Houseperson

DUPREY SERVICE COMPANY LLC; Concord (NH); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Duprey Hospitality seeks a proactive Houseperson to support housekeeping and maintenance, ensuring hotel cleanliness and guest satisfaction. You will work with a team to maintain premises in an orderly condition and help deliver a positive guest experience.

Responsibilities include cleaning public areas, moving furniture, restocking supplies, assisting front desk with guest requests, and maintaining brand-standard room quality. Team players with a strong work ethic are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• No prior experience or education is required.
• Must read and comprehend simple instructions, safety rules, and memos.
• Basic math to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and courteous guest service at all times.
• Clean and maintain all public, storage, and administrative areas.
• Move and arrange furniture.
• Dust and polish metalwork and furniture.
• Vacuum floors.
• Clean bathrooms.
• Remove trash.
• Assist other coworkers and departments when necessary.
• Attend monthly department meetings.
• Complete projects as determined by management.

Skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Team player

Job description

Description

Duprey Hospitality is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Houseperson. In this role, you will play a crucial role in supporting our housekeeping and maintenance teams to ensure our hotel maintains its impeccable standards of cleanliness and guest satisfaction. If you're a team player with a strong work ethic and a commitment to excellence, we want you on our team!

About us:

The Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott is owned and operated by Duprey Hospitality, a full-service hotel management company based in Concord. We take pride in our commitment to excellence. With management contracts including renowned brands like Marriott, Choice Hotels, and Hilton, we're at the forefront of hospitality. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.

Job Summary

The Houseperson is responsible for performing a combination of tasks that maintain hotel premises in a clean and orderly manner, thereby contributing to a pleasant, positive guest experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide professional and courteous guest service at all times
• Clean and maintain all public, storage, and administrative areas
• Move and arrange furniture
• Dust and polish metalwork and furniture
• Vacuum floors
• Clean bathrooms
• Remove trash
• Ability to work well with a diverse group of people

Additional Duties

• Replenish linens and supplies when needed
• Stock assigned the cleaning cart for the work shift
• Deliver television sets, ironing boards, baby cribs, rollaway beds, or any other guest amenities
• Assist the front desk agents in fulfilling any guest requests
• Clean outside areas and remove debris
• Follow standard procedures for the acceptance and security of guest lost and found items
• Maintain room quality based on hotel and brand standards
• Attend monthly department meetings
• Complete projects as determined by management
• Actively seek out other tasks when current work is complete
• Assist other coworkers and departments when necessary
• Participate in ongoing education and training
• Clean swimming pool area (if applicable)

Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Essential Behavior Requirements

• Customer Service: Displays a professional sense of urgency when communicating and interacting with guests, coworkers, and the public in a way that exceeds the guest’s wants and needs. Identifies opportunities to improve and deliver additional value to guests’ experience by presenting creative solutions and innovative ideas.
• Communication: Actively listens to guests, coworkers, and the public (viewing the situation from the guest’s perspective) and works together to solve the problem through effective communication.
• Problem Solving: Ability to recognize and define problems; analyze relevant information; encourage alternative solutions and plans to resolve situations; seek additional assistance when needed.
• Quality: Work “product or service” is free of errors and exceeds customer expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education or Experience - No prior experience or education is required.
• Language Skills- Must have developed language skills to the point to be able to: read and comprehend simple instructions, safety rules, and memos.
• Mathematical Skills - Requires mathematical development sufficient to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• Reasoning Ability - Must have developed reasoning skills to be able to: apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions.

Physical Requirements

• Non-slip shoes are recommended
• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug test and background check
• Requires walking and standing to a significant degree, reaching, climbing, balancing, kneeling, crouching, crawling, stooping, handling, and seeing
• Lifting up to 50 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying or transporting of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Inside, environmental conditions are protected from weather conditions. Potential exposure to paint, solvents, cleaning chemicals, and/or fumes
  • Temperature Changes: Variations in temperature, which are sufficiently high or low to cause marked bodily discomfort, including exterior cold, heat, humid, and wet conditions