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Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 45394
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
As Corporate Receptionist at McCain’s Oakbrook Experience Center, you’ll be a key member of the Office Experience Team and the primary front-of-house representative for our workplace. You’ll create a welcoming, professional, and secure experience for employees, candidates, guests, visitors, vendors, and service providers. You’ll also help keep daily office operations running smoothly through visitor management, switchboard and access coordination, emergency readiness, onboarding and offboarding support, and general office services.
Anticipated hours for the role are 7:30am - 3:30pm CST onsite in our Oakbrook Headquarters. We are open to consideration for part-time schedules, though start time must maintain 7:30am.
What you’ll be doing.
- Serve as the first point of contact for employees, candidates, guests, visitors, vendors, and service providers, creating a consistently welcoming and professional experience.
- Manage the end-to-end visitor experience, including check-in and check-out, host notification, temporary credentials, directions, visitor records, and coordination with Building Security.
- Answer, screen, and route incoming calls through the company switchboard and ensure voicemail messages reach the appropriate person or department promptly.
- Support new-hire and transfer onboarding, including welcoming employees, coordinating badge photos and identification, providing approved materials, and directing employees to orientation activities and meetings.
- Coordinate employee, contractor, and visitor badges and routine access needs; support offboarding by receiving returned company assets and arranging secure handoff to the appropriate internal teams.
- Support office safety and emergency preparedness by maintaining current reference materials, following established emergency and escalation procedures, assisting with drills and evacuations, and supporting visitor accountability.
- Coordinate incoming mail, packages, courier deliveries, dock calls, freight-elevator access, work-order requests, and other front-desk operational needs.
- Support meetings and events by coordinating visitor access, room logistics, catering arrival, basic supplies, and escalation of facilities or technology issues.
- Provide backup coverage for the Building Services Associate and Office Coordinator and respond to routine employee and visitor inquiries, directing more complex matters to the appropriate resource.
- Maintain accurate records and confidential information, promptly escalate safety, security, access, facilities, or service concerns, and identify opportunities to improve front-desk processes, communications, and service consistency.
What you’ll need to be successful.
- At least two years of administrative, reception, hospitality, or customer-service experience; corporate office experience is preferred.
- Associate degree or equivalent related work experience in an office, hospitality, administrative, or customer-service environment preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel, along with the ability to learn visitor-management, badge-access, switchboard, and work-order systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with employees, leaders, visitors, candidates, vendors, and service providers.
- Excellent customer-service skills with the ability to remain composed, courteous, and solutions-oriented while managing multiple priorities.
- Strong organization, time-management, attention-to-detail, and follow-through skills.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, protect confidential and sensitive information, and appropriately escalate safety, security, access, or service concerns.
- Reliable and consistent on-site presence during established reception coverage hours, with flexibility to support changing business needs.
About the team.
You’ll be part of McCain’s Office Experience Team, working closely with employees, leaders, Executive Assistants, Building Security, vendors, and other workplace partners to deliver a safe, welcoming, and well-run office experience. This role has no direct reports and reports to the Senior Director, Human Resources. As a key front-of-house partner at the Oakbrook Experience Center, you’ll play an important role in connecting visitors and employees with the people, services, and resources they need.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
Compensation Package: $42,300.00 - $56,500.00 USD annually for a full-time position. In the event your schedule meets a part-time accommodation, the pay would be determined accordingly.
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits:
At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: General & Administration
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Title: Receptionist
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 45394
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
As Corporate Receptionist at McCain’s Oakbrook Experience Center, you’ll be a key member of the Office Experience Team and the primary front-of-house representative for our workplace. You’ll create a welcoming, professional, and secure experience for employees, candidates, guests, visitors, vendors, and service providers. You’ll also help keep daily office operations running smoothly through visitor management, switchboard and access coordination, emergency readiness, onboarding and offboarding support, and general office services.
Anticipated hours for the role are 7:30am - 3:30pm CST onsite in our Oakbrook Headquarters. We are open to consideration for part-time schedules, though start time must maintain 7:30am.
What you’ll be doing.
- Serve as the first point of contact for employees, candidates, guests, visitors, vendors, and service providers, creating a consistently welcoming and professional experience.
- Manage the end-to-end visitor experience, including check-in and check-out, host notification, temporary credentials, directions, visitor records, and coordination with Building Security.
- Answer, screen, and route incoming calls through the company switchboard and ensure voicemail messages reach the appropriate person or department promptly.
- Support new-hire and transfer onboarding, including welcoming employees, coordinating badge photos and identification, providing approved materials, and directing employees to orientation activities and meetings.
- Coordinate employee, contractor, and visitor badges and routine access needs; support offboarding by receiving returned company assets and arranging secure handoff to the appropriate internal teams.
- Support office safety and emergency preparedness by maintaining current reference materials, following established emergency and escalation procedures, assisting with drills and evacuations, and supporting visitor accountability.
