Position Summary
The Houseperson cleans guest hallways, linen closets, and provides room attendants with supplies to ensure the Embassy Suite’s high standards of cleanliness, while also upholding the Embassy Suites’s high standards of service.
OPEN AVAILABILITY; WEEKENDS ARE REQUIRED
Pay rate: $15.50/hr
Essential Duties
- Clean walls, mirrors, tiles, tables, windows, and floor surfaces
- Strip and/or move furniture
- Dust all furniture, pictures, window ledges, and vending areas thoroughly.
- Maintain cleanliness of public space, i.e. lobby, public restrooms, offices, elevators and stairways as assigned.
- Push and pull vacuum throughout hallways, empty trash, and remove dirty linen from room attendant’s carts.
- Replenish amenities, linens, and supplies in linen closets.
- Visually inspect hallway areas for cleanliness and appearance. Must report all repairs or maintenance problems to supervisor.
- Push and/or pull laundry carts.
- Greet guests in hallways or in passing, ask if they are enjoying their stay.
- Clean toilets, sinks, urinals, walls, mirrors, tiles, counters, stalls, vents and/or floors with cleaning agents by extending arms overhead, bending and stooping. Adhere to cleaning procedures and instructions for use of cleaning agents.
- Thoroughly dust all furniture, pictures and shelves, extending arms overhead, bending and stooping if needed.
- Thoroughly clean and polish all metal surfaces, applying pressure in repeated motion.
- Clean ashtrays and empty trash.
- Thoroughly vacuum lobby, hallways and public areas.
Supportive Functions
- Respond in a timely manner to guest requests.
- Report all suspicious persons, activities or hazardous and unsafe conditions to a supervisor or manager.
- Turn in all items found in employee’s working area to the property Lost and Found Department.
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor such as cleaning rooms, assisting Room Attendants or cross training when necessary.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to push or pull equipment weighing up to 150 pounds.
- Ability to lift and carry objects weighing an average of 25-80 pounds.
- Ability to scrub and scour surfaces, extending arms over head to perform cleaning tasks, and work in confined spaces.
- Ability to communicate effectively with other employees, as well as guests.
- Ability to follow instructions, directions, and meet deadlines, including daily cleaning of assigned hallways as specified by management.
- Basic ability to comprehend English language sufficiently enough to understand information such as labels and instructions and basic guest requests
Benefits
- High opportunity for growth within the company and at 19 other local properties
- Raise after 90 days
- Discounted hotel stays
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $15.50 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you available to work weekends?
Shift availability:
- Day Shift (Preferred)
- Night Shift (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Bridgeton, MO 63044 (Required)
Work Location: In person
