Housekeeping Houseman

At The Las Olas Company / Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, FL, this Housekeeping Houseman role helps keep guest-facing areas clean, organized, and ready for daily service. You will support Room Attendants, maintain hallways and guestrooms, and handle housekeeping and linen upkeep across assigned storage and service spaces.

Onsite position in the Housekeeping department. Pay is USD 16–16 per hour.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist Room Attendants by stripping vacant rooms.
• Clean rugs, carpets, and upholstered furniture using a vacuum cleaner, broom, and shampoo machine.
• Sweep, mop, vacuum, strip, wax, and polish floors.
• Vacuum and/or sweep guest hallways daily.
• Clean balcony windows in C/O rooms daily.
• Clean rooms, hallways, and restrooms.
• Empty dirty linens from GRA carts, separating terry and linen.
• Receive linen supplies and housekeeping supplies.
• Distribute linen to closets.
• Clean and organize linen and supplies to storage closets daily.
• Wash wall and ceilings, move and arrange furniture, and turn mattresses.
• Clean elevator landings on guest floors, ice machine areas, and fore exits.
• Take items to guests when requested.
• Complete high dusting, heavy vacuuming, and general cleaning for HSKPG closets and guest hallways.
• Care for and maintain all equipment used to perform duties.
• Distribute monthly magazines to placement in rooms’ storage closets.

Reporting & Department

• Department: Housekeeping
• Position: Houseperson
• Reports to: Housekeeping Manager

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to taste or smell.
• Occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision and distance vision.
• Regular exposure to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasional exposure to wet and/or humid conditions; outside weather conditions and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equipment Used

• Broom, mop, vacuum cleaner
• Carpet extract/shampoo machine
• Washer, dryer
• Fabric steam machine
• Floor polish/buffing machine

Work Expectations Included in the Role

Perform any combination of tasks needed to maintain guestrooms, working areas, and hotel premises in a clean and orderly manner.

Exposure & Performance Factors

• Regular exposure to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasional exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, outside weather conditions, and vibration.
• Noise level usually moderate.