Housekeeper

Do you love cleaning? Then this position is right for you! We are looking for a skilled housekeeper to join our team Monday to Friday, 3:00pm to 11:00pm!

Housekeepers play a vital role in maintaining the cleanliness and organization of residential or commercial spaces. Their responsibilities typically include cleaning and sanitizing rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and other areas, as well as dusting, vacuuming, and mopping floors. Housekeepers not only clean but make a comfortable living for our clients and staff at OLV! 🧹🧽😁

Benefits/Perks:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Health, dental & vision insurance options
• Paid Employer sponsored life insurance
• Supplemental insurance programs for additional life insurance, short-term disability, accident & cancer insurance
• Up to $600 every year for completing biometric health screenings on a single health insurance plan & up to $1,200 if a spouse completes too!
• Free dental insurance (for Full Time employees and their families)

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 3:00pm to 11:00pm. 

Salary range(dependent on years of experience): $15.00 - $25.50/ per hour. 

Responsible to: Environmental Service Manager

Job Summary:
The Lead Housekeeper has oversight in the scheduling of housekeeping projects and directing their completion. This position entails traveling to the IRA’s in the community to evaluate and prioritize the cleaning needs of each site.  The lead housekeeper will work independently with minimal supervision to ensure all sites are kept in a clean and sanitary condition.  This person will be responsible for ordering supplies and equipment as well as collaborating with maintenance and vendors for building needs.  The lead housekeeper must have experience operating commercial cleaning equipment and strong knowledge of cleaning chemicals and building finishes.    

Essential Job Duties:
• Oversees the scheduling and completion of special housekeeping projects such as floor care, carpet cleaning, emergency clean up, etc.
• Ability to inspect property sites to determine unsafe and unsanitary conditions
• Evaluates and prioritizes cleaning tasks at various sites and develops cleaning schedules to meet the prioritized needs.
• Work independently
• Work with vendors and maintenance staff to lead housekeeping projects
• Collaborate with co-workers for building needs  
• Completes monthly PMS Inspections of all OPWDD Sites (e.g. Fire extinguishers, dryer vents, etc.)
• Ability to recognize problems, initiate action and to facilitate solutions.
• Ability to appropriately operate and maintain floor scrubbers, buffers, carpet cleaners and other heavier equipment.
• Orders cleaning supplies and maintains appropriate inventory.
• Creates work orders for the building needs
• Identify various building finishes and develop plan of how to properly clean/maintain
• Assist in new hire interview and orientation process
• Performs any other duties assigned by supervisor
 
Skills:
• Ability to read and write
• Ability to understand and follow directions
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with staff
• Experience and knowledge using  and maintaining  housekeeping equipment
• Organizational and time management skills
 
Competencies:
• Attention to detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks
• Integrity, respect, confidentiality: Instills mutual trust and confidence, creates a culture that fosters high standards of ethics, behaves in a fair and ethical manner toward others
• Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms
• Analytical Thinking: The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach
• Communication: Oral and written
• Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations
• Teamwork ability: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job
 
Education:
Minimum Degree Required: High School Diploma or GED
 
Experience:
6-9 years
 
Required License/Registration/ Certification: Valid New York State Drivers License
 
Physical Requirements: 
• The constant physical demands of the position are lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, balancing, stooping, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling
• The frequent physical demands of the position are standing, walking, climbing, talking, hearing, repetitive motions, and eye/hand/foot coordination.
• The occasional physical demand of the position is sitting.