Jobs at Chaminade

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Here at Chaminade Resort we strive to cultivate a strong culture rooted in family values and genuine hospitality. With job opportunities available across the resort from Front Office and Food & Beverage to Resort Recreation and Spa, we are excited to find new team members to join our family. With competitive wages and benefits supported by our industry leading management company, Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, we aim to create career opportunities with continued growth potential. View our current job openings below and apply to join the Chaminade team today!

Open Positions

Front Office Manager
Position Overview
The Front Office Manager is responsible for leading all front office operations, ensuring an exceptional arrival and departure experience for every guest. This role oversees the Front Desk, Guest Services, Valet and related functions while driving service excellence, team engagement, and operational efficiency.
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Front Desk Supervisor
Position Summary: Chaminade Resort & Spa is seeking an energetic, service-focused Front Desk Supervisor to lead daily front office operations while delivering exceptional guest experiences. This position is responsible for supervising Front Desk Agents, supporting operational excellence, resolving guest concerns, and ensuring all arrivals, departures, and guest interactions reflect the resort's luxury service standards. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced hospitality environment, leads by example, and is passionate about creating memorable guest experiences.
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Housekeeper
What you will have an opportunity to do:
The cleanliness of a hotel is one of the main reasons that keep our guests returning to and recommending our hotels to friends and family. It goes without saying that hotel housekeepers have one of the most important roles that take place in a hotel daily.
We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail to join our Housekeeping team. The ideal candidate creates a memorable experience for our guests through their attention to detail and care they take in preparing and maintaining the guest rooms. This role truly is the “Heart of the House” and provides key services for our guests to truly relax and enjoy their stay. A great housekeeping team can make a guest stay go from OK to Outstanding!
Experienced housekeepers who excel in their roles have the possibility of growing into supervisory or management positions such as Housekeeping Supervisors, or Managers and even Executive Housekeeper.
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Valet Attendant
We are looking for a highly motivated individuals to join our Guest Services team as a Valet Parking Attendant. The ideal candidate uses their engaging personality to create a memorable first impression for our guests as they arrive for the first time and throughout their stay. In offering a warm welcome to our hotel/resort, the Valet Parking Attendant assists with the opening of car doors as they arrive to the hotel/resort and unloading of guest’s luggage as needed. They will serve as source of knowledge for the guest for everything about the hotel, its amenities, and the local area.
If you are a person who enjoys engaging with people from all over the world and making meaningful connections, as well as taking steps to “WOW” people, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow a career in hospitality with a world-class property.
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Restaurant Manager
Position Summary: Chaminade Resort & Spa is seeking a dynamic, service-driven Restaurant Manager to lead the daily operations of our restaurant outlets while delivering exceptional guest experiences. The Restaurant Manager is responsible for overseeing front-of-house operations, ensuring service excellence, maximizing revenue opportunities, maintaining labor and cost controls, and developing a high-performing team. This leader will create a welcoming environment for guests while fostering a positive, engaging workplace culture for associates.
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Restaurant Sous Chef
Position Summary: Chaminade Resort & Spa is seeking an experienced, passionate, and hands-on Restaurant Sous Chef to join our culinary leadership team. Nestled on 300 scenic acres overlooking Monterey Bay, Chaminade offers an elevated dining experience featuring locally inspired cuisine, exceptional service, and memorable guest experiences. The Restaurant Sous Chef is responsible for assisting the Executive Chef in leading the daily operations of The View Restaurant kitchen. This role ensures exceptional food quality, consistency, sanitation, and team leadership while maintaining profitability and an outstanding culinary experience for our guests.
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Banquet Manager
Chaminade Resort & Spa is seeking an experienced and service-oriented Banquet Manager to oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of banquet events while delivering exceptional guest experiences. The Banquet Manager is responsible for leading banquet operations, supervising banquet associates, ensuring seamless event execution, maintaining service excellence, and driving operational efficiency. This leader works closely with the Sales & Catering, Culinary, and Food & Beverage teams to ensure every event exceeds guest expectations.
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Banquet Sous Chef
The Banquet Sous Chef is responsible for assisting the Executive Chef/F&B Director in the planning, preparation, and execution of all banquet and catered events. This position provides hands-on leadership in banquet food production while ensuring the highest standards of food quality, presentation, sanitation, and operational efficiency. The Banquet Sous Chef plays a key role in leading culinary associates, maintaining consistency, and executing events ranging from intimate gatherings to large-scale weddings, conferences, and resort functions.
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Cook II
