Food & Beverage Assistant

Join our fabulous team in the Kavanaghs Bar & Lounge at McWilliam Park Hotel as a Food & Beverage Assistant This represents an ideal opportunity for an innovative, passionate and standards-driven Food & Beverage Assistant, eager to progress his/her career.  The Food and Beverage Assistant’s key purpose is to ensure that all guests of the hotel receive service of the highest standard. The F&B Assistant also plays a key part in ensuring that the outlet to which they are assigned is at all times safe, hygienic, efficient yet welcoming, and operating within budget. The food and beverage team supports and works in partnership with all other departments, ensuring all standards and guest expectations are consistently met or exceeded.    About Us: The McWilliam Park Hotel is a Failte Ireland approved luxurious four-star hotel. The atmosphere is warm and friendly, making it a popular hotel for celebrating special occasions like weddings or to enjoy a romantic break or family getaway.The hotel boasts 103 comfortable large sized hotel bedrooms, a leisure club (Evolve Health & Fitness) with a fully equipped gym, an indoor heated swimming pool and children’s pool. Role/Responsibilities:·  To assist with the setting up of all dining areas.·  To accurately take orders and requests and communicate these to relevant colleagues in the F&B outlets and Kitchen.·  To serve Food & Beverages to our customers within our dining rooms, bar and restaurant, outdoor dining, function rooms and lobby areas as well as occasional room service.·  To collect room service trays and glassware from corridors.·  To ensure that your work areas are kept clean at all times.·  To follow all hygiene regulations.·  To use every opportunity to maximize guest revenue by upselling and needs based selling.·  To ensure all orders, bills and dockets are accurately recorded and presented to kitchen, guest and colleagues at end of shift.·  To ensure all orders you’ve taken have been correctly accounted for and paid before completing each shift.·  To ensure that any ‘open’ cheques or tables are passed over to a colleague before completing your shift. Requirements:  The ideal candidate will possess at least 1 /2 years’ experience in a similar role  Strong work ethic and customer centric mindset required  Excellent written and spoken English requiredExcellent organization and communication skills requiredAbility to learn new information systems requiredResilience and capable of working under pressure a distinct advantage     Perks and Benefits of working at the McWilliam Park Hotel: Very competitive salaryPRSA pension schemeCareer progression opportunities across the Windward groupEmployee Assistance ProgrammeDigital Wellness ProgrammeComplimentary, high quality meals on duty including breakfast, lunch & dinner Complimentary barista-style coffeeDiscounted room & dining rates in Windward properties for you as well as friends and familyRefer-a-friend schemeTraining and development opportunities dedicated to your developmentEmployee awards & staff recognition scheme including employee of the month, long service awards, team recognition days and random treat daysCycle-to-work scheme  About Windward Management: McWilliam Park Hotel is managed by Windward Management. Windward Management is a team of highly experienced hotel operators and investors with a hotel portfolio of approx. 2,000 employees in Ireland and Continental Europe. Founded in 2007, Windward is a leading hospitality management company, managing and operating hotels on behalf of their owners.  Join Us Today as a Food & Beverage Assistant!