Housekeeper Job Description
Housekeeper Job Profile and Description
A housekeeper job outlook involves providing clean, sanitary comfortable, orderly and satisfying surroundings for the residents, employees, and public facilities. The job also involves maintaining and implementing cleaning procedures for all assigned facilities.
Duties and Responsibilities
The following are the housekeeper job duties and responsibilities:
- Operates various mechanized cleaning equipment, such as vacuums, polishers, buffers.
- Maintains facilities in a sanitary and infection free condition through washing, cleaning and replacement of equipment and furnishings.
- Responsible for disposal of trash, waste, and other disposable materials.
- Plans work schedule for major tasks.
- Damp-dusts furniture, light fixtures, window sills, etc.
- Empties trash containers daily.
- Wet-mops floors in all residents’ rooms and bathrooms daily.
- Damp-mops all corridor floors, lobby, dining areas, and others daily.
- Washes basins, mirrors, commodes, tubs, and showers daily.
- Checks all vacant rooms daily to keep fresh.
- Cleans all air vents.
- Reports any needed repairs immediately to supervisor (such as leaky faucets or toilets, loose tile, broken window panes, missing nuts or screws, beds needing repair, etc.).
Skills and Specifications
A housekeeper job skills required to efficiently serve in this position include:
- Good skills in customer service
- Ability to maintain good employee relationship
- Ability to identify trends and areas that are needed
- Should demonstrate accountability for his/her actions and decisions
Education and Qualifications
Candidate must possess at the least a Bachelor’s degree in hotel management with at least 5 years previous experience in housekeeping operations