Housekeeping Supervisor

Communication

• Provide assistance to coworkers, ensuring they understand their tasks.
• Speak to guests and co-workers using clear, appropriate and professional language.
• Discuss work topics, activities, or problems with coworkers, supervisors, or managers discreetly and quietly, avoiding public areas of the property.
• Talk with and listen to other employees to effectively exchange information.
• Exchange information with other employees using electronic devices (e.g., pagers and two-way radios, email).
• Answer telephones using appropriate etiquette including answering the phone within 3 rings, answering with a smile in one's voice, using the callers' name, transferring calls to appropriate person/department, requesting permission before placing the caller on hold, taking and relaying messages, and allowing the caller to end the call.

Assists Management

• Assign and ensure work tasks are completed on time and that they meet appropriate quality standards.
• Serve as a departmental role model or mentor by working alongside employees to perform technical or functional job duties.
• Encourage and motivate employees to perform their best, take responsibility for tasks and assignments, make decisions and provide input on possible improvements.
• Assist management to ensure that hourly employees have the necessary resources to effectively perform their jobs (e.g., supplies, equipment, and inventory).
• Ensure that hourly employees are trained on company core values, job roles, responsibilities, and technical and service aspects of the job.
• Ensure employee compliance with company standards and policies and external regulations (e.g., safety, OSHA, department-specific procedures such as food standards).
• Listen to hourly employees' suggestions for improving how work is done and how guests are served, gaining management support as needed to act upon suggestions.
• Assist management in establishing and communicating goals, performance expectations, timetables and deadlines for shift or departmental operations to hourly employees and ensure that they are understood.
• Coordinate tasks and work with other departments to ensure that the department runs efficiently.
• Assist management in counseling hourly employees on work related concerns and issues to ensure satisfaction and productivity.

Working with Others

• Support all co-workers and treat them with dignity and respect.
• Handle sensitive issues with employees and/or guests with tact, respect, diplomacy, and confidentiality.
• Actively listen to and consider the concerns of other employees, responding appropriately and effectively.
• Develop and maintain positive and productive working relationships with other employees and departments.
• Partner with and assist others to promote an environment of teamwork and achieve common goals.

Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement

• Comply with quality assurance expectations and standards.
• Monitor the performance of others to ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards.

Physical Tasks

• Move, lift, carry, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 55 pounds without assistance and in excess of 55 pounds with assistance.
• Ability to push and pull a loaded housekeeping cart and other work-related machinery over sloping and uneven surfaces.
• Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping.
• Stand, sit, kneel, or walk for an extended period across an entire work shift.
• Grasp, turn, and manipulate objects of varying size and weight, requiring fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Enter and locate work-related information using computers and/or point of sale systems.
• Read and visually verify information in a variety of formats (e.g., small print).
• Move at a speed that is required to respond to work situations (e.g., run, walk, jog).
• Visually inspect tools, equipment, or machines (e.g., to identify defects)
• Move through narrow, confined, or elevated spaces.
• Move over sloping, uneven, or slippery surfaces and steps.
• Move up and down stairs and/or service ramps.
• Continual use of manual dexterity and gross motor skills with frequent use of bi-manual dexterity and fine motor skills.

Housekeeping Protocol

• Identify and report preventative or other maintenance issues in public areas or guest rooms.
• Contact Engineering, At Your Service (AYS), Delighted to Serve (DTS), or Housekeeping office directly for urgent repairs.
• Respond promptly to requests from guests, Front Desk, or At Your Service requests.
• Identify room assignments and type of cleaning required for each room.
• Complete required Housekeeping paperwork, including reports, worksheets, activity logs, and checklists.
• Document and report outstanding issues that need to be handled to the manager/supervisor after shift is complete.
• Use checklists to ensure that cleanliness and condition of each assigned area meets designated standards.
• Select appropriate cleaning chemicals and necessary personal protective equipment for various surfaces and cleaning jobs, following OSHA regulations and corporate standards.
• Complete incident reports for any incidents or accidents that occur during shift.

Guest Rooms, Villas, and Suites

• Enter guest rooms following procedures for gaining access, such as knocking three times, saying “Housekeeping,” and ensuring vacancy before entering.
• Report missing hotel/resort property and damages to room to manager/supervisor.

Housekeeping Quality Control

• Inspect guest rooms after being cleaned by Housekeeper to ensure quality standards are met.
• Inspect public areas/bathrooms, restaurants, fitness center, pool area, offices, and service areas after being cleaned by Housekeeper to ensure quality standards are met.

Housekeeping Coordination

• Verify room status listed on report, determine discrepant rooms, prioritize room cleaning, and update status of departing guest rooms.
• Check and resolve issues with discrepant rooms with the Front Desk (e.g., guest was scheduled to check-out, but bags were found in the room).
• Assist Housekeeping management in managing daily activities of Housekeeping and Laundry.
• Communicate additions or changes to the room assignments to Housekeeping staff as they arise throughout the shift.
• Run reports to determine how many rooms are sold for each day, including the number of arrivals, departures, and vacant ready rooms.
• Prepare and distribute room assignments to Housekeeping staff.
• Close out house at the end of shift to ensure assigned rooms were cleaned and communicate issues to next shift.

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES

Analytical Skills

• Decision-Making
• Problem Solving
• Computer Skills

Interpersonal Skills

• Customer Service Orientation
• Team Work
• Diversity Relations
• Interpersonal Skills

Communications

• Listening
• Communication
• English Language Proficiency

Personal Attributes

• Dependability
• Integrity
• Positive Demeanor
• Safety Orientation
• Presentation
• Stress Tolerance
• Adaptability/Flexibility
• Initiative

Organization

• Time Management
• Detail Orientation
• Multi-Tasking
• Planning and Organizing

Physical Abilities

• Visual Acuity

Assists Management

• Resolving Conflict
• Delegating and Directing
• Coaching and Developing
• Team Building
• Performance Management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

High school diploma/G.E.D. equivalent

Related Work Experience

At least 1 year of related work experience

Supervisory Experience

At least 1 year of supervisory experience