Full Time Executive Housekeeper

vaenterprises; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as an Executive Housekeeper responsible for maintaining a private estate's cleanliness and providing exceptional hospitality. This role requires flexibility, attention to detail, and a commitment to privacy, ensuring a positive living environment for principals and guests.

Qualifications

• Experience in housekeeping and caring for luxury homes preferred.
• Full flexibility in schedule required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with cleaning, laundry, and organizing household items.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness and hospitality.
• Communicate efficiently with team members.

Skills

Housekeeping

Attention to Detail

Customer Service

Job description

The Full Time Executive Housekeeper will be an integral part of a dedicated and highly skilled team responsible for providing outstanding customized service to our clients. The individual in this role will be responsible for providing cleaning and interior maintenance of a private estate, as well as assisting with exemplary hospitality service.

Reporting Relationship: Manager of Domestic Services

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Assist with cleaning, vacuuming, dusting floors, ceilings, furnishings, hallways, fixtures, bathrooms, mirrors, and emptying trash containers.
2. Laundry, iron, fold, and put away.
3. Assist with interior window and screen cleaning.
4. Scrub and polish floors.
5. Clean and organize drawers, cabinets, and cupboards.
6. Change linens and towels.
7. Assist with the inventory of household supplies and tracking related costs.
8. Assist with special events/dinner parties, including preparing proper table and linen setting; conducting set-up/tear-down of buffet and beverage stations; assisting the Chef.
9. Ensure services are performed at the highest level of quality and hospitality.
10. Ensure that all household spaces are maintained to the highest cleanliness levels and that all housekeeping tasks are performed as requested.
11. Efficiently communicate with other staff; attentively listen, ask questions, work well with others, and demonstrate a desire to be part of a team.
12. Assist with other duties as assigned and in the absence of other staff.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Housekeeping experience.
• Experience caring for and cleaning luxury homes, hotels, inns, yachts, etc., is preferred.
• Hospitality experiences are an advantage.
• Training in and/or an eye for aesthetics is important.
• Excellent knowledge of household table etiquette, service, and entertaining protocol is an advantage.
• Must be detail-oriented.
• Full flexibility in schedule to meet requirements/needs, including day shifts, evening shifts, weekends, and holidays.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Ability to travel and work at winter and summer homes.
• Must be responsible, dedicated, and dependable.
• Proven track record of providing outstanding customer service with a professional, tactful demeanor.
• Uncompromised commitment to the highest level of confidentiality and privacy.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Ability to work at a physically demanding pace.
• Ability to lift thirty (30) pounds to a maximum height of six (6) feet.
• Ability to remain standing for lengthy periods; climb steps and stairs; stoop, bend, and kneel.
• Ability to stand on a small step stool to accomplish cleaning tasks.
• Ability to push/pull vacuum cleaner and operate household maintenance equipment for lengthy periods.

SUMMARY:

You will be part of a diverse, friendly, and hard-working team dedicated to providing a positive and peaceful living environment for the principals and their guests. All duties should be conducted with sensitivity to privacy, respecting the family’s activities. Flexibility and teamwork will guide which rooms to clean and when to do so to respect the principals’ privacy.