Laundry Washer

Compensation Type

Highgate Hotels

Highgate is a premier real estate investment and hospitality management company widely recognized as an innovator in the industry. Highgate is the dominant player in U.S. gateway markets including New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Honolulu, with a rapidly expanding presence in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Highgate’s portfolio of global properties represents an aggregate asset value exceeding $20B and generates over $5B in cumulative revenues. The company provides expert guidance through all stages of the hospitality property cycle, from planning and development through recapitalization or disposition.  Highgate also has the creativity and bandwidth to develop bespoke hotel brands and utilizes industry-leading proprietary revenue management tools that identify and predict evolving market dynamics to drive out performance and maximize asset value. With an executive team consisting of some of the industry’s most experienced hotel management leaders, the company is a trusted partner for top ownership groups and major hotel brands. Highgate maintains corporate offices in London, New York, Dallas, and Seattle.

Location

Discover more sun and more fun! Escape to a tropical beachfront paradise complete with everything you need for the perfect getaway, including delicious dining, beachfront bars, relaxing comforts, and endless activities. Here you’ll stay at one, play at two — with two connecting resorts right on the soft white sands of St. Pete Beach. Whether you’re looking for family fun, a romantic retreat, a group getaway, or anything in between, it’s all here at TradeWinds Island Resorts. https://www.tradewindsresort.com/careers

Overview

Follow your passion all the way to paradise at TradeWinds Resort, a Tampa Bay Times Top Workplace for seven years in a row! TradeWinds features two destination resorts just 200 flip flops from one another along the gorgeous Gulf Coast on St. Pete Beach.

Sorts, segregates, washes, extracts, dries, and moves clean linen using industrial washers and driers to meet laundry production standards for quality and performance. 

Responsibilities

• Manually removes dirty linen from linen carts, lifts, and loads dirty linen into industrial washers to achieve correct weight distribution as assigned by the senior machine operator. Washes linen using correct wash formulas without error. Completes all work within established department time criteria and ensures maximim utilization of available equipment. Logs all work.
• Manually removes, lifts, and loads clean linen from washers & places it into industrial size driers as assigned by the senior machine operator. Monitors drying levels to ensure completion of drying cycle. Distributes clean linen for processing without error using established policies, procedures, and processes. Completes all work within established department time criteria and ensures maximim utilization of available equipment.
• Monitors wash chemical injection units and chemical drums to ensure wash quality meets established quality standards. Exchanges 50 lb drums as required and alerts supervisor of chemical requirements before chemicals are exhausted as assigned by the senior machine operator. Cleans and prepares empty drums for return to the vendor .
• Coordinates with the senior machine operator to determine daily washfloor requirements, and demonstrates initiative to select linen carts for processing which meet these goals and objectives with minimum supervison. Stages carts and linen to facilitate processing as assigned by the senior machine operator.
• Operates all equipment as recommended by the manufacturer. Proactively avoids equipment downtime by maintaining a general awareness of equipment capability, performance, and function. Exercises initiative to identify and correct deficiencies which would degrade washroom production. Reports malfunctions promptly, completes minor adjustments or repairs of equipment as required, and assists repairmen to complete other repairs as assigned by the senior machine operator.
• Identifies linen by functional use and correctly sorts and segrates linen by washload requirement within established time standards. Assists in the collection of dirty linen on-site as assigned by the senior machine operator. Operates a golf cart to return linen to the washroom for processing.
• Initiates shift start-up/shut-down procedures, and maintains a familiarity with plant equipment necessary to the performance of daily duties to include but not limited by: boiler operation, compressed air systems, water feed and drainage systems, and basic troubleshooting skills to maintain operation of those items. Demonstrates an ability to identify equipment failures, and to report same for repairs.
• Performs other duties as assigned, like: loading and unloading of trucks and general cleaning duties; providing for the security and protection of equipment and resources; general linen sorting and/or operating other equipment as contingencies require.

Qualifications

• Flexible and long hours sometimes required.
• Medium work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 20 pounds of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Ability to stand during entire shift.
• Maintain regular attendance in compliance with Highgate Hotel Standards, as required by scheduling, which will vary according to the needs of the hotel.
• Maintain high standards of personal appearance and grooming, which includes wearing the proper uniform and nametag.
• Comply with Highgate Hotel Standards and regulations to encourage safe and efficient hotel operations.
• Must have open availability, including evenings, weekends and holidays, as they are our busiest times.