Housekeeping

INTOWN SUITES•Dallas, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeper maintains a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for guests. The role performs routine and deep cleaning of guest rooms, hallways, laundry areas, and common spaces, ensuring company cleanliness standards and guest service expectations are met. Housekeepers help ensure accommodations are properly maintained and ready for occupancy. The position involves following housekeeping and laundry procedures, maintaining supplies and equipment, identifying safety or security violations, and responding to guest concerns. The work is indoors on hard and carpeted surfaces, includes standing for eight-hour shifts, and may involve exposure to extreme weather conditions, cold, and heat. The company states that this job description provides guidelines for job expectations and is not an exhaustive list of duties. Managers or supervisors may assign additional functions and requirements.

Requirements

Good knowledge of housekeeping and laundry standard operating procedures and techniques.
Ability to follow instructions and directions and meet deadlines.
Ability to clean the minimum required number of rooms per shift.
Ability to scrub and scour surfaces, reach overhead, stoop, bend, and squat while performing cleaning tasks.
Ability to step in and perform a variety of housekeeping or laundry positions in response to business needs.
Ability to visually inspect guest rooms, public areas, and service areas for cleanliness and presentation quality.
Ability to manage multiple activities, often in stressful situations and under time constraints.
Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Occasionally sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Stand for eight-hour shifts.

Responsibilities

Clean guest rooms according to company standard operating procedures.
Remove trash and miscellaneous debris from guest rooms and surrounding areas.
Ensure all hotel areas meet company standards, even when outside the assigned cleaning area.
Clean bathroom areas, including tubs, toilets, sinks, walls, and lights, and remove and replace bath linens.
Clean kitchen and dining areas, including refrigerators, microwaves, sinks, counters, cabinets, and tables.
Vacuum and wash floors according to standard operating procedures.
Dust and polish furniture and appliances.
Clean room exteriors, including siding, air-conditioning grills, doors, and windows.
Notify the Head Guest Room Attendant when rooms are ready.
Restock the housekeeping cart at the end of the shift.
Operate housekeeping equipment according to standard operating procedures.
Immediately notify a supervisor of safety or security policy violations.
Immediately notify a supervisor of guest concerns.
Provide superior customer service when interacting with guests.