Housekeeping

Job Description

Job Title: Room Attendant/Housekeeper

Department: Rooms

Reports To: General Manager/Front Office Manager

Pay Rate: $15.75 to $16.50 Per Hour

SUMMARY:

Cleans rooms and hallways and performs the following duties. The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time dire to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Clean guest rooms: vacuums, dusts, makes beds, clean bathrooms (tub, sink, toilet and tiles), empties trash
• Folds linen and maintains ample stock on cart of supplies needed to clean room
• Makes beds and freshens linens
• Replenishes bathroom supplies (towels, soap, shampoo) drinking glasses, and writing supplies
• Restocks Guest Services Binder with all information, movie lists, stationary, brochures, etc.
• Moves furniture, straightens bed, table skirts, curtains, bedspreads
• Washes interior windows, door panels and sills
• Empties wastebaskets and sanitary disposals. Transports trash and waste to disposal area
• Greets hotels guests by name
• Check all furnishings and equipment (lights, radios, minibars, etc) for needed repairs or maintenance
• Sweeps, scrubs, and polishes; dusts furniture
• Cleans rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies
• Notifies housemen to clean items, such as fireplaces, balconies or exterior items as needed
• Organizes and arranges guest belongings as necessary to present a clean and orderly room
• Check all rooms for smoke odors and use cleaning machine where necessary
• Reports all articles left behind by guests, and delivers the to the Front Desk
• Maintains an accurate room attendant list and notifies the Front Desk of early/late departing guests and occupied/unoccupied rooms

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one year of previous experience or equivalent combination of experience and education.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and comprehend simple instruction, short conversations, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and in small groups situations to customers, clients, and other colleagues of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s. Ability to perform these operations using units of money and weight, measurement, volume and distance

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a colleague to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing duties of this job, the colleague is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel’ reach with hands and arms’ and talk or hear. The colleague must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, depth perception. Color vision and peripheral vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a colleague encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the colleague is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From $16.00 per hour

Expected hours: 32 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Every weekend
• Holidays
• On call

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16 - $17