Casual Food and Beverage Team Members

• Deliver outstanding customer service at Newcastle’s iconic venues: Civic Theatre, City Hall, and Fort Scratchley
• Multiple casual employment opportunities available
• Varied shifts over days, nights, and weekends across different spaces and styles of events

City of Newcastle (CN) is currently seeking multiple Casual Food and Beverage Team Members to join the team at our iconic venues, Civic Theatre, City Hall, and Fort Scratchley.

As a Casual Food and Beverage Team Member, you’ll work collaboratively in a fast-paced team environment to provide our customers with a first-class experience in live performance, functions, or events. You will have experience in catering, banquet service, or as a bartender and possess the ability to deliver a high level of food and beverage service. Find out more about your new career as a Food and Beverage Team Member here.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide exceptional customer service
• Support colleagues to enable delivery of services at highest possible standards
• Set up and pack down of service areas and event spaces
• Operating and maintaining the allocated food & beverage equipment
• Engage with customers and impart your knowledge of our venues and upcoming events
• Work as part of a team or autonomously in a fast-paced and sometimes high-pressure environment
• Contribute effectively to deliver high standard live performance, functions and events

The essentials you'll need:

• Current RSA certificate
• Demonstrated experience in food and beverage service, specifically in bar and catering operations
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent personal presentation and a positive friendly demeanour
• A commitment to best practice customer experience
• High level attention to detail including the ability to work accurately from a detailed run sheet
• A flexible, positive and hands on approach
• Ability to stay calm under pressure

We can offer you:

• Joining an established and large food & beverage team
• Opportunities to learn and develop your skills across different teams
• Access to corporate fitness program with discount gym membership from $8.60 per week
• Opportunity to work in some of Newcastle's most iconic venues

What’s it like working at the City of Newcastle?

We are focused on making a real difference in our community and achieving our vision of creating a smart, liveable, and sustainable global city.  We are proud to deliver services valued by our community. People come first at the City of Newcastle, which means providing employees with meaningful work and capacity for work life balance. As a large local organisation, CN offers opportunity to develop in your current role, grow into future opportunities and reach your full potential.  

Our organisation’s values are Cooperation, Respect, Excellence and Wellbeing which are underpinned by our behaviours of courage, trust, and pride. Together, our values and behaviours support our decision making, our day-to-day interactions and everything we do. 

We value diversity of thought, and we focus on equity in the workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace culture where everyone feels respected, safe, and valued so they can be themselves and fully contribute their opinions and perspectives to the success of the organisation.

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Interested to know more?

Our people are valued and have access to a range of benefits that help balance life at work and at home. These include flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities and health and wellbeing programs.

CN proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and fosters a culture of diversity and inclusion to represent the community of our Local Government Area. All candidates will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined in the position description. Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where diverse styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected. People from diverse backgrounds (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, and veterans) are encouraged to apply!

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact recruit@ncc.nsw.gov.au for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Application Closing Date: Sunday 21 April 2024.

Remuneration: Casual Food and Beverage Team Member hourly rate of $38.92 (inclusive of 25% loading) + 11% Superannuation. Weekend penalty rates and overtime paid as available.

Contact: Michael Steel – Food and Beverage Coordinator – 02 4974 2163.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.

At CN we understand the skills and attributes veterans can bring to our organisation and highly encourage veterans to apply for suitable roles.