Housekeeping

About the role

The Housekeeper will be responsible for maintaining Gentex facilities with integrity and attention to detail, ensuring a clean and safe work environment for employees, customers, and visitors.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standards of cleanliness throughout assigned building, including restrooms, cafeteria break areas and plant offices
• Follow schedule of assigned tasks to be completed daily
• Perform routine indoor and outdoor housekeeping duties, including transporting refuse and recyclables to designated exterior disposal areas in all seasons and weather conditions
• Perform a variety of cleaning activities such as, but not limited to, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming and dusting
• Maintain supply levels in responsible areas and restock as needed
• Respond to customer complaints/requests with professionalism and patience
• Provide customer service to all individuals that utilize Gentex facilities
• Other duties as assigned

Work style & expectations

• Timeliness – Ability to consistently meet attendance and scheduling expectations
• Teamwork – Interacting with teammates in a way that promotes positive, inclusive and productive workplace culture and willingness to help current and new team members
• Quality of Work – Attention to detail in following work instructions, willingness to meet production output/expectations, and limit the number of quality errors including the ability to identify and correct these errors
• Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity and confidentiality with respect to company matters
• Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace

Requirements

• Ability to work independently and maintain a required level of performance
• Being customer-oriented and friendly
• Excellent prioritization and time management skills
• Ability to follow and stick to a strict daily schedule
• Ability to work efficiently without compromising quality
• Ability to work indoors and outdoors, as required, including exposure to seasonal weather conditions
• Honest and trustworthy
• Must take ownership in work with a positive attitude which is evident through good attendance, timeliness, and willingness to get involved
• Excellent attention to detail
• Physical endurance to cover large building spaces
• Comfortable maneuvering in and around furniture and fixtures (such as, but not limited to squatting, twisting, bending and kneeling) while using materials used in custodial work
• Ability to stand, remain stationary, and/or move about for 8 hours
• May require repetitive lifting up to 20 lbs
• May require the safe handling, utilization and disposal of chemicals, including alcohol, acetone, and other common cleaning agents
• May require frequent and/or repetitive bending, reaching, squatting or otherwise positioning the body

Preferred qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Custodial/housekeeping experience
• Good understanding of custodial/housekeeping cleaning materials