Housekeeper

Employer is hiring immediately! {#hotel-front-desk-job-description-template} ## Hotel Housekeeping Job Description: Hotel housekeepers perform various functions to keep hotel rooms and its environment clean, attractive, and comfortable to guests. The following is a job description example that shows major tasks, duties, and responsibilities that commonly define the role of housekeepers in most hotels: - Answer immediately to request from guests, as well as from other departments - Load cart with supplies such as linens and move it to the required area - Enter guest rooms by adhering to proper procedures and ensure they are vacant - Replace used amenities in guest rooms - Provide clean linens and terry for dirty ones - Fold terry, make beds, and ensure bathrooms are clean - Take away, room service items, dirty linen, and trash - Perform check on all room appliances to ensure they are in good working condition - Adjust furniture, desk items, and appliances when necessary - Dust furnishings and walls and remove marks from them - Carry out floor care duties in hallway and guest rooms, and vacuum carpets - Adhere to all safety, security, and company procedures and policies - Provide immediate report of any safety hazards, injuries, maintenance problem, or accidents to the supervisor - Successfully complete training and certification programs in safety - Ensure flammable materials are properly stored - Keep uniform clean and make sure to appear professional always - Keep proprietary information confidential - Ensure company standards are followed in welcoming and acknowledging all guests - Expect service needs of guests and provide them even before called upon to do so - Provide assistance to guests with disabilities - Genuinely appreciate and thank guests for their visit - Apply professional language in communicating with guests and other people - Provide support to team to achieve common goals - Maintain quality standards and expectations - Without assistance, carry, place, move, or lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds; with assistance for items beyond 25 pounds. ## Requirements -- Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities -- for Hotel Housekeeper Role If you are applying to work as a hotel housekeeper, here are typical requirements and qualifications you will need to satisfy for most hotels to consider hiring you: - Strong ability to pull and push work-related equipment, such as a loaded housekeeping cart over uneven and sloping surfaces - Ability to bend, twist, stoop, and pull - Ability to sit, stand, walk, or kneel for a long period of time - Ability to manipulate, turn, and grasp objects of different sizes and weights - Strong hand-eye coordination and motor skills - Strong ability to follow verbal instructions - Strong knowledge of cleaning supplies and procedures - Ability to work independently without direct supervision - Previous cleaning experience may be an advantage sometimes, but not generally required