Housekeeper Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Ability to perform the listed housekeeping and laundry duties.
• Ability to follow chemical safety instructions and emergency procedures.
• Knowledge of proper biohazardous-waste handling practices.

Responsibilities

• Keep the community clean and safe for residents, staff, and visitors.
• Maintain a clean and orderly laundry room and store chemicals according to product or supervisor instructions.
• Follow standards for using cleaning chemicals and understand and follow emergency procedures for accidental chemical misuse.
• Handle biohazardous waste according to proper practices.
• Thoroughly clean assigned resident apartments on the supervisor’s schedule.
• Clean bathrooms, including toilets, sinks, bathtubs, countertops, mirrors, and floors.
• Vacuum exposed areas completely, including edges.
• Empty and rinse wastebaskets when necessary.
• Clean kitchen areas, including counters and floors.
• Wash the inside of windows as needed.
• Dust uncluttered flat surfaces while taking care of residents’ belongings.
• Clean common areas, including elevators, halls, landings, stairs, resident activity areas, lobbies, and model units, as well as other scheduled or requested flat surfaces.
• Check and touch up vacant units according to the assigned schedule.
• Keep housekeeping and laundry carts clean and orderly.
• Notify the supervisor when supplies are running low and need to be reordered.
• Maintain clean public restrooms.
• Wash and dry all laundry, including residents’ personal laundry, using products appropriate to the wash.
• Fold linen and return it to the appropriate location.