Guesthouse Housekeeper

Housekeeping at a city business hotel in Burgersfort is steady work with room to grow into supervising. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

This post is Burgersfort-based, with most of your time spent at a city business hotel.

• Strip and make beds to the hotel's standard, hospital corners included
• Report maintenance faults like dripping taps or broken lights
• Do evening turndowns, closing curtains and setting out slippers
• Clean bathrooms, replace towels and restock guest toiletries
• Vacuum, dust and check the minibar in each room

• Available on weekends, holidays and in peak season
• Quick and thorough, with a target of about 14 to 16 rooms a shift
• Friendly and polite if you meet guests in the corridor
• Well groomed
• Physically able to push trolleys and turn mattresses
• Honest, since you work in guests' rooms alone

• A hospitality short course or NQF Level 2 accommodation services certificate
• Experience with industrial laundry machines
• Speaking a foreign language for tourist guests

• Meals on duty from the staff kitchen
• Share of the service charge or guest tips
• Staff accommodation at remote lodges
• Uniform supplied and laundered

• Mention seasonal availability for December and Easter. Coastal and lodge properties hire heavily before those peaks.
• If you worked in a star-graded hotel, say which grading. It tells them the standard you already know.