Guesthouse Housekeeper

Check-out to check-in in under an hour, room after room, at a city business hotel in Germiston. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is Germiston-based, with most of your time spent at a city business hotel. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Report maintenance faults like dripping taps or broken lights
• Clean bathrooms, replace towels and restock guest toiletries
• Load, wash, dry and press linen in the hotel laundry
• Strip and make beds to the hotel's standard, hospital corners included
• Do evening turndowns, closing curtains and setting out slippers
• Vacuum, dust and check the minibar in each room
• Keep your trolley stocked and neat before each shift

• Available on weekends, holidays and in peak season
• Physically able to push trolleys and turn mattresses
• Quick and thorough, with a target of about 14 to 16 rooms a shift
• Honest, since you work in guests' rooms alone
• Grade 10 or matric
• Well groomed

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

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