Lodge Housekeeper (Game Reserve)

Guests at a city business hotel in Burgersfort will never meet you, but they will judge the stay by your work. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

You'll be based at a city business hotel in Burgersfort. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

• Load, wash, dry and press linen in the hotel laundry
• Work through a room list, marking rooms clean on the housekeeping board
• Strip and make beds to the hotel's standard, hospital corners included
• Vacuum, dust and check the minibar in each room
• Clean bathrooms, replace towels and restock guest toiletries
• Do evening turndowns, closing curtains and setting out slippers

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

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

• Meals on duty from the staff kitchen
• Uniform supplied and laundered
• 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.