Room Attendant

Reports to: Housekeeping Management, Room Inspectors & Inspectresses

Supervises Directly: No one

Purpose for the Position:

To clean rooms and halls in hotel performing a combination of tasks. Which maintain hotel premises in a clean and orderly manner, thereby contributing to a pleasant, positive guest experience.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Sorts, counts, folds, marks, or carries linens.
2. Makes beds.
3. Replenishes supplies, such as drinking glasses and writing supplies.
4. Moves furniture, hangs drapes, and rolls carpets.
5. Cleans rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways and locker rooms and other work areas.
6. Sweeps, scrubs, waxes, and polishes floors, using brooms and mops and powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
7. Cleans rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaner.
8. Dusts furniture and equipment.
9. Polishes metalwork, such as fixtures and fittings.
10. Washes walls, ceilings, and woodwork.
11. Washes windows, door panels, and sills.
12. Empties wastebaskets, and empties and cleans ashtrays.
13. Transports trash and waste to disposal area.
14. Replenishes bathroom supplies.
15. Replaces light bulbs.
16. All other duties as assigned by a manager or supervisor.

Skills and Abilities:

Use hands to lift, carry or pull objects that may be heavy.
Understand simple instructions.
Learn simple procedures and techniques.
Perform routine work or the same task over and over again.

Physical Demands: Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time), and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time), and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Requires walking or standing to a significant degree, or requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls, or requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Environmental Conditions: Inside: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. A job is considered “inside” if the worker spends approximately 75 percent or more of the time inside.

Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job. Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.

Reasoning Development: Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two-step instructions. Deal with standardized situations with occasional or no variables in or from the situations encountered on the job.

Mathematical Development: Add and subtract two digit numbers. Multiply and divide 10’s and 100’s by 2,3,4 and 5.
Perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins and as part of a dollar. Perform operations with units such as cup, pint and quart; inch, foot, and yard; or ounce and pound.

Language Development: Reading: Recognize meaning of 2,500 (two or three syllable) words. Read at a rate of 95-120 words per minute. Compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Writing: Print simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and series of numbers, names, and addresses. Speaking: Speak simple sentences, using normal word order, and present and past tenses.

Relationships to Data, People and Things:
Data: Comparing: Judging the readily observable, functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.
People: Taking instructions helping: Helping applies to “non-learning” helpers. No variety of implicit wishes of people is involved in this function
Things: Handling: Using body members, hand tools, and/or special devices to work, move, or carry objects or materials.
Involves little or no latitude for judgment with regard to attainment of standards or in selecting appropriate tool, object or material.

Specific Vocational Preparation:

Specific Vocational Preparation includes an occupationally significant combination of: vocational education, apprentice training, in-plant training, on-the-job training, or essential experience in less responsible jobs which lead to the higher job or serving in other jobs.

Anything beyond short demonstration up to and including 30 days.

To do this job, you must have the following licenses or certifications before being hired:

To do this job, you must have the following amount of total education and/or experience: (If hiring someone into this position, this would be the minimum amount of experience and education that would be required in order for the incumbent to have a reasonable expectation for success.)

Or an equivalent level of education and experience.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.75 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Arcadia, CA 91006: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: One location