Laundry Attendant
Highgate Hotels•Scarborough, ME
•Onsite
About The Position
The House Laundry Attendant is responsible for washing, ironing, folding, and distributing soiled linens, towels, napkins, and tablecloths. The role supports hotel operations by processing laundry, maintaining laundry equipment and work areas, and ensuring clean items are sorted and distributed appropriately. The attendant is expected to provide courteous, helpful service to guests, managers, and fellow employees and to help ensure overall guest satisfaction.
Requirements
- Ability to work flexible and long hours when required.
- Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 20 pounds frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
- Ability to stand for the entire shift.
- Maintain regular attendance in compliance with hotel standards and scheduling needs.
- Maintain high standards of personal appearance and grooming, including wearing the proper uniform and nametag.
- Comply with hotel standards and regulations to encourage safe and efficient hotel operations.
Responsibilities
- Be attentive, friendly, helpful, and courteous to guests, managers, and fellow employees.
- Understand the operation of washing machines and dryers.
- Load and unload washes according to standards.
- Wash and dry dirty linens, towels, rags, and other laundry.
- Sort hotel linen by type, color, size, and other relevant categories.
- Pre-treat stained linen before washing.
- Clean the dryer filter daily and maintain equipment as trained.
- Operate the iron according to standards and ensure it is shut off at the end of the day.
- Sweep and mop laundry floors and store linens off the floor.
- Fold towels and linens.
- Remove and sort dirty linens and towels from laundry carts.
- Keep laundry carts clean and free of debris.
- Maintain a clean work area.
- Sort clean laundry and load it onto carts.
- Ensure overall guest satisfaction.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching contributions
- Paid holidays
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave in accordance with applicable law
- Employee assistance program
- Educational opportunities and tuition reimbursement
- Paid jury duty leave, personal leave, medical leave, and military leave in accordance with applicable law
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
