Laundry Attendant - Chelsea Hotel

Job Description

Job Description

As a Laundry Attendant is responsible for the highest quality of cleanliness in the laundry facilities, ensuring the cleanliness of guest linen and to provide efficient, prompt, courteous, trouble free and proactive service to guests.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Wash and folds linen.
• Sorts separate and transports linen from the chute room.
• Maintains furnishing, facilities, and equipment in the cleanest possible condition, and ensures that repair and maintenance are executed when needed.
• Is familiar with daily inventory and disbursement for all linen, cleaning supplies, guest rooms, meeting rooms, public areas and restrooms supplies, laundry supplies, and housekeeping related machinery and equipment.
• Responsible for all rotational and special cleaning programs.
• Keeps linen closets and carts clean and stocked.
• Knows all housekeeping procedures to be a resource when needed.
• Follow emergency procedures to provide for security and safety of guests and employees
• Works in a safe manner that does not harm or injure self or others and wears and uses the appropriate safety clothing/equipment supplied, and follows all maintenance instructions
• To keep work area clean and orderly, and to report defective materials and equipment to immediate supervisor.

• Perform any other duties assign by his/her manager.

Competencies

• Planning and organizational ability
• Time management
• Teamwork

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to variable temperature conditions (or extreme heat or cold). Also, variable noise levels, outdoors/indoors, fumes/odor hazards, dust and/or dust mite hazards, chemicals, and biohazards.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days vary based on business needs. This includes weekends, holidays, evenings and/or overnight shifts.

Required Education and Experience

• A minimum of (1) year of Laundry experience.
• A minimum of (1) years of hospitality experience preferred.
• High School education preferred.
• Able to speak and understand basic English.
• Must be able to work independently and exercise good judgment to resolve issues.

AAP/EEO Statement

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. Employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action; and policies in the employee handbook.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time or without notice.

No job description for any position can possibly include all duties which may be requested by guests or required by the needs of the hotel. Listed above is a summary of the major responsibilities, for this position.