Hotel Housekeeping

Springfield Hotel LLC; Springfield (CO); On-site; USD 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Employee discounts

Free uniforms

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Training & development

Job summary

A local hotel is seeking a Room Attendant to join their housekeeping team. Responsibilities include cleaning rooms and common areas, ensuring cleanliness standards are met, and reporting maintenance issues. Ideal candidates should be effective communicators, adaptable to a fast-paced environment, and able to manage their time efficiently. No prior experience is necessary, making it a great opportunity for newcomers to the hospitality industry. The position demands physical ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work various shifts.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow simple instructions and communicate effectively.
• Capability to manage time efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to handle cleaning tasks and physical demands.

Responsibilities

• Clean assigned rooms and areas to meet health standards.
• Replenish supplies and maintain cleanliness of storage.
• Report maintenance issues promptly.

Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Cooperation

Customer Service

Dependability

Problem Solving

Education

No prior experience or training

Job description

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Employee discounts
• Free uniforms
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Training & development

Job Information

Job Title: Room Attendant

Department: Housekeeping

Reports To: Property General Manager

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Position Summary

We are looking to hire a Room Attendant to join our cleaning team. You will be responsible for cleaning rooms and common areas, disposing of trash, changing beds, vacuuming, and notifying maintenance of any issues. You should be able to lift 25 pounds and have an eye for cleanliness. Our ideal candidate is someone who enjoys a high-speed environment, making it possible to finish cleaning a room within 30 minutes, is a self-starter and excellent at managing their time effectively.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
• Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
• Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean outdoor ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.
• Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.
• Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.
• Dust and polish furniture and equipment.
• Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
• Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
• Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.
• Wear uniform at all times while on duty.

Competencies

• Adaptability – adapts to change in the work environment, manages competing demands, accepts criticism and feedback, changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
• Communications – exhibits good listening and comprehension, expresses ideas and thoughts in written form, verbally, keeps others adequately informed, selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Cooperation – establishes and maintains effective relationships, exhibits tact and consideration, displays positive outlook and pleasant manner, helps and supports to co‑workers, works cooperatively in group situations, works actively to resolve conflict.
• Customer Service – displays courtesy and sensitivity, manages difficult or emotional customer situations, meets commitments, responds promptly to customer needs, solicits customer feedback to improve service.
• Dependability – commits to doing the best job possible, follows instruction, keeps commitments, meets attendance and punctuality guidelines, responds to requests for service and assistance, takes responsibility for own actions.
• Problem Solving – identifies problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyses information skillfully, develops alternative solutions, resolves problems in early stages, works well in group problem solving situations.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience: No prior experience or training.

Language Ability: Read a limited number of two‑and three‑syllable words and recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Write and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Ability: Add and subtract two digit numbers and multiply/divide with 10's and 100's. Perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.

Reasoning Ability: Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one‑ or two‑step instructions. Deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Software Skills: None

Certificates and Licenses: None

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job operates in a hotel environment. The role routinely uses standard cleaning equipment such as vacuum cleaner.
• Shifts may include days, evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Will work around chemicals and must be able to read labels as well as to measure proper amount of chemicals to be used in washing procedures.

Physical Demands

Requires ordinary conversation, hearing, and visual acuity.

Bend, squat, kneel, twist and reach repetitively.

Sit, stand, walk for prolonged periods (2 – 8 hours per day), and move about the office and customer facilities as necessary.

Performing this job regularly requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls.

Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Employee must be able to climb several flights of stairs in case of emergency or if property is not equipped with elevator.