Housekeeping Manager

Moxy Columbia Downtown
Columbia, SC

Opportunity for an experienced Executive Housekeeping Manager to join an Innovative & Excellent company!

Job overview

Energetic organized individual with previous Executive Housekeeper or Supervisor experience with a major brand.

What you will be doing

    • Obtains list of vacant rooms which need to be cleaned immediately and list of prospective check outs in order to prepare work assignments.
    • Assigns workers their duties, and inspects work for conformance to prescribed standards of cleanliness.
    • Advises manager or desk clerk of rooms ready for occupancy.
    • Inventories stock to ensure adequate supplies.
    • Issues supplies and equipment to workers and insures operational expenses are in line with budget.
    • Investigates complaints regarding housekeeping service and equipment, and takes corrective action.
    • Examines rooms, halls, and lobbies to determine need for repairs or replacement of furniture or equipment, and makes recommendations to management.
    • Supervises and oversees all the personnel issues relating to her/his department (hiring, firing, development reviews, training).
    • Conducts or training of new employees to explain housekeeping work procedures, and to demonstrate use and maintenance of equipment.
    • Attends training seminars to perfect housekeeping techniques and procedures, and enhance supervisory skills.
    • Records data concerning work assignments, personnel actions, and time cards, and prepares periodic reports. Attends periodic staff meetings.
    • To make recommendations to improve service and ensure more efficient operation.
    • Prepares reports concerning room occupancy, payroll expenses, and department expenses and develops action plans for items needing improvement.
    • Schedules staff according to labor standards and forecasted occupancy.
    • Trains standard procedures for the acceptance, security, and return on customer lost and found items.
    • Maintains standard procedures for security of on-loan equipment.
    • Maintains productivity and labor cost goals.
    • Administers inventories of linen, supplies and equipment as required.
    • Ensuring that customer requests for housekeeping services are provided in 30 minutes or less.
    • Lead by example in using customers name whenever possible, handling a customer problem in an empowered way.
    • Ensure maid carts are restocked in a clean and organized manner with 15 minutes from completing work.
    • Ensure maintenance concerns in rooms are communicated to you within 1 hour of time. 
    • Ensure items from lost and found are returned to the customer within 2 days of receiving call from customer.
    • Vacant and clean rooms are to be checked daily to insure their status is correct.
    • Housekeeping Report