EMPLOYMENT AT The Creede Hotel
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CURRENT OPENINGS
Job Description: SOUS CHEF
THE ROLE:
The Creede Hotel & Restaurant is seeking a seasonal Sous Chef to join our kitchen team for the 2026 season. This is a hands-on, fast-paced role working closely with our Executive Chef and wider kitchen crew. The Sous Chef is a key team member, helping lead service, support creativity, and maintain high standards throughout the season.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
• Working alongside the Executive Chef as an integral part of a collaborative team
• Supporting day-to-day kitchen operations in a fast-paced environment
• Cooking with an emphasis on local ingredients, including bison and elk
• Producing a high percentage of food from scratch, including fresh pastas and sauces
• Contributing creatively to menus and daily specials
• Maintaining a clean, organized, and professional kitchen
THE KITCHEN & CULTURE:
Our kitchen is creative, slightly twisted, and internationally influenced. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity, and we value respect, collaboration, and individuality. You’ll be working in a supportive environment where ideas are encouraged and teamwork matters.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is:
• At least three year’s experience as Sous-Chef or similar position
• Experienced, proficient, and timely
• Professional, organized, and tidy
• Creative, curious, and open to learning
• Fun to work with and a strong team player
• Committed to seeing the full season through
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
Job description: RUNNER / BUSSER
In this customer facing role, you will be the ‘right-hand-person” for our FOH Staff. This position plays a key role in freeing up the FOH Staff to be with their customers.
Your primary duties:
• Always look presentable to our guests
• Have experience in offering great customer service
• This position requires lots quick thinking, fast walking and lifting
• Ability to communicate effectively to FOH Staff in a busy environment
• Know the menu and the table layout of our establishment
• Have a keen eye for what guests may need or are missing when you approach a table
• Have a keen eye for what may need to be restocked during the daily service
• Resetting tables rapidly to our standards
Qualifications:
• Some restaurant experience is preferred
• Friendly demeanor, team player, effective communicator
• Excellent customer service skills with a hands-on, guest-first attitude
• Some knowledge of food safety, health regulations, and POS systems
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may
include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
Job Description: LINE COOK
Role Expectations:
• Fast-paced, busy kitchen.
• Prep ingredients, cook to recipe.
• Maintain a clean, organized, efficient workspace.
• Ensure all health and safety standards are met and upheld at all times.
• Collaborate with the team.
• Previous line cook experience required.
• Strong teamwork, handle pressure, consistent quality, open to learning.
• Utilize local ingredients (like elk and bison) and craft house-made pastas and sauces.
The Kitchen and Culture:
• Our kitchen is creative, slightly twisted, and internationally influenced. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity, and we value respect, collaboration, and individuality. You’ll be working in a supportive environment where ideas are encouraged and teamwork matters.
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
Job Description: HOTEL AND RESTURANT HOUSEKEEPING
Our business has a busy restaurant and four cute, period hotel rooms that need constant upkeep and cleaning.
You’ll start the day by:
1. Assessing the Hotel needs and workload, planning your day and prioritizing the cleaning, stocking and laundry duties for the day.
2. We have some restaurant facilities and laundry that need cleaning and related maintenance, then you’ll proceed to clean the hotel rooms that are turning for the day.
3. You will have checklists to reference and maintain consistency.
Qualifications:
• Some cleaning and laundry experience is preferred
• Communication skills are required. Your team and GM will need to be kept up to date on the daily assessments, workloads and restocking needs.
• Ability to use a computer: email, website navigation, etc.
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
Job description: HOST
Our restaurant is large and busy, and the Host makes sure that we are running efficiently and effectively while simultaneously identifying any possible upcoming hiccups so that the team can deploy any mitigation. We employ a technical, data driven reservation and table system that maximizes efficiency and effectiveness for our team and for our guests.
The Host is the conductor of our operation during service: greeting guests, answering phones, setting a informational and positive tone with each pre-shift meeting, coordinating the FOH and BOH and using our systems and technology to ensure a smooth and successful night.
You will start and lead every pre-shift meeting; you will know who is coming to visit the restaurant and know when they arrive. The Host also shares in the tip-out structure of our restaurant sales.
Qualifications:
• 1+ years of experience working in a restaurant or the willingness to learn
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to lead and motivate a team in a fast-paced environment
• Tactfulness and the ability to know when to lead and be led
• Excellent customer service skills with a hands-on, guest-first attitude
• Some knowledge of food safety, health regulations, and POS systems
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
Job Description: EXPEDITOR (EXPO):
Our restaurant is both busy and large. The “Expo” position is an important role requiring focus, perfection, attention to detail, organization, the ability to handle pressure, knowledge of computer screens and to be quick.
The “Expo” is the ‘connector’ of the FOH Staff and the BOH Staff. You will be the last line of defense in making sure that our great food is leaving the kitchen looking perfect, organized and complete before arriving at a table of guests.
Qualifications:
• Solid work ethic
• This position requires you to be on your feet, move fast, be coordinated, handle pressure and have an eye for the attention to detail that our customers expect
• Some knowledge of food safety, health regulations, and POS systems
• Commercial kitchen experience preferred
Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Complete background check
Expectations:
• This is a seasonal business, seeing it through to the end of the season is expected and preferred
• Being a seasonal business, our success depends on flexibility and teamwork during peak times. Employees should expect to work a variety of schedules that may include weekends, holidays, late nights, early mornings, and other hours as business needs require. While we strive to support a healthy work–life balance, there are periods during the busy season when increased availability and effort are essential to serving our guests and supporting the team.
• We fully embrace diversity in this workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment for all employees. Discrimination or harassment of any kind are not tolerated.
• This business has the ability to offer subsidized employee housing when available. It is offered on a per-person and per-room basis only. Housing is provided as a benefit of employment, and is subject to availability, established rules and ongoing compliance with employment and housing policies.
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