Housekeeping Lead

Independence-Village; New Hudson (MI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSail Investment Group is seeking a Housekeeping Lead to manage day-to-day cleaning staff on-site, with some office time. The role includes hands-on duties and stepping in for staff when required, ensuring adherence to safety and contract standards.

The candidate will train and supervise staff, maintain inventory and budgets, and drive continual improvement in service quality across locations. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong leadership abilities.
• Ability to train staff on company policies and duties.
• Sound problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of cleaning materials, equipment and tools.
• Identify hazards and report to management.
• Train and motivate staff to provide quality service.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow client direction.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all operational and safety procedures are properly followed.
• Establishes schedule and plans daily work assignments.
• Manages customer housekeeping problems; investigates complaints.
• Inspects and approves staff work performance.
• Ensures cleaning is done to contract specifications.
• Manages and orders inventories of cleaning equipment and supplies.
• Maintains department budget and reports expenditures.
• Provides training and coaching to current and new employees; manages hours.
• Arranges maintenance and repair of cleaning equipment.
• Performs administration and paperwork as needed.
• Produces order forms for equipment and materials.
• Keeps knowledge current on cleaning developments.
• As a Housekeeping Manager, aims for continual improvement of the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Staff training

Communication

Problem solving

Cleaning knowledge

Safety awareness

Detail-oriented

Tools

Cleaning equipment

Vacuum cleaners

Cleaning supplies

Job description

The Housekeeping Lead is responsible for the day-to-day personnel management of the cleaning staff. This is an on-site job combined with office time. The Housekeeping Lead has the overall responsibility for the organization of the day-to-day cleaning operation and requires some hands-on work, including filling in for cleaning staff when required.

Required Experience

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong leadership abilities.
• Ability to train staff on company policies as well as on their job responsibilities.
• Sound problem solving skills.
• Must have knowledge of cleaning materials, equipment, and tools, along with communication and teaching skills to impart this information to his/her employees.
• Ability to identify hazards and report to management.
• Ability to train and motivate staff to provide quality service.
• Must have excellent attention to detail and the ability to concisely follow client direction.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures all operational and safety procedures are properly followed.
• Establishes schedule and plan daily work assignments.
• Manages customer housekeeping problems; investigate complaints about cleaning service.
• Inspects and approve staff work performance.
• Ensures cleaning is done to contract specifications.
• Manages & orders inventories of cleaning equipment and supplies.
• Maintains department budget and manage cleaning expenses and produce reports on expenditures.
• Provides training and coaching to both current and new employees and manage the number of hours employees work.
• Arranges maintenance and repair of cleaning equipment (i.e. vacuum cleaners).
• Undertakes necessary administration and paperwork.
• Produces official order forms for equipment, uniform, and materials.
• Investigates and maintains a working knowledge of developments in cleaning equipment and materials.
• As a Housekeeping Manager you are to work toward continual improvement of the overall organization.

General Working Conditions

This position entails standing for long periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The work environment requires appropriate interaction with others. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Occasional travel to different locations may be required.

Connecting Seniors, Families and Communities

For over 37 years, our senior living communities have served seniors and their families across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with each location offering unique services including independent, enhanced, and assisted living, as well as memory care and rehabilitation and skilled nursing. Through forming authentic connections and committing to creating the absolute best experiences each day for our residents and their families, we’ve created a special culture within our communities that allows our employees to do their best work and our residents to shine every day.

Not Just Making Every Day Great. Making Every Minute Great. There are 1,440 minutes in every single day. We aspire to make each one of them an exceptional moment. This philosophy is supported by our 6 powerful, yet simple pillars: Dream Big, Have Courage, Take Initiative, Be Accountable, Give Back & Enjoy it. We strive to fulfill the aspirational yet unattainable goal of creating the absolute best experience with every person, in every interaction, every minute of every day.

It begins with empowering our employees. Every employee, at every level of the company, is expected to perform like a leader. Everyone is encouraged and expected to put the needs of each other above everything else. No one here just “does their job” The mission is to create the absolute best experiences. This emphasis on putting people first has helped us successfully grow for the right reasons.

We have developed an environment that attracts dreamers, adventurers, creators, givers and believers to seek career opportunities with us. We find people who believe that true happiness is only found in the service of others. We want high-performers with diverse skill-sets and big hearts. We treat each other as family and find that close collaboration creates the biggest ideas.

If you love serving others, and are looking for an opportunity to thrive, CommonSail Investment Group and our businesses is your destination.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

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