We are looking for someone passionate about the culinary arts to join our Culinary team. This individual must be creative, motivated, and passionate about growing their talents in the kitchen!
Successful candidates for this role will have previous experience working in a professional kitchen environment, with a strong desire to learn, to develop skills and work with the culinary leadership team to create menus which reflect seasonal availability and concept of the restaurant.
The Cooks assists the culinary leadership team in production and fabrication of food products for kitchen preparation, cafeteria, banquet cooking, dining room, and fine dining. If you have a passion for the Culinary arts and are looking to join a team where you can develop your skills and grow a career, then we want you!
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Bartender
We are looking for a highly motivated, customer focused Bartender to join our team! The Bartender is responsible for delivering memorable hospitality to our guests with genuine and personable connections and engaging service from the initial greeting to their departure. As a Bartender, it is your responsibility to seek to understand the guest’s needs while preparing perfect beverages in a timely manner. This individual will need to be quick on your feet and have an engaging attitude.
If making meaningful connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day is what you do, and you love it, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow and learn at a world-class property!
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Banquet Server
We are looking for a highly motivated Banquet Server to join our team! This individual will help to set up and prepare banquet room for banquet functions, serve and bus tables as well as clear and tear down banquet rooms at the end of the function.
If making meaningful connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day is what you do, and you love it, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow and learn at a world-class property!
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Server
What you will have an opportunity to do:
We are looking for a highly motivated, customer focused Restaurant Server to join our team! Servers are the face of our restaurant and responsible for our customers’ experiences. Food server responsibilities include ensuring our tables are clean and tidy when guests arrive, presenting menus and serving food and beverages. This individual will need to be quick on your feet and have an engaging attitude.
If making meaningful connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day is what you do, and you love it, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow and learn at a world-class property!
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Evening Dishwasher
We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail to join our kitchen team as a Steward. The ideal candidate has a strong work ethic and tremendous attention to detail, in the care they take in maintaining the cleanliness of the hotel’s kitchen areas. This role truly is part of the “Heart of the House” and provides key services for culinary and food service teams so they can provide great service to our guests.
Are you ready to start a rewarding career, where you can Be the Difference in our guests stay and you can make a difference in your career, then look no further then Benchmark Hospitality.
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Restaurant Busser
The View Restaurant at Chaminade Resort & Spa is seeking a highly motivated, customer-focused Busser to join our team. As a Busser, you play a vital role in creating an exceptional dining experience by supporting our service team and ensuring the restaurant remains clean, organized, and guest-ready at all times. The ideal candidate is energetic, attentive, and enjoys working in a fast-paced hospitality environment. You will help maintain the flow of service by clearing and resetting tables, stocking service stations, and assisting servers with guest needs. If you're quick on your feet, thrive in a team-oriented setting, and enjoy providing outstanding service, we'd love to meet you.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to start or grow a career in the restaurant and hospitality industry. At Chaminade Resort & Spa, you'll gain valuable experience while working in a beautiful, world-class destination known for exceptional service and hospitality.
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Food & Beverage Pool Attendant
What you will have an opportunity to do:
The cleanliness and enjoyment of a hotel/resort pool is one of the main reasons that keep our guests returning to and recommending our hotels to friends and family. It goes without saying that experience a guest has while enjoying the pool environment is one of the most memorable of their stay.
We are looking for individuals with tremendous personalities, great attention to detail to join our team as a Pool Attendant. The ideal candidate creates a memorable experience for our guests through their attention to detail and care they take in ensuring the pool experience is next to none. A great Pool team can make memories for guests that will last a lifetime!
Are you ready to start a rewarding career, where you can Be the Difference in our guests stay and you can make a difference in your career, then look no further then Benchmark Hospitality.
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Inclusivity

Be yourself. That's who we're hiring. Our culture celebrates and supports the differences that make each of us unique. It's how we build better service for our guests and career growth for you.

Chaminade Resort & Spa is committed to providing an environment where equal employment opportunities (EEO) are available to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy status, status as an individual with a disability, amnesty, status as a covered veteran or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Chaminade Resort & Spa complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Please contact Ashley.Vincent@chaminade.com

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