- Coordinate incoming mail, packages, courier deliveries, dock calls, freight-elevator access, work-order requests, and other front-desk operational needs.
- Support meetings and events by coordinating visitor access, room logistics, catering arrival, basic supplies, and escalation of facilities or technology issues.
- Provide backup coverage for the Building Services Associate and Office Coordinator and respond to routine employee and visitor inquiries, directing more complex matters to the appropriate resource.
- Maintain accurate records and confidential information, promptly escalate safety, security, access, facilities, or service concerns, and identify opportunities to improve front-desk processes, communications, and service consistency.
What you’ll need to be successful.
- At least two years of administrative, reception, hospitality, or customer-service experience; corporate office experience is preferred.
- Associate degree or equivalent related work experience in an office, hospitality, administrative, or customer-service environment preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel, along with the ability to learn visitor-management, badge-access, switchboard, and work-order systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with employees, leaders, visitors, candidates, vendors, and service providers.
- Excellent customer-service skills with the ability to remain composed, courteous, and solutions-oriented while managing multiple priorities.
- Strong organization, time-management, attention-to-detail, and follow-through skills.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, protect confidential and sensitive information, and appropriately escalate safety, security, access, or service concerns.
- Reliable and consistent on-site presence during established reception coverage hours, with flexibility to support changing business needs.
About the team.
You’ll be part of McCain’s Office Experience Team, working closely with employees, leaders, Executive Assistants, Building Security, vendors, and other workplace partners to deliver a safe, welcoming, and well-run office experience. This role has no direct reports and reports to the Senior Director, Human Resources. As a key front-of-house partner at the Oakbrook Experience Center, you’ll play an important role in connecting visitors and employees with the people, services, and resources they need.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
Compensation Package: $42,300.00 - $56,500.00 USD annually for a full-time position. In the event your schedule meets a part-time accommodation, the pay would be determined accordingly.
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits:
At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: General & Administration
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Dental Receptionist
Target dental group practices over solo offices
Multi-location dental groups and DSO chains have HR infrastructure to handle visa paperwork. Solo practitioners rarely have experience sponsoring work visas, making large group practices a more realistic starting point for OPT-to-sponsorship conversations.
Confirm full-time hours before accepting an offer
OPT requires you to work at least 20 hours per week, but full-time employment strengthens your case for future sponsorship. Ask about guaranteed weekly hours upfront, not after you've already accepted the role.
Highlight bilingual skills on your application
Dental practices serving Spanish, Mandarin, or Hindi-speaking patient populations actively seek bilingual receptionists. A language skill tied to their patient base makes you harder to replace and strengthens your sponsorship case significantly.
Get trained on dental practice management software
Familiarity with Dentrix, Eaglesoft, or Open Dental is a concrete differentiator. Practices invest in staff who know their systems. Demonstrating this proficiency signals long-term value, which is exactly what you need when sponsorship comes up.
Bring up OPT early, not after an offer
Mention your work authorization status during the first interview, not after receiving an offer. This filters out employers who won't sponsor and saves time. Most practices appreciate the transparency rather than discovering it later.
Understand that sponsorship usually means H-1B for this role
Dental Receptionist positions typically qualify as specialty occupations if a degree is genuinely required. Confirm the role's educational requirements with your employer before assuming sponsorship is possible. Your immigration attorney can assess eligibility.
Dental Receptionist OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Dental Receptionist role qualify for OPT work authorization?
Yes, as long as the position is directly related to your degree field. If you studied healthcare administration, business, communications, or a related area, a Dental Receptionist role can qualify. Your DSO must agree the job relates to your major, and you need to report the employment through your school's international student office within the required timeframe.
Can a Dental Receptionist job lead to H-1B sponsorship?
It depends on how the role is structured. H-1B visa sponsorship requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation, meaning a specific bachelor's degree must be a genuine requirement. Some practices that require a degree in healthcare administration or a related field can support H-1B sponsorship, but this isn't universal. An immigration attorney should review the specific job description before you assume sponsorship is available.
Where can I find Dental Receptionist jobs that are open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate is the recommended platform for F-1 OPT students searching for roles open to work authorization. You can filter specifically for employers who have a history of sponsoring visas, which narrows your search to opportunities where a sponsorship conversation is realistic rather than a long shot.
Does working part-time as a Dental Receptionist affect my OPT?
Yes. OPT requires at least 20 hours of work per week to remain in valid status. Part-time work below that threshold puts your OPT at risk of being considered unauthorized. Full-time positions are strongly preferable because they meet the threshold comfortably and demonstrate the kind of stable employment that supports a future sponsorship conversation.
What happens to my OPT if the dental practice lets me go?
You enter a 60-day unemployment grace period, during which you can search for a new qualifying position without violating your OPT status. You must report the job separation to your DSO promptly. If you don't secure new employment within 60 days, your OPT authorization ends and you must either change status or depart the United States.