Room Attendant
Job Description
Desert Palms Hotel & Suites is hiring a Room Attendant to keep guest suites clean, comfortable, and ready for arrival. In this onsite full-time role in Anaheim, CA, you will handle housekeeping and general janitorial tasks while maintaining a warm, friendly service attitude and meeting required safety and housekeeping standards.
Role Overview
As a Room Attendant, your day-to-day work focuses on cleaning guestrooms and supporting general janitorial needs across the hotel. You will work within guest suites, follow compliance and safety expectations, and contribute to a productive team environment across departments.
Key Responsibilities
- Clean guestrooms and support general janitorial needs of the hotel
- Maintain high standards of personal appearance and grooming, including wearing a name tag while working
- Maintain a warm, friendly demeanor while assisting clients, guests, managers, and coworkers
- Be attentive, courteous, and efficient in daily interactions
- Comply with compliance standards and regulations to support safe and efficient hotel operations
- Communicate and work well with fellow employees and other hotel departments
- Support guest requests with a helpful, willing attitude
- Demonstrate teamwork and a team-player attitude for the benefit of the hotel
- Complete essential housekeeping functions while meeting standards within the required 8-hour shift
- Perform pre-cleaning duties, including setting up housekeeping carts with guest supplies, cleaning supplies, and linen
- Prepare housekeeping carts for the next day’s use
- Remove trash and dirty linen from guest suites
- Keep hallways, public areas, and closets clean, neat, and vacuumed
- Report missing items from rooms (for example, irons/boards and hair dryers) to the Executive Housekeeper
- Follow Federal and State regulations related to handling hazardous materials
- Participate in all-employee meetings, events, and other functions required by management
- Follow hotel policies, rules, and hotel terminology
Requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively with a predominantly Spanish-speaking team
- Ability to understand and follow directions, guidelines, and work objectives set by the supervisor
- Understanding of potential hazards and procedures for working around commercial cleaning agents and light machinery
- Use common sense and integrity to help ensure the security of guest belongings
- Effectively listen to, understand, and clarify guest and coworker concerns
- Practice safe use of all cleaning agents
- Follow safety practices such as wearing personal protective equipment and reading chemical warning labels
- Ability to operate light equipment such as vacuum cleaners and dishwashers
- Capable of climbing and descending stairs during the shift
- Ability to work in an outside environment
- Long hours sometimes required
- Ability to carry and use a vacuum cleaner weighing approximately 15 pounds
- Ability to push an empty linen cart (approximately 90 pounds) and a loaded linen cart (approximately 150 pounds) in an outside environment
- Ability to use both hands for tasks such as changing bed linens
- Ability to reach overhead for tasks such as dusting, cleaning tops of equipment/appliances, and placing items in cupboards
- Ability to move light furniture (such as chairs and tables) to clean underneath
- Ability to bend over, stoop, and work on knees to support tasks such as scrubbing commodes and tubs and cleaning tiles
Language, Job Type, and Pay
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $18.00 - $19.00 per hour
- Work location: In person (onsite)
- Location: Anaheim, CA
- Language: Spanish (Required)
- Experience: Room Attendant, 1 year (Preferred)
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance