Guesthouse Housekeeper

Housekeeping at a city business hotel in Springs is steady work with room to grow into supervising. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is in Springs (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Report maintenance faults like dripping taps or broken lights
• Vacuum, dust and check the minibar in each room
• Work through a room list, marking rooms clean on the housekeeping board
• Clean lobby, lifts and public toilets through the day
• Load, wash, dry and press linen in the hotel laundry
• Clean bathrooms, replace towels and restock guest toiletries
• Keep your trolley stocked and neat before each shift

• Well groomed
• Friendly and polite if you meet guests in the corridor
• Quick and thorough, with a target of about 14 to 16 rooms a shift
• Honest, since you work in guests' rooms alone
• Physically able to push trolleys and turn mattresses
• Grade 10 or matric

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

• Write how many rooms you usually cleaned per shift. Head housekeepers care about pace as much as quality.
• If you worked in a star-graded hotel, say which grading. It tells them the standard you already know.