machine).
• Assist in scheduling for employees as needed.
• Ability to handle fast paced areas.
• Ensure safety and cleanliness of department at all times.
• Ensure food temperatures are safe levels at all times.
• Prepare food orders.
• Must provide a high level of customer service to all patrons.
• Complete end of shift paperwork.
• Prep equipment and stations.
• Ensure proper portion control.
• Prep and remove frozen items as outlined.
• Ensure proper and legal serving of alcoholic drinks.

Equipment used:

• Grill, Gas or convection ovens, fryers, food slicers, dishwasher, steam table, cash register, computer, credit card machine.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and independently.
• Ability to work in a lead role and be effective
• Ability to function in a professional manner during high stress/volume situations.
• Ability to learn how the grill functions.
• Knowledgeable of Federal/state/Tribal Employment laws and regulations.
• Knowledge and ability to use grills, gas or convection ovens, fryers, slicers, registers and credit card machines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Must maintain compliance with heath/ABLE/internal Policy and procedures at all times.
• Strong problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously; skilled in working in an environment subject to constant interruptions and quickly changing priorities.
• Ability to learn quickly, self-leader with initiative, highly flexible and comfortable in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to make food and drink orders.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to perform basic math functions; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Will assist Food & Beverage Supervisor and Manager with supervisory duties.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, employees must be able to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

• Exposure to smoking and secondhand smoke.
• Must be able to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Noise level can range from minimal to intense.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain liquor license.
• High school diploma (or equivalent combination of education and experience combined).
• Must be able to pass a drug screen, background check, and obtain a key gaming license.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Absentee Shawnee Tribal Members and Indian Preference in filling this vacancy is given to qualified candidates, in accordance with Title 25, US Code Section 472 and 473. Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is a Drug-Free Workplace and an At Will Employer.

Benefits for full time team members:

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Employer paid Medical with Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Employer paid Vision with VSP
• Employer paid Dental with Delta Dental of Oklahoma
• Employer paid Life Insurance