Housekeeping Attendant jobs in United Arab Emirates

Hotel: Dubai Festival City (DXBHB), PO 45777, 45777

Do you see yourself as a Laundry Attendant for InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City?

As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental brand.

Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience.

If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand.

The InterContinental Hotels Group at Dubai Festival City consists of four hotels. These include the luxury and lifestyle brand InterContinental, the lavish long-stay InterContinental Residence Suites, the premium Crowne Plaza, and the essentials Holiday Inn & Suites. In addition to over 1,600 rooms, the cluster boasts a selection of 16 restaurants and bars, an impressive 3,800-square-metre Event Centre across two levels, the 5,000-square-metre Festival Arena by InterContinental, the luxurious Spa InterContinental, and state-of-the-art gym and swimming pool facilities. We are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming, and full of life to join over 1,200 colleagues who are always finding ways to make every guest's experience an enjoyable one. We value the passion and enthusiasm of our colleagues and encourage you to share your passion when you work with us.

A little taste of your day-to-day

• Assists in sorting hotel and guest linen for washing
• Ensures timely loading and unloading of machines
• Assists in transferring linen and clothes between machines
• Maintains proper temperature, pressure, and water level required as per the texture of the textile
• Ensures machines and areas are kept free of lint and in proper order
• Ensures general cleanliness of the entire laundry department
• Attending all staff training meetings as directed by the superiors
• Reports health or safety hazards to the Laundry Manager
• Receives, sorts, counts, stores, and issues all F&B and room linen according to established procedures
• Assists in inventory taking
• Reports damages and loss of linen to supervisor and assists in repairing linen
• Maintains linen room and equipment in proper state of cleanliness and repair
• Maintains records of new linen, discard, and issues
• Complies with Hotel’s health, safety, and hygiene policy and adheres to conduct personal grooming and hygiene standards
• Ensures timely pressing of all items
• Ensure all stains are removed, testing the chemicals before applying on the fabric, else inform the supervisor
• Ensure all garments being pressed are in proper condition, else inform the supervisor, for suitable action to be taken
• Ensure broken zippers, missing buttons are replaced, and mending is done if necessary
• Advises superior of damages and loss of linen/uniform on regular basis
• Establishes and maintains effective employee relations
• Prepares guest pressing and dry cleaning as requested in accordance with the hotel’s presentation standard
• Attended pre-coating and slugging
• Sort articles for pressing into categories and performs pressing function including:
  • Using pressing equipment
  • Maintain chemical supplies
  • Check guest items on receipt for damage and record any findings
• Maintains dry cleaning equipment in good condition and ensures regular servicing
• Maintains working area and equipment in proper state of cleanliness and repair
• Reports guest complaints to superior immediately
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned

What we need from you

• Good English command (speaking/reading/understanding/writing)
• Basic knowledge about how to operate different kinds of machines and chemicals.
• Ensures that your work quality meets the standards required and completes tasks in a timely and thorough manner with minimum supervision.
• Recognizes different garments and has knowledge of how each one of them should be treated

What you can expect from us

We give our people everything they need to succeed, from a competitive salary that rewards all your hard work to a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life – including impressive room discounts and some of the best training in the business.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate differences and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance, always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

IHG gives every member of the team the Room to Belong, Room to Grow, and a Room to Make a Difference in a collaborative environment. We know that to work well, we need to feel well – both inside and outside of work – and through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.

So, join us, and you’ll become part of our ever-growing global family.

Who we are

As the world’s first and most global luxury hotel brand, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has pioneered international travel since the 1940s, we are passionate about sharing our renowned international know-how and cultural wisdom in truly impressive surroundings. We all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental️ brand and to be part of the brand you will have a thirst for travel, passion for culture and appreciation for diversity. We create inspiring experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. If you’d like to embrace a world of opportunities, we’d like to welcome you to the world’s most international luxury hotel brand.

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