The University of Chicago is looking for a Dining Operations Associate to provide oversight for food service operations at the direction of the management team. This role conducts a broad range of operational activities to support the dining program for students, solving routine problems, and works primarily on nights and weekends.
What You'll Do
- Provide support to management in the daily oversight of key functions and employees.
- Assist in ensuring a safe working environment throughout the facility.
- Assist in creating a vibrant and culinary diverse dining program that fosters community.
- Oversee department vehicle maintenance, ensuring appropriate licenses, fueling, and protocol.
- Aid in monitoring facility service requests, work orders, maintenance, inventory, and daily input.
- Aid in scheduling facility preventative maintenance and coordinate contractors to perform work within budget.
- Communicate directly with Campus Facility Services and outside contractors on work orders.
- Monitor Pest Management activities at all dining locations.
- Provide guidance and support for the execution of all catering events.
- Assist with clerical, administrative, or recording work to support department operations.
- Independently provide oversight to the operations, primarily on nights and weekends.
- Visit units daily to assess, monitor, and ensure maintenance of industry compliance standards.
- Assist in the maintenance and servicing of programmatic benchmarks, surveys, goals and objectives.
- Provide oversight of the vendor and directly communicate compliance standards with health department, HACCP, OSHA, and university policies.
- Keep abreast of new concepts, practices, and trends in food service technology in higher education.
- Communicate primarily to internal clients and occasionally vendors.
- Assist in tracking progress and identifying obstacles for project completion.
What We're Looking For
- Vocational training, apprenticeships or the equivalent experience in a related field.
- Knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Nice to Have
- Two or more years of related work experience in hospitality services including restaurants, fast food, catering, or institutional services.
- A culinary background.
- Food service management experience in contract-services, healthcare, campus dining, or high-volume hospitality.
- Previous supervisory experience.
- ServSafe® certification.
Technical Stack
- Microsoft Office Suite 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook)
Team & Environment
You will provide oversight at the direction of the management team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $26.00 - $32.00 per hour
- Meal plan
- Health, retirement, and paid time off benefits
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located on the University of Chicago campus.
The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law.
