Executive Housekeeper at Bolton White Group

Bolton White Group is a group of hospitality brands providing exceptional services across all our business units. Our team is dedicated to providing a wide range of clients with world-class services. Bolton White Group is well regarded for its focus on international best practices in all aspects of its business.

Bolton White Group is an independent entrepreneurial-driven institution offering a complete range of hospitality services with a focus on providing a ‘home away from home’ experience to our clients. By choosing to join Bolton White Group you have assumed your share of the responsibility for maintaining the high principles and standards to which we are dedicated.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Executive Housekeeper

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Summary

• Supervises all housekeeping employees, plans and assigns work assignments, give training for newly recruited and all employees, audit and inspects housekeeping personal work assignment, and requisition supplies.
• Take care of the budget and budget control for the department.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervises all housekeeping employees, and takes disciplinary actions when policies are not followed. Evaluates employees in order to upgrade them when openings arise.
• Plans the work for the housekeeping department and distributes assignments accordingly. Assigns regular duties and special duties for the housekeeping staff. Schedules employees and assigns extra days off according to occupancy forecast. Maintains a time logbook of all employees within the department.
• Assign new employees to work with experienced help. Checks on the work of these employees occasionally and observes the reports made by the supervisors.

Responsibility & Authority:

• Responsible for cleanliness, orderliness, and appearance of the entire Hotel.
• Ensure that rooms are made as per company standards.
• Prepare Annual Housekeeping Budget.
• Maintain par stock of guest supplies, cleaning supplies, linen and uniforms.
• Organize inventories with Accounts and General Store for linen, uniform, and fixed assets.
• Pay particular attention while organizing pest eradication activities.
• Develop and implement housekeeping systems and procedures
• Prepare reports for management information.
• Assist the Purchase department in selecting suppliers for items related to Housekeeping.
• Plan, control, and supervise Horticultural activities.
• Attending and resolving guest complaints.
• Verification of supplies consignments.
• Organize on-the-job training and evaluate its effectiveness.
• Approval of the Functional Manual of the department.
• Recommend recruitment of new personnel.

Other Routine Responsibilities:

• Daily inspection of public areas and employees' locker rooms.
• Daily briefing of Supervisors/ Executives.
• Coordinating the preventive maintenance schedule of rooms and public areas with the maintenance department.
• Immediately attending to guest requests.

Requirements
Education:

• A Bachelor Degree in a relevant field.

Experience:

• 8 to 10 years of experience of which at least 2 to 3 years in a similar role.
• Strong Operational/Technical Knowledge.
• Successful Pre-opening experience & records a distinct advantage.

Prerequisites:

• Strong Leadership abilities and organizational skills, Entrepreneurial, thinks out of the box, and Able to drive change and look for operational efficiencies/synergies across the network.

Application Closing Date
23rd October, 2023.