Steward, Hospitality ​/ Hotel ​/ Catering, Dishwasher ​/ Kitchen Assistant

Overview

Under the direction of the Chef, the Steward supports the culinary team by maintaining cleanliness, organization, and sanitation across all kitchen and food service areas. This role ensures that all dishes, utensils, equipment, and work spaces meet strict hygiene and safety standards. Responsibilities include washing and storing kitchenware, assisting with waste management, restocking supplies, and helping maintain an efficient back-of-house operation. The Steward plays a key role in upholding health regulations and enabling the kitchen staff to operate smoothly in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment typical in Osage Casinos venues.

This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all‑inclusive.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent required.
• Must have a minimum of six (6) months of work experience required.
• Basic understanding of sanitation and hygiene standards required.
• Prior experience in a kitchen, restaurant, hotel, or casino preferred.
• Required to pass a pre‑employment drug screening and obtain and maintain an Osage Nation gaming license.
• Required to provide documents to show the applicant is eligible to work in the United States.
• Osage, Native American, and Veteran preference shall apply to all positions at Osage Casinos.
• Applicants must be able to perform all essential functions of job duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

SUPERVISION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• None

COMMUNICATION:

• Makes efforts to keep informed of company information and communications by reviewing property bulletin boards, digital signage, and company newsletter.
• Effectively communicates concerns and information to supervisor and listens to communication from supervisor.
• Effectively relates ideas for improvements to supervisor and management in accordance with chain of command.
• Observes and reports all unsafe behavior displayed by internal and external guests.

DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS:

• Deep clean commercial kitchens and equipment including fryers, flat tops, grills, ranges, and ovens.
• Move equipment and furniture to sweep, mop, vacuum, and scrub floors using brooms, mops and vacuum cleaners.
• Deep clean and disinfect walls sinks, countertops, floors, tables, chairs, refrigerators, and microwaves.
• Safe efficient cleaning, and sanitation, scrubbing, mopping, sweeping, wiping, spraying, transporting, transferring, etc. of all kitchens, bar and service station areas within the food & beverage areas.
• Maintains standards of kitchen and bar sanitation and cleanliness, as well as the safe handling of food and beverage products for guest's consumption.
• Assistance with taking inventory of China, Flatware, Glassware, Equipment, etc.
• Complete pull sheets for catering functions as determined by the banquet event orders and floor plan details.
• Display knowledge of all emergency procedures, including familiarity with MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) for chemical usage.
• Communicate on a consistent basis with supervisor keeping them abreast of all department activities and ensure that kitchen and equipment are in good working order and that the work area is clean and hazard‑free. Notify supervising Chef immediately if kitchen and equipment are not in good, safe working order.
• Follow all applicable safety precautions.
• Ensure that all kitchen and bar trash is removed from the area and disposed of properly.
• Notifies department management of needed repair work in the kitchen area. In cases when available adds service ticket directly to system.
• Completes all general cleaning functions and preventative maintenance.
• Maintains their assigned kitchen area in accordance with county health department and enterprise standards.
• Ensure that food service supplies are properly maintained in accordance with county health department and enterprise standards.
• Take garbage, trash, and recyclables from kitchen areas to disposal sites.
• Clean kitchen loading/receiving dock with power wash.
• Complete power washing of equipment outdoors.
• Complete sweeping and mopping of kitchen and bar floors.
• Assist in the organization of kitchen and bar…