Grand Bay Hotel San Francisco Director of Operations

Crescent Careers•Redwood City, CA

11h•$100,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

Provide guidance and leadership to the Rooms and the Engineering Division, ensuring consistent compliance with hotel policies, and quality guest service while maximizing departmental profits. This role involves implementing and managing the hotel’s daily quality process, including goal communication, associate improvement, compliance with Crescent standards, service recovery, and problem resolution. The Director will also disseminate feedback from guest comments and satisfaction measurements, coach staff accordingly, and manage the interviewing, hiring, training, and performance evaluation processes for departmental managers. This position requires strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to provide clear direction and supervise departmental operations. The Director will oversee budgeting, forecasting, training, motivating, and staffing for the Rooms and Engineering Department, including Telephone, Housekeeping Services, Front Office, Laundry, Concierge and Guest Services, and Engineering. They will prepare financial forecasts and review actual results, analyze security logs, and collaborate with the General Manager on hotel policies and guidelines to ensure profitability and consistency. The role also involves solving operational problems, planning and participating in various hotel meetings, and performing other assigned duties.

Requirements

Ability to communicate in English.
Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
Ability to communicate well with guests.
Willingness to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
Requires the exercise of considerable managerial skill as position involves frequent decisions, meeting of deadlines, negotiations of contracts of vendors, analytical ability and the planning, organization development and coordination of large scale work projects.
Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy to defuse anger and collect accurate information and resolve conflicts.
Complex mathematical skills and considerable skill in the use of a calculator to prepare complex mathematical calculations without error, i.e. budgets, forecasting.
Ability to be mobile for significant distances between and within buildings on the property.
Ability to observe performance and detect signs of emergency situations and respond with proper action.
Customer Satisfaction: Remain professional at all times, and treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances. Every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.
Work Habits: Meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance. Adaptable to change in work area and hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones, ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job and ask for help whenever not sure how to do something.
Safety & Security: Adhere to hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.
High school diploma required.

Responsibilities

Implement and manage hotel’s daily quality process including goal communication, associate improvement, compliance with Crescent standards of product and performance, service recovery and problem resolution.
Disseminate feedback from comment cards, guest satisfaction and service failure measurements and coach accordingly.
Interview, hire, train, recommend performance evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or termination when appropriate.
Communicate both verbally and in writing to provide clear direction to staff.
Assign and instruct Rooms and the Engineering Division Department Managers in details of work.
Observe performance and encourage improvement.
Monitor hotel occupancy and make staffing adjustments accordingly.
Supervise and review cost and inventory controls.
Field guest complaints, conducting thorough research to develop the most effective solutions and negotiate results.
Prepare written correspondence to guests.
Listen and extend assistance in order to resolve problems such as price conflicts, insufficient heating or air conditioning, etc.
Remain calm and alert especially during emergency situations and heavy hotel activity.
Plan and implement detailed steps or problem resolution by using experienced judgment and discretion.
Supervise the budgeting, forecasting, training, motivating and staffing of the Rooms and Engineering Department including: Telephone, Housekeeping Services, Front Office, Laundry, Concierge and Guest Services and Engineering.
Prepare Forecast expenses and actual results for the Rooms and the Engineering Division revenue and expenses.
Review Security logs daily for significant incidents, and coordinate with department heads all enforcement of policy and/or improvements in service needed.
Work closely with the General Manager in establishing and monitoring policies and guidelines in the day to day operation of the hotel to ensure profitability and consistency.
Solve problems of detail that come up in the course of the work.
Plan, organize, chair, attend and/or participate in various hotel meetings such as: Staff Meetings, Rooms and Engineering Division Meetings, Executive Committee Meetings, Quality Teams Meetings, etc.
Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
Perform any other job related duties as assigned.