Housekeeper

About the role

Responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the campus and ensuring that visitors, residents, families, and staff have a positive impression. Additional duties include cleaning of common areas, project cleaning, seasonal cleaning duties, and weekly cleaning and laundry in resident’s rooms.

Responsibilities

• Provide consistent and quality work to the residents and staff.
• Maintain a clean and orderly work area and cleaning cart.
• Follow job routines and instructions according to the assigned housekeeping schedule.
• Assure resident apartment and laundry are clean and sanitized as scheduled.
• Maintain inventory for daily needs and notify supervisor of supply issues.
• Assist in keeping all common areas neat, clean, and safe.
• Follow the daily schedule to ensure all tasks are accomplished in a timely manner.
• Cleaning duties include, but are not limited to:
  • Vacuuming hallways, elevators, and furniture.
  • Washing inside glass doors and windows.
  • Sweeping and/or mopping floors.
  • Cleaning and stocking supplies in restrooms.
  • Dusting.
  • Rubbish/trash removal.
  • Washing/polishing woodwork and baseboards.
  • Seasonal duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of housekeeping/cleaning experience.
• Able to make responsible choices and decisions, and act in the resident’s best interest.
• Ability to motivate oneself and work independently.
• Ability to be flexible and work with other staff and residents.
• Knowledge of cleaning chemicals.
• Good work ethic.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Able to read, write, spell, do basic math, speak, and understand English.

Physical Requirements

Must be able to frequently perform tasks such as, but not limited to:

• Bend and squat to the floor to pick up debris, trash containers, and to use cleaning tools and products.
• See objects within 35 feet to monitor work areas (e.g., determine areas in need of cleaning).
• Interpret colors to read warnings, labels, wires, etc.

Must be able to continuously perform tasks such as, but not limited to:

• Move, push, pull, and/or lift objects weighing 10 to 25 pounds.
• Use hands and arms for simple grasping, pushing, and pulling to sweep, mop, and use containers of cleaning solution/chemicals.
• Perform tasks requiring actions of muscles or groups of muscles to walk, stoop, bend, lift, and carry objects.
• Walk and/or stand for prolonged periods of time.
• Speak clearly and make self understood in face-to-face interactions.
• See objects closely to read directions, instructions, chemical warnings, etc.
• Hear normal sounds and voices with some background noise to receive verbal instructions, answer telephones, and communicate with others.

Environment

Works indoors in a climate-controlled environment the majority of the time.

Schedule

This is a part-time position, Monday through Friday, 20 hours per week. Hours vary.