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Banquet Houseperson - InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown
IHG • Los Angeles, CA 90006 • Posted 30+ days ago
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In-person • Full-time • $21.17-$31.75/hr • Entry Level
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As a Banquet Houseperson at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, you will be responsible for setting up and breaking down meeting rooms, banquet spaces, and ballroom areas, ensuring the hotel's standards of cleanliness are maintained. This role involves cleaning and maintaining various areas, handling and lifting items up to 100 pounds, and may include refreshing rooms during breaks and setting up tables, chairs, and audio-visual equipment for banquet functions.
Responsibilities
- Set-up and break down all meeting rooms, banquet space, and ballroom areas.
- Clean and maintain all corridors, vending areas, elevators, landings, and service areas in the banquet facilities ensuring hotel's standards of cleanliness.
- Clean, store, and secure in an organized manner all tables, chairs, and audio-visual equipment, platforms/stages, and other equipment used for banquet functions.
- Inspect cleanliness and working condition of all equipment to be set up in function area. Report all damages or issues to Supervisor.
- Maintain cleanliness of banquet rooms, banquet hallways, and storage and service areas.
- May refresh room during breaks (replenish supplies, water pitchers, etc.).
- Set-up and/or break-down tables, chairs, audio-visual equipment and platforms/stages and other equipment as specified by group requirements.
- May retrieve clean linen and skirting and stock in storage areas
- May pick-up and deliver all boxes and materials (flip charts, easels, blackboards, etc.) for function
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required
- Basic reading and writing and mathematical skills.
- General knowledge of banquet operations preferred.
- Ability to perform physical tasks such as handling, carrying or lifting items weighing up to 100 pounds (tables, chairs, trays, equipment, etc.).
- Ability to move about the function areas.
- Ability to bend, stoop, and kneel.
Preferred
- Communication skills are utilized a significant amount of time when interacting with guests, coworkers, and supervisors
- Reading and writing abilities are utilized often with banquet event orders and instructions
- Basic math is used frequently to ensure the proper set up of tables, settings, chairs, etc.
About IHG
IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global leading hotel company offering a diverse portfolio of hotels and services under various brands catering to different market segments, from luxury resorts to budget-friendly options. With a strong network of over 5,900 hotels in more than 100 countries, IHG provides accommodation options for diverse travelers worldwide. The company focuses on enhancing its loyalty program, sustainability efforts, and expanding its global footprint to deliver exceptional experiences to guests.
Full Job Description
**About Us**
Do you see yourself as a **Banquet Houseperson** ? What's your passion? At IHG we're interested in YOU. We employ people who apply the same amount of care and passion to their jobs as they do their hobbies - people who put our guests at the heart of everything they do. And we're looking for more people like this to join our friendly and professional team.
As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental® brand. Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world.
Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience. If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand.
The InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown Hotel is located in the Wilshire Grand building, standing 73 stories tall in the core of Downtown's historic, entertainment, financial, arts, and sports districts. Ideally placed at the heart of the revitalized, energy-charged urban center of the United States' second-largest city, the hotel provides first-class hospitality that seamlessly intertwines with the fabric of the burgeoning Downtown area.
**Your Day to Day**
Set-up and break down all meeting rooms, banquet space and ballroom areas. Clean and maintain all corridors, vending areas, elevators and landings and service areas in the banquet facilities ensuring hotel's standards of cleanliness.
+ Clean, store, and secure in an organized manner all tables, chairs, and audio visual equipment, platforms/stages and other equipment used for banquet functions.
+ Inspect cleanliness and working condition of all equipment to be set up in function area. Report all damages or issues to Supervisor.
+ Maintain cleanliness of banquet rooms, banquet hallways, and storage and service areas.
+ May refresh room during breaks (replenish supplies, water pitchers, etc.)
+ Set-up and/or break-down tables, chairs, audio visual equipment and platforms/stages and other equipment as specified by group requirements. Set-up table linens, skirting and table top items (water pitchers, glasses, supplies, etc.)
