Full-Time
Employment
Housing & Dining Services regularly hires for a variety of positions including:
Residential Dining Services
- Chef
- Cook
- Baker
- Food service Worker
- Administrative Support
- Material Handler
- Barista
- Custodian
*Dining employees receive a free meal for every shift worked
Housing & Dining Facilities
- Building Services Technician
- HVAC Specialist
- Maintenance – General
- Movers
- Project Planners
- Purchasing and other Administrative Support
- Trades: Plumbing, Electrical, Electrical Specialist, Painter
- Warehouse
- Supervisor/Manager
Commitment to Staff
Generous Holiday Schedule and Leave Policies
CSU recognizes the importance of supporting employees as they balance their career, personal, and family life. As a part of this endeavor, the University offers generous several paid and unpaid leave policies. The University observes 11 paid holidays per year.
Retirement
CSU employees participate in the University’s Defined Contribution Plan (DCP) of Colorado. The plan offers a generous employer match of 12%.
Commitment to Campus Discounts
Commitment to Campus discount offers discounts or other perks for dozens of university and community programs and services.
Academic Privileges
CSU is proud to offer academic privileges to help with the cost of tuition for you and your eligible family members, including 50% discount on tuition for qualified dependents. CSU employees can advance their education with 9 credits per year, paid for by the University. Many of our staff are using this benefit to earn advanced degrees.
Thelma Sanchez, Lead Cook For Dining Services
“One of the things that I love in housing is they think about you. They think about your family.”
Colorado State University offers comprehensive health benefits including:
- Multiple medical insurance plan choices
- Employer contributions to HSA
- Healthcare and dependent care FSA options
- Short and long term disability
- On-campus healthcare facility and pharmacy
- Childcare: Employee discounts to childcare facilities, after-school programs, and summer camps
- Mental Health Services
- Annual on-site flu shots and biometric exams
- Wellness incentive programs
- Dental and vision coverage
- Employer paid life insurance & the ability to purchase additional coverage
- CSU CARE Program provides referrals to organizations that provide low-to-no-cost services like household necessities, dependent and elder care, housing, education, transportation, etc.
Vita Prentiss, Catering Manager
“I really appreciate the work life balance that CSU provides their employees. The same job that’s out in the private sector is not going to offer the same work life balance that I’ve been able to achieve here and been able to do and been able to have through working here.”
Employee & Family Resources
- Employee discounts to childcare facilities, after-school programs, and summer camps
- CSU CARE Program provides employees referrals to organizations that provide low-to-no-cost services that include: household necessities, dependent and elder care, housing, education, transportation, etc.
- Employee Assistance Program offers on-site support, third-party confidential support, and 24-hour crisis resources
- Academic privileges including 50% discount on tuition for qualified dependents
- Free use of Transfort and MAX bus with employee ID
- Family, couple, and individual therapy
- Discounted access to CSU Campus Recreation, City of Fort Collins and Boulder recreation centers
- Volunteer in Public Schools (VIPS) program allows up to five hours of paid volunteer time in area public schools
- 20% discount for veterinary services at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital
- Discount tickets to CSU Rams Athletic events
- Savings thru discounts to local shopping, travel, sporting events as part of the CSU Commitment to Campus commitmenttocampus.colostate.edu
- Rams for Rams commitmenttocampus.colostate.edu/rams-for-rams
- Housing Program hr.colostate.edu/employee-housing-programs
Welcoming Environment
At Colorado State University, we are a community that welcomes and affirms people from a variety of backgrounds and locations. We welcome different perspectives and ideas and strive for a comfortable working environment for all.
Emerlita Bautista, Lead Cook for Dining Services
“I feel welcome here, and comfortable working with different kinds of people.”
Housing & Dining Services offers workplace training for all employees, including:
- Principles of Community Training
- Sexual Harassment Training
- How to End Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Professional Development Trainings
Growth & Professional Development
CSU Housing & Dining Services offers Continuing Education and Licensing to its employees, including:
- Continuing Education Classes for Licensed positions
- Paying for License renewal for positions that require a license
- ServSafe Food Safety Training
- APPA CEFP
- Supervisor Training
- Safety Training
- Many other Professional Development Classes
- Morale and Team Building Activities
Amber Lobato, Building Services Supervisor
“There have been a lot of opportunities within our department. I’m chair for a classified personnel council, and it’s nice to be part of a group that advocates for staff and for that to be welcomed.”