Loews Ventana Canyon Resort is hiring: Housekeeping Houseperson in Tucson

Relax and recharge at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, a top choice among Arizona luxury resorts. Whether you explore the best of Tucson or enjoy the stunning Catalina Mountain range, you can consider us your desert oasis. Welcome to a Sonoran Escape for the Senses.

To clean all public guest room areas of the hotel as assigned. To promote good public relations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Reports to work as scheduled, in proper uniform, in accordance with the company's personal appearance standards
• Consistently maintains a friendly positive attitude that ensures positive guest experience and giving recognition to returning guests.
• Follow and adhere to all policies and procedures as set forth by the Housekeeping Department
• Follows proper etiquette when communicating over the radio
• Respond, follow and close HotSOS and other requests when assigned to them by the proper usage of Rexx/ radio
• Responsible for helping room attendants by emptying trash and soiled linen from housekeeping carts
• Help maintain the following areas at all times: public rest rooms, hotel lobby levels, ashtrays , elevators and tracks, ice machine areas, stairwells, building entrance and hallways
• Handle guests with excellent guest relations skills
• Clean back-of-the-house windows as needed
• Vacuum guest hallways daily
• Use proper chemicals when cleaning as described by the department's procedures
• Attend all departmental meetings as scheduled
• Perform all duties in a timely and efficient manner
• Maintain linen closets clean, stock and organize
• Bring trash to compactor at the end of the day
• Responsible for washing guest room glassware and delivered to linen closets
• Responsible for bringing dirty glassware to housekeeping at the end of the shift
• Perform all other duties as directed by management that are consistent with the policies and procedures of the company
• Notifies immediate supervisors promptly and fully of all problems or unusual matters of significance
• Is polite, friendly, and helpful to the guests, management, and fellow team members
• Attends all appropriate hotel meetings and training sessions
• Maintains cleanliness and excellent condition of equipment, and work area
• Executes emergency procedures in accordance with hotel standards
• Complies with safety regulations and procedures
• Complies with hotel policies and rules
• Recycles whenever possible
• Remains current with hotel information and changes

Supportive Functions and Responsibilities

• Promotes and applies teamwork skills at all times
• Notifies appropriate individual promptly and fully of problems and/or unusual matters of significance
• Complies with hotel uniform and grooming standards

Qualifications

• Previous experience an asset
• Able to work as part of a dynamic quality-driven team
• Basic English language skills
• Requires extensive standing, walking, lifting and bending
• Able to push, stand, stoop, bend, and lift items weighing up to 150 pounds repetitively during entire shift
• Able to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays
• Must be customer-service orientated and have excellent hospitality skills

Physical Demands

It is required by this position that one will be:

• On their feet over 2/3 of the time
• Walking over 2/3 of the time
• Using hands to handle, feel or point over 2/3 of the time
• Stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling 1/3 of the time
• Using their listening and communication skills 2/3 of the time.
• Able to push, pull, and carry 150 lbs

There are special vision requirements that we ask for and they are:

• Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)