Laundry Attendant (Hotel Linen Room)

Check-out to check-in in under an hour, room after room, at a beachfront holiday resort in Montague Gardens. Good for someone who wants to build a solid track record they can put on their CV.

Location: Montague Gardens, Western Cape. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first.

• Log lost property with the guest's room number and date
• Clean lobby, lifts and public toilets through the day
• Load, wash, dry and press linen in the hotel laundry
• Do evening turndowns, closing curtains and setting out slippers
• Work through a room list, marking rooms clean on the housekeeping board
• Vacuum, dust and check the minibar in each room
• Clean bathrooms, replace towels and restock guest toiletries

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

• Speaking a foreign language for tourist guests
• Previous hotel or guesthouse housekeeping experience
• A hospitality short course or NQF Level 2 accommodation services certificate

• Uniform supplied and laundered
• Staff accommodation at remote lodges
• Share of the service charge or guest tips

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