+ May retrieve clean linen and skirting and stock in storage areas
+ May pick-up and deliver all boxes and materials (flip charts, easels, blackboards, etc.) for function
+ Perform other duties as assigned
**What We Need From You**
Basic reading and writing and mathematical skills. General knowledge of banquet operations preferred.
This job requires ability to perform the following:
+ Handling, carrying or lifting items weighing up to 100 pounds (tables, chairs, trays, equipment, etc.).
+ Moving about the function areas
+ Bending, stooping, kneeling
Other:
+ Communication skills are utilized a significant amount of time when interacting with guests, coworkers, and supervisors
+ Reading and writing abilities are utilized often with banquet event orders and instructions
+ Basic math is used frequently to ensure the proper set up of tables, settings, chairs, etc.
+ May be required to work nights, weekends, and/or holidays
**What We Offer**
The hourly pay range for this role is $21.17 to $31.75. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Los Angeles, California. This is the lowest to highest pay scale we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
Hotel discounts worldwide are available as well as access to a wide variety of discount programs and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most important, we'll give you room to be yourself.
So what's your passion? Please click "Apply" and tell us how you could bring your individual skills to IHG.
IHG is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Do you see yourself as a **Banquet Houseperson** ? What's your passion? At IHG we're interested in YOU. We employ people who apply the same amount of care and passion to their jobs as they do their hobbies - people who put our guests at the heart of everything they do. And we're looking for more people like this to join our friendly and professional team.
As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental® brand. Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world.
Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience. If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand.
The InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown Hotel is located in the Wilshire Grand building, standing 73 stories tall in the core of Downtown's historic, entertainment, financial, arts, and sports districts. Ideally placed at the heart of the revitalized, energy-charged urban center of the United States' second-largest city, the hotel provides first-class hospitality that seamlessly intertwines with the fabric of the burgeoning Downtown area.
**Your Day to Day**
Set-up and break down all meeting rooms, banquet space and ballroom areas. Clean and maintain all corridors, vending areas, elevators and landings and service areas in the banquet facilities ensuring hotel's standards of cleanliness.
+ Clean, store, and secure in an organized manner all tables, chairs, and audio visual equipment, platforms/stages and other equipment used for banquet functions.
+ Inspect cleanliness and working condition of all equipment to be set up in function area. Report all damages or issues to Supervisor.
+ Maintain cleanliness of banquet rooms, banquet hallways, and storage and service areas.
+ May refresh room during breaks (replenish supplies, water pitchers, etc.)
+ Set-up and/or break-down tables, chairs, audio visual equipment and platforms/stages and other equipment as specified by group requirements. Set-up table linens, skirting and table top items (water pitchers, glasses, supplies, etc.)
+ May retrieve clean linen and skirting and stock in storage areas
+ May pick-up and deliver all boxes and materials (flip charts, easels, blackboards, etc.) for function
+ Perform other duties as assigned
**What We Need From You**
Basic reading and writing and mathematical skills. General knowledge of banquet operations preferred.
This job requires ability to perform the following:
+ Handling, carrying or lifting items weighing up to 100 pounds (tables, chairs, trays, equipment, etc.).
+ Moving about the function areas
+ Bending, stooping, kneeling
Other:
+ Communication skills are utilized a significant amount of time when interacting with guests, coworkers, and supervisors
+ Reading and writing abilities are utilized often with banquet event orders and instructions
+ Basic math is used frequently to ensure the proper set up of tables, settings, chairs, etc.
+ May be required to work nights, weekends, and/or holidays
**What We Offer**
The hourly pay range for this role is $21.17 to $31.75. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Los Angeles, California. This is the lowest to highest pay scale we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
Hotel discounts worldwide are available as well as access to a wide variety of discount programs and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most important, we'll give you room to be yourself.
So what's your passion? Please click "Apply" and tell us how you could bring your individual skills to IHG.
IHG is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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