Corporate Catering Assistant

The Clayton Utz Canberra office is looking for a Corporate Catering Assistant to join our Operations team

The role
In this role you will demonstrate excellence in client service in the delivery of all catering requirements, ensuring a seamless delivery of service for all meetings and client events. You will ensure the service expectations of internal and external clients consistently meet the recognised service level standard.

This is a full time permanent opportunity. Depending on the needs of the team and the firm, there may be opportunities for additional overtime.

Key responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Providing a high standard of food and beverage service and setting for events/meetings in a prompt, professional and friendly manner. This includes a variety of services including coffee service, breakfasts, lunches, cocktail parties, dinners and other VIP functions
• Working the occasional morning or evening functions
• Responsible for meeting rooms to be ready for service
• The opening or closing of the client floor, ensuring all is complete for operations
• Cover reception responsibilities if required
• Other tasks as requested by the Catering Manager or Supervisor

Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role, you will have:

• 1-2 years' experience in a hospitality environment (boardroom experience highly desirable)
• Excellent customer service skills
• A high level of organisational skills
• Experience as a barista or very good coffee skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Flexible in working hours when required
• Knowledge of table setting, especially in a fine dining environment (highly desirable)
• Certification in Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) (highly desirable)

How to Apply?

We prefer to work directly with candidates, if you are interested in this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button or contact the consultant, details below, for more information. Clayton Utz is an inclusive employer that supports flexible work arrangements, please feel free to discuss your flexibility needs with the recruiter for this role.

Consultant Contact Details

Shibanni Dave, (02) 6279 3***

Accessibility and Inclusion

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. Do you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application? If so, please contact the recruiter via the above telephone number or via email to ***************@claytonutz.com.

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Agency submissions

Clayton Utz does not accept agency submissions unless the agency is specifically contacted by a member of the Clayton Utz Recruitment Team. Please do not forward candidate profiles or resumes to Clayton Utz partners, hiring managers or other employees - this will not constitute as an introduction to the firm and Clayton Utz will not be liable for a fee.