Hotel Valet Attendant - PM Shifts - Weekends Required - $16.80/HR + Tips - AC Hotel Portland Downtown

Summary

The Guest Service Associate is responsible for providing exceptional hospitality services to guests in an attentive, friendly, and efficient manner. The role involves parking and retrieving guest vehicles, assisting with luggage, and handling various inquiries.

Essential Functions

• Maintains a pleasant, friendly, and professional demeanor with all guests, co-workers, and clients.
• Acknowledges and greets guests within five feet with a professional and friendly demeanor.
• Uses guest last names during interactions.
• Parks and retrieves vehicles while driving slowly and cautiously.
• Assists guests with bell services and luggage storage as needed.
• Opens all vehicle and hotel doors for guests.
• Assists guests with directions, taxis, reservations, and other inquiries.
• Provides guests with information about outlets, meeting rooms, and amenities of the facility as well as main attractions in the area.
• Delivers messages, items, and/or guest amenities as requested.
• Shuttles guests to appropriate places that are approved by the location.
• Explains parking rates and retrieval procedures to guests upon arrival.
• Issues claim checks only after receiving vehicle keys and collects claim checks from all guests prior to issuing keys.
• Consistently completes and maintains all ticket information including key tag, guest folio, location of vehicle, damage survey, and claim check receipt from all vehicles taken into the valet system.
• Consistently completes location on all key tags after parking vehicle.
• Calculates and collects revenue for vehicles when needed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Valid driver's license for the state you are applying to work, or within a commutable distance from the state you are applying to work (as applicable)
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services
• Ability to read and write standard English language
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos
• Ability to write simple correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to guests, clients and other employees of the organization
• Ability to add and subtract three digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s; ability to perform these operations using units of American money
• Understanding of 24 hour and military time systems
• Understanding of rates applicable to time passed
• Manual transmission operating ability highly desirable
• Ability to perform parallel parking

Scope

• Authority to Act: Fairly routine. Incumbent follows established practices and procedures. Duties are performed with specific directions given and work is checked or verified on a frequent basis. Decisions are made within specific operational instructions and departmental guidelines. Errors in judgment could affect the smooth and efficient operation of the department.
• Budget Responsibility: The employee has control over resources available only.

Compensation

Towne Park is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location. The hourly base pay range for this position is $16.80 per hour plus tips.

Schedule

The work schedule for this position is PM shifts - weekends required.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to enroll in accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, and telemedicine benefits.
• Employees are also able to enroll in the company’s 401k retirement savings plan.
• Eligibility requirements depend on your job classification, length of employment and number of hours worked. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
• Seasonal and temporary roles are not eligible for benefits outlined above.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

• The working conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit or stand for extended periods of time and may be required to run; walk; handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Lifting Requirements: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Environment: The majority of work will be performed outdoors for extended periods of time including up to the entire duration of shift. Employees are subject to environmental conditions including extreme heat and cold weather. Protection from weather conditions may be provided, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• Travel: Travel of up to 5% may be required.