Guest Room Attendant (Lodge)

Guests at a city business hotel in Pretoria West will never meet you, but they will judge the stay by your work. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

This post is Pretoria West-based, with most of your time spent at a city business hotel. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Load, wash, dry and press linen in the hotel laundry
• Keep your trolley stocked and neat before each shift
• Report maintenance faults like dripping taps or broken lights
• Do evening turndowns, closing curtains and setting out slippers
• Work through a room list, marking rooms clean on the housekeeping board
• Clean lobby, lifts and public toilets through the day

• Honest, since you work in guests' rooms alone
• Grade 10 or matric
• Available on weekends, holidays and in peak season
• Well groomed
• Friendly and polite if you meet guests in the corridor
• Physically able to push trolleys and turn mattresses

• Experience with industrial laundry machines
• Previous hotel or guesthouse housekeeping experience
• Speaking a foreign language for tourist guests

• Uniform supplied and laundered
• Meals on duty from the staff kitchen
• Share of the service charge or guest tips

• Mention seasonal availability for December and Easter. Coastal and lodge properties hire heavily before those peaks.
• Write how many rooms you usually cleaned per shift. Head housekeepers care about pace as much as quality.