Head Waiter 100% (m/f/d)
Compass Group (Suisse) S.A.
Lausanne
Key information
- Publication date:09 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Lausanne
Job summary
Join our team as a Maître d'hôtel at a premier establishment. Enjoy a dynamic work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Organize and coordinate banquets, cocktails, and corporate events.
- Supervise dining teams to ensure exceptional service and cleanliness.
- Collaborate with kitchen staff and external partners for seamless events.
Skills
- 2-3 years of experience in a similar role in a 4 or 5-star setting.
- Strong team collaboration and adaptability skills required.
- Fluent in French and English (B2-C1 level) is essential.
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Your responsibilities
- Organize and coordinate banquets, cocktails, receptions, and corporate events
- Serve and clear guests in the restaurant with table service/banquet service
- Supervise the teams in the dining area (setup, reception, service, clearing)
- Ensure the customer experience from the welcome to the end of the event
- Collaborate closely with the kitchen, logistics, and external partners
- Ensure compliance with quality, hygiene, and safety standards
- Guide, motivate, and train teams to ensure smooth and impeccable service
- You work and participate both as a team and independently in the execution of various internal/external events
- General cleaning tasks
- Compliance with legal standards
- Continuous working hours in the morning or evening as well as every other weekend
Your profile
- 2 - 3 years of confirmed experience as a Head Waiter in a 4 or 5-star establishment in banquet service
- Spoken and written French & English required at B2-C1 level
- You enjoy teamwork
- You have a high adaptability and good physical and stress resistance
- Impeccable presentation
- We offer you:
- a 100% continuous but variable schedule (evening and weekend)
Your benefits
- Diverse development and career opportunities, including positions abroad
- Modern internal training and employee development program
- Support for an external training program
- Work hours adapted for families and regulated* (Monday to Friday, no work on weekends/evenings)
- Part-time work possibilities at all levels
- 16 weeks of maternity leave / 2 weeks of paternity leave (mandatory additional pay level)
- Possibility to purchase additional vacation with a generous employer contribution rate
- Possibility of telecommuting and free parking for employees of our service center
- Friendly Workspace certified since 2015 systematic health management in the workplace
- Extra-mandatory accident coverage
Your application
If you have any questions about the recruitment process, Amélie Gambette, HR Business Partner, will be happy to assist you.
Who are we?
We operate specialized brands by industry, Eurest, Scolarest, Medirest, Eurest Services, Rapport Guest Services, Compass Consulting, and Compass Catering, which are active in corporate catering, event catering, as well as reception and hospitality services. As a member of Compass Group PLC, a global leader in catering services with over 580,000 employees in about 30 countries, we skillfully combine international expertise with local roots and bring people together around our passion for contemporary cuisine and exceptional hospitality.
Our recruitment process
Once we have received your online application, we will read it with interest, review it carefully, and proceed to a pre-selection among the received applications. Subsequently, we will contact you and inform you of the outcome of your application.
The steps of the personal meeting process resemble a four-course menu:
