Bartender / Taproom Associate

Venue Bartender

The Venue Bartender creates a positive and transformative guest experience by providing professional beverage service for weddings, private rentals, and public events at Kingwood Center Gardens. This individual ensures the bar is properly prepared and operated in accordance with established service standards, event requirements, and Ohio liquor laws. They act as a hands-on hospitality team member, delivering exceptional customer service, maintaining a clean and organized bar area, and working collaboratively with Venue Operations staff to provide a welcoming, safe, and memorable experience for guests.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensures the bar is clean, stocked, and event-ready by preparing appropriate glassware, mixers, garnishes, alcoholic beverages, and service wares prior to opening

Interacts with guests and verifies legal age requirements before serving alcoholic beverages

Prepares, pours, mixes, and garnishes beverages in accordance with Ohio liquor laws, established recipes, and measurement standards

Delivers a guest experience consistent with the service standards of Kingwood Center Gardens

Dismantles and restores the bar area promptly following events while coordinating with Venue Operations team members

Enacts bar opening, last calls, and closures as specified in event contracts and timelines

All other duties as assigned

Requirements

Prolonged periods of continuous standing, sitting, or walking along with occasional stooping, bending, reaching, crouching

Must be able to move around garden in all weather conditions

Ability to lift up to 30 pounds occasionally

Ability to work a flexible schedule including late evenings, weekends, or holidays as needed

Must be able to handle the pressures of providing high quality service in a fast paced, distracting environment

Demonstrated bartending experience in the hospitality industry

Must possess skills to assess and handle guest situations often before an incident occurs in a professional manner

Must be goal-oriented, flexible, and adaptable to potential unanticipated opportunities

Must be able to organize workflows to ensure necessary details are captured and enacted

Ability to work with diverse staff and volunteers

Possess verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, including effective presentation and problems solving skills

Ability to collaborate across departments and provide leadership support as required for special events

Ability to relate to, work with people of all ages, diverse backgrounds, skills and abilities

Demonstrated ability with computers and POS systems

Qualifications

Must be at least twenty-one years of age required

A high school diploma, or equivalent or higher required

A minimum of a year's experience bartending required

Possess or willing to obtain TIPS, ASK, or Serve Safe Alcohol Certification

Must have a valid Ohio Driver's License

Must pass a background check

Must pass drug test

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