Waiter

Boardroom Waiter

Your role

You'll be a part of our Catering team based in Melbourne and will work closely with the Front of House Team. Our friendly, supportive and collaborative team is part of the broader Business Operations Department, which covers Concierge, Records Management and Facilities Management.

Our Corporate Catering team prepare a variety of innovative, on-trend food items to enhance the experience of our clients. Our team can accommodate a number of clients events, from a formal breakfast, lunch and dinner to canapés for cocktail events and corporate seminars.

As a Boardroom Waiter in our Catering team you will:

- Manage staff dinners and evening events.
- Provide a professional high end corporate wait service for all boardroom bookings and events.
- Deliver exceptional customer service to all clients and Allens employees.
- Ensure that all dining areas, boardrooms and internal kitchens are professionally presented and cleaned.
- Assist with dishes after staff dinners and evening events.
- Organise and deliver catering for both internal and external functions.
- Promptly clear and refresh dining areas at the conclusion of events.
- Maintain a clean and orderly workspace, including regular cleaning of coffee machines, stocking dishes, and ensuring service items are undamaged and suitable for use.
- Monitor stock levels of all consumables and service items in the kitchen, dining areas and boardrooms.
- Train new staff as needed.
- Assist the team by performing basic administrative tasks.

This is a permanent, full-time opportunity. Working hours are from 12pm to 9pm, Monday through Thursday, and 11am to 5pm on Fridays.

About you

You will have:

- The ability to work well under pressure and in a busy environment.
- Experience working as part of a team providing excellent service to a range of customers.
- A current Responsible Service of Alcohol certification would be beneficial.
- Previous barista experience and knowledge of local and international food and wine varieties is highly desired.
- A desire to learn, grow, network, mentor others.

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include:

- Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration; employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.
- Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.
- Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.
- Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible
- parental leave policy
- 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.
- Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

How to apply?
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At Allens, we've been building legal careers for 200 years; longer than any other firm in Australia. The impact of our people extends to almost every sphere of business, government, the judiciary and the wider legal profession. We continue to provide opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to build outstanding careers and shape the world around them.

Through our alliance with Linklaters, we work in a global network of 41 offices in 26 countries. Our size and global reach provide exceptional opportunities for career development, including both on-the-job learning and formal training and development opportunities.

Our commitment to high performance is balanced with a focus on wellbeing, with a culture that's inclusive, supportive and collaborative. We prioritise