Bar Porter|Part-time| McCormick Place Convention Center

Oak View Group

Oak View Group (OVG) is the world’s leading arena development, management, and hospitality company founded in 2015 by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff to disrupt business as usual. As the largest developer of sports and entertainment facilities in the world, OVG prioritizes the way we do business focusing on making long-term investments in our people and our planet. We focus on building a diverse workforce and cultivating an inclusive workplace. Each day our team members around the world and throughout our local communities work together to provide the greatest experience to our fans and partners.

 

We celebrate and support a strong, transparent, authentic and inclusive culture focused around four core values:  

• We treat each other fairly and with respect.
• We act with integrity.
• We have an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We give back to our global community.

 

More information at OakViewGroup.com, and follow OVG on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. 

Overview

Maintain clean working bars in accordance with OVG , Illinois Liquor Commission and Health Department standards. Provide a superior guest experience; perform duties to ensure adequate supply of alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages, set-up bars, ensure supply of glasses and ice for the bars.

 

This role will pay an hourly wage of $25.01 to $25.53. 

job expires 3/31/2024

About the Venue

McCormick Place located in downtown Chicago is the largest and most flexible convention center in North America., With over 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space, the campus proudly hosts some of the world’s largest and most prestigious conventions, meetings, and trade shows, welcoming approximately 3 million visitors to Chicago every year.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Complete all Bar requisitions in an accurate and timely manner.
• Retrieve bar supplies from the storage area, ensure supplies are in good working order.
• Stock and rotate bars as required, respond to bartender requests for stock and check bars to monitor stock levels.
• Delivery of all bar items to bars in a timely manner, return all items back to West Warehouse/WINTRUST Arena Warehouse and ensure all alcohol is properly locked up.
• Communicate to management any shortages, overages, or areas of concern that require immediate attention.
• Responsible for ice, extra product and garbage cans when servers are present (add product to bars when they are low and not out).
• Ensure all Beverage storage rooms are kept organized (especially kegs) and neatly put away.
• Responsible for all sanitation of designated Beverage areas.  Floors must be mopped nightly, and all garbage removed in designated beverage areas. Ensure cleanliness of shelves, kegerators, coolers, walls, etc.
• Rotate stock when product comes in.  Maintain all products that are out of date, use the First In, First Out rule.
• All hard liquor bottles are required to be combined with the same type of liquor at the end of the night when restocking in warehouse.
• Provide friendly, quick, professional service to guests and co-workers.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities

 

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

Qualifications

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Educational Requirement

• Must have a High School Diploma/GED
• Must have sufficient math ability to accurately add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations and pass basic math skills test.
• Must speak, be able to read and understand English well enough to converse with customers,
• supervisor’s and employees.
• Understand written and oral direction and communicate effectively with others.

Skills and Abilities

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
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• Must have basic working knowledge of alcoholic beverages.
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• Must have sufficient math ability to accurately count.
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• Must have ability to follow directions and effectively perform the work.
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• Must have a pleasant personality and a neat appearance.
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• Must speak, be able to read and understand English well enough to converse with customers, supervisors, and e