Banquet Steward

Northern Quest; Airway Heights (WA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalispel Tribe of Indians at Northern Quest is seeking a Kitchen Assistant/Dishwasher to maintain clean and orderly kitchen areas, wash dishes, pots, pans, and utensils, and ensure sanitary food preparation spaces.

The role requires lifting up to 75 pounds, ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays, and adherence to health and tribal policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• 1–3 months related experience helpful.
• Must be able to obtain Tribal Work Permit and ServSafe health card.

Responsibilities

• Scrapes and washes dishes by hand or in the dishwasher.
• Washes pots, pans and trays.
• Sweeps and mops kitchen floors.
• Washes and sanitizes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and racks.
• Transfers supplies between storage and work areas.
• Cleans and organizes banquet items for setup.
• Maintain consistent attendance and flexibility with hours as needed.

Skills

Problem solving under pressure

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Summary of Functions

Maintains kitchen work areas, restaurant equipment and utensils in clean and orderly condition by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures compliance with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians- Internal Controls, and Northern Quest Policies and Procedures.

• Scrapes food from dirty dishes and washes them by hand or places them in racks or on conveyor to dishwashing machine.
• Washes pots, pans, and trays.
• Sweeps and mops kitchen floors.
• Washes and sanitizes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and racks.
• Segregates and removes trash and garbage and places it in designated containers.
• Steam cleans or hoses out garbage cans.
• Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas.
• Requisition cleaning supplies as needed.
• Cleans and organizes banquet items for set up such as chaffers, plates and utensils.

• Available and willing to work any changes in hours deemed necessary for Business Levels.
• Responsible for maintaining a consistent, regular good attendance record.
• May be required to be a panelist for the Internal Review Hearings.
• This job description does not list all of the duties of this position. You may be instructed by management to perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Experience

• One to three months related experience and/or training helpful; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills & Abilities

• Skill in identifying and resolving problems under pressure conditions.

Education

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).

Other Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tribal Work Permit 1.
• Valid health card or ServSafe equivalent
• Hepatitis A vaccination.

• Work nights, weekends and holidays as required.

Physical Demands

• Requires the ability to lift and/or move objects weighing up to 75 pounds.
• Constantly requires the ability to give and receive detailed information through verbal communication.

• Constantly requires verbally expressing or exchanging ideas of essential instructions accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Constantly requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm.
• Constantly requires repetitive movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods.
• Requires ascending or descending stairs or ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Occasionally requires raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally.
• Requires stooping, which entails the use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Occasionally requires crouching.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to tobacco smoke, moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The worker is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions, which protect from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes, and is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions and wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Hiring Preference

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is an Equal opportunity employer. Consistent with federal law, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians applies Indian preference in employment. It is the policy of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians to give preference in hiring, promotions, and transfers into vacant positions to qualified applicants in the following order: 1) Kalispel Tribal Members; 2) Spouses of an enrolled Kalispel Tribal Member; 3) enrolled members of other Indian Tribes; 4) all other applicants.

General Sign-off & Disclaimers

The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies.

At-Will Employment: Employment with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians is at-will and can be terminated with or without cause, and with or without notice, at any time, either at the option of the employee or the Kalispel Tribe of Indians.

Drug Testing: The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is a drug free workplace. All applicants are subject to drug testing at the time of hire and at unannounced times during employment.

Background Investigation: All candidates and employees may be subject to a background investigation.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.