Description

The Hilton Phoenix Resort at the Peak is looking for a FT Lead Server - Guest Suite Dining to join our amazing Team!

**Hours: AM and PM shifts including weekends and holidays**

**Summary of Benefits**

• Team Member and Family Room Discounts for both Crescent Hotels and Resort and Hilton
• Flexible Schedules
• Career Growth & Development
• Insurance Benefit Available for Full Time Team Members
• PTO Pay – Full Time and Part Time Team Members
• Amazing Recognition Programs/Giving Back – Community Outreach
• Trip Reduction Program – Resort off a Main Bus Line
• Tuition Reimbursement
• $2.00 – Team Member Lunch Program
• $300 Referral Program

Ensure prompt and courteous service to guests and that all guest experiences are distinctively supreme. Assist management with all activities relating to Room Service.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Supervise department staff, ensuring that all orders are rotated among the servers and that guests are satisfied with their orders.
• Set up and deliver all food and beverage orders in accordance with established guidelines, procedures and policies as prescribed by company standards.
• Answers room service telephone and takes guest orders accurately in a helpful, friendly, courteous and professional manner to ensure total guest satisfaction. Upsells sides, desserts and beverages to enhance profitability. Enters order into computerized system and settles check upon delivery of the order.
• Answer calls for pick-up of trays and/or tables and retrieves or directs other Team Members to retrieve items. Respond to guest complaints in a positive manner, negotiate a compromise and implement solution.
• Immediately input order information into point of sale system, allowing kitchen staff to begin preparation; note any special requests clearly. Prints hard copy of check to be presented with order and processes payments for orders. Complies with accounting guidelines regarding receipt of payments, check total verification, tip disbursement, cash drawer and house bank management. Maintains house bank in accordance with
• Communicate with kitchen team and check food before serving it to guest to ascertain that appearance, temperature and portions are correct.
• Conduct floor sweeps and retrieve all food and beverage trays in order to maintain established sanitation guidelines.
• Set up and deliver all VIP amenities.
• Service all hospitality suites in accordance with Banquet Event Orders and established policies and procedure.
• Complete all shift side-work as outlined in the hotel’s operating policies and procedures.
• Respond to customer needs, issues, comments and problems to ensure a quality experience and enhance future sales. Report all communication to immediate shift supervisor.
• Perform all cash handling responsibilities in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform any other job related duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE

Previous Serving experience required, including cash handling / customer service. Experience in hospitality a plus. Ability to effectively read, write and speak English required.

LICENSES OR CERTIFICATES

Ability to obtain Maricopa Health Card (Food Handlers Card) required

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Must have the ability to communicate in English. Self-starting personality with an even disposition. Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times. Can communicate well with guests. Must be willing to “pitch-in” and help co- workers with their job duties and be a team player. Ability to grasp, bend, lift and/or carry, or otherwise, move or push goods on a cart weighing a maximum of 100 lbs., at a continuous schedule. Ability to transport large trays weighing up to 50lbs.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

Customer Satisfaction:

Our customers are what we are about. One of the keys to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with Crescent staff. It is essential that you remain professional at all times, and that you treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances. Every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits:

In order to maintain a positive guest and associate experience, your work habits should always meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance. You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job and ask for help whenever you are not sure how to do something.

Safety & Security:

The safety and security of our guests and associates is of utmost importance to Crescent. Every Crescent associate should adhere to the hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.

NOTE:

This description excludes non-essential and marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of the fundamental job duties. Furthermore, the specific examples in each section are not intended to be all-inclusive. Rather, they represent the typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully. Other job-related duties may be assigned by the associate’s supervisor.

Furthermore, this description is subject to change, in the sole discretion of the Company, and in no way creates an employment contract, implied or otherwise; each associate remains, at all times, an “at will” associate.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)