Location: Lewiston,ME, USA
The Position
Bates Dining, Conferences and Campus Events is the food service provider for the campus. The department oversees all dining related operations and janitorial duties in Commons. This position primarily performs those front of the house service and building wide janitorial tasks required.
This position calls for someone who has an eye for detail, is a thorough cleaner, understands customer service and possesses the ability to work independently. The ability to work well with others from diverse backgrounds and exemplary organizational, communication and time management skills are a must. This position is on-call and works as needed.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have High School diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Serve Safe certification required.
The ideal candidate will have:
* Previous experience in a collegiate food service environment desired.
* Ability to establish rapport quickly with faculty, students, staff and outside clients staying composed and friendly.
* Commitment to customer service.
* Exemplary organizational and time management skills are a must.
* Ability to multi-task.
* Understand and thrives in a high volume food service environment.
* Creativity and expertise in most facets of food production.
* Personal commitment to excellence and the mission of a top-tier small liberal arts college.
* Demonstrated awareness of, and sensitivity and commitment to diversity and inclusivity and to serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse and inclusive community with diplomacy and tact.
Benefits:
Bates College offers competitive salaries, access to library and athletic facilities, and a supportive, collegial environment in a drug- and smoke-free workplace. This position may accrue leave in accordance with the Maine's Earned Paid Leave law.
About:
Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.
Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion, or national origin.
Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world. Bates engages the forces - intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology - that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.
Bates has highly competitive admissions, graduates over 90 percent of its entering students, and more than half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates employs 200 faculty members and 550 staff.
The college is proud of deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community, Maine's second-largest urban area with a population of approximately 65,000. Bates is located on a beautiful, 133-acre, traditional New England campus in Lewiston, an emerging city with an entrepreneurial climate, a lively arts scene, and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland, 140 miles north of Boston, and 350 miles north of New York City.
Application Instructions
Please submit an online application. You will be asked to provide information about your work history as well as contact information for three professional references. A resume is encouraged, but is optional. This position requires successful completion of a pre-employment background screening and physical.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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