Steward
Company Background
The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit and true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leaves you with an uplifted feeling.
The Standard's irreverent and playful sensibility, combined with a careful consideration of design, detail and service, have established its reputation as a pioneer of hospitality, travel, dining, nightlife, and beyond. The Standard hotels are known for their taste-making clientele, their pioneering design, and their unrelenting un-Standard-ness.
Mission Statement
To create experience by embracing and empowering a diverse collective of team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.
Our Purpose
The Standard’s commitment is to being an anchor for each neighbourhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.
Our promise is to ensure that a stay is an experience and that a memory means making friends and having stories to tell. To understand why it exists, is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, to hideaway, to make believe and to do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.
We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations. It’s WHO WE ARE!
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Job Title: Steward - Full-time
Department: Kitchen
Location: The Standard, High Line
Reporting to: Stewarding Manager/Director of Food and Beverage/FB MOD
Job Purpose: Ensures kitchen work areas (including main kitchen, stewarding department, cafeteria and outlets) and operating equipment including but not limited to cookware, dishware, utensils and appliances are in proper supply, and clean, orderly condition by performing the following duties.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Organize the breakdown area for drop off of dirty wares according to department standards.
- Remove excess food, debris and film from soiled wares before placing them in the dishwashing machine.
- Position wares in designated racks correctly and send through dishwashing machine only when full.
- Clean only designated wares in the dishwashing machine.
- Remove washed wares from dishwashing machine and allow to air dry.
- Inspect the cleanliness and condition of all washed wares and rewash wares not meeting standards.
- Sort, stack and store cleaned wares in designated areas. Handle all wares carefully to prevent breakage and loss.
- Change dishwashing machine water/filters and refill as specified to ensure all wares are properly cleaned.
- Monitor usage of dishwashing machine and chemicals to maximize consumption of water and chemicals.
- Maintain cleanliness and working condition of garbage disposal.
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of work areas throughout shift.
- Breakdown and clean dishwashing machine and work areas following specifications in accordance with department standards.
- Clean and sanitize pots, pans, utensils and other kitchen equipment in accordance to departmental standards.
- Stock kitchen lines with designated cleaned wares, utensils and equipment.
- Clean spills in kitchen and work areas immediately.
- Use designated chemicals, supplies and equipment to clean various floor surfaces (brooms, mops, stripper, buffer, etc.).
- Clean mats according to standards.
- Maintain cleanliness and organization of supply/storage closets; remove trash, wipe down shelves/counters; clean floors; remove items that do not belong and place in correct areas.
- Report any damage, maintenance problems or safety hazards to the supervisor.
- Adhere to all Health Department, sanitation and safety regulations as required by the hotel.
- Organize and restock work areas for next shift as specified in departmental standards.
- Clean refrigerators/freezers, service hallways, service elevators and other items as assigned. Work with chemical and machine repair personnel to repair machine, improve quality or standards, increase productivity or capacity of machine.
- Complete job functions of other departmental positions as assigned.
- Assist in plating up banquet meals.
- Assist in inventories as assigned.
- Assist in setting up banquet functions supplies, according to banquet event function plus supervisor instructions.
Specific Requirements:
Essential:
- Ability to read, comprehend, and carry out instructions, preferably bilingually.
- Have at least 1 to 3 months prior experience in similar position.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide by 10s and 100s. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
- Have organizational skills.
- Have sanitation skills.
- Open availability must be considered.
- The proper means of transportation must be considered.
- Level of experience in a high volume, high-end hotel is recommended but not required.
Physical:
- Move, lift, carry, push, pull, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 50 lb. without assistance.
- Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability, and visual acuity.
- Stand, sit, or walk for an extended period of time or for an entire work shift.
- Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping.
- Remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time.
- Work with sharp objects in a safe manner.
- Will be exposed to hot and cold temperature extremes.
Compensation and Benefits:
- $22.00 per hour
- Excellent and Affordable Health Care coverage
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Pet Insurance
- Up to 104 hours PTO, 56 hours - Paid Protected Time Off (Sick), 32 hours - Unpaid Protected Time Off, 20 hours Paid Prenatal Leave
- 401k - Company matching up to 2% after 1 year
- Employee Discounts on Rooms, F&B, Retail, and The Standard Marketplace
- Employee Meals, Employee Referral Program, Commuter Discounts
- Regular fun staff events and celebrations!