Home Cleaning Professional - In this position, you aren't "just a cleaner!" You will be bringing happiness and a great sense of relief to each client by professionally cleaning, straightening, and tending to the details so that everything shines!
This is a position where you really get to pamper and care for your clients. So, yes. You are a cleaner. But, more importantly, you are the reason 'cleaning day' is their favorite day of the week!
Let's talk PAY & BENEFITS!!
- Join our award-winning team & receive a full month of THE BEST training available in the Greater Northwest! Training pay is $21.50 an hour followed by regular pay at $22 an hour.
- Become a trainer yourself and you'll move to $27 an hour in as little as 4 to 6 months -- All cleaners who are reliable, communicative, kind, and efficient are eligible, without limitation.
- Plus, we offer 2 WEEKS of PAID TIME OFF YEARLY or 3 WEEKS if you become a TRAINER
- $1/hr Pay Increases Annually = End of Year-1 Trainer's Pay is $28 an hour, non-trainers $23 an hour. And every year it gets better!
- SUPER GENEROUS weekly travel stipend after training, plus $75/week stipend upfront during training!
- Paid bereavement leave, for the loss of loved ones(this includes Pets)
- Earn weekly $20 cash bonuses
- We offer Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits sometimes as early as 60 days & ALHC pays half (Coverage begins on the 1st of the following month after the 60 days)
- $150-$200 monthly stipend available to spend on something fun that's just for you! Or, let it pay the employee portion of health/dental which can make these benefits free!
- Keep 100% of your tips
- Your Birthday is a Paid Day Off
- We run multiple contests with excellent prizes like all accommodations paid vacations and more!
- Enjoy a yearly 3 day company camp with us. We treat all our employees to an all expense paid vacation near Seattle
- Enjoy a yearly Christmas party, that includes white elephant gift exchange and catered dinner
- Enjoy happy hours at April Lane's that include picnics, karaoke, and paint & sips!
- Trainer appreciation dinners
- We always, always promote from within
.... and what else?
- We work from 8am-5pm, 5 days a week (Monday-Friday)
- We hire for full time only (32-40 hours per week)
- We hire you as our employee. No I-9 subcontractors runaround here!
- We provide you with all the training, tools, and support needed to clean 2-3 houses a day
- We provide a tablet for you to use both at work and for personal use, if you like
- You get a strong, caring leadership team supporting, encouraging and advocating for you always
- We offer lots of opportunities for personal growth and self-development
- We ALWAYS maintain a positive and supportive work environment. Our job is to pamper each employee so they are inspired to pamper every client
- We all get to feel what it means to be truly appreciated and valued on a daily basis
- We maintain a sincere and welcoming open-door policy
- We encourage our people to build relationships with their management team, coworkers, and clients as a way to enrich your life. Work should be a place of joy, laughter, fun and growth
- In short, we hire the whole person (not just a worker bee). We truly care about you and your life. We will be your biggest cheerleaders as you work towards your personal or professional dreams.
Fun Facts:
- We are a local Seattle business, not a chain.
- We are proud to be a recipient of the Seattle Mayor's Small Business Award
- We are proud volunteers for many charitable efforts/events
- April Lane has sat from time to time on Seattle Mayor's committees as an advocate for services industry employees and their employers
- April Lane is a veteran Board Member of the Association of Residential Cleaning Services International (www.arcsi.org), which provides continued education and innovation for house cleaning companies nationwide
- April Lane's Home Cleaning has been one of Seattle's favorite locally owned companies for over 30 years! We pride ourselves on doing things differently than other employers by offering something rare and hard to find - an employee-first approach to everything we do. We value our employees and vow to treat them like the unique and wonderful people that they are. We offer a unique and spirited company culture along with great benefits and dependable caring leadership. This allows us to deliver unparalleled service to our clients.
What we are looking for:
- Have your own car and be comfortable commuting throughout our full service area, to 2 to 3 job sites daily.
- Be able to fluently read, write and speak English at a high school level or higher.
- Be open to growth and personal development and a new way of being an employee.
- Be positive and outgoing by nature.
- Be very resilient with sporadic anxiety inducing or stressful situations.
- Love pets of all shapes, colors and sizes.
- Love humans of all shapes, colors and sizes.
- Have a keen eye for detail.
- Value the feeling of going above and beyond to knock your client's socks off.
- Be drama free. And, not only appreciative but ready to actively co-create a positive, supportive and downright loving work community.
- Enjoy being in service to others and strive to make your clients feel like their happiness is all that really matters.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.50 - $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 32.0 – 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- On-the-job training
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you own a reliable, insured, smoke free vehicle that you do not share with anyone? (each of these 4 are required)
- In which zip code do you currently reside?
- Have you maintained a full-time job continuously with the same employer for a year or longer within the past 2 years?
- Are you available Monday - Friday from 8am until 5pm, with a 7:45 am start in South Seattle on Wednesdays?
- If you love your new job, are you willing & able to stay for at least one year?
- On a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being you very much dislike it and 5 being you enjoy it very much, how would you rate your love of house cleaning?
- Our pre-hire drug test does not include drugs which are legal in the State of Washington. Will you pass this test?
- On a scale of 1–10, how comfortable are you with providing high quality work while working in fast-paced or unpredictable environments?
Experience:
- direct customer service: 2 years (Required)
Language:
- , read & write English at a high school level or above (Required)
License/Certification:
- driver's license & car insurance (Required)
Shift availability:
Ability to Commute:
Work Location: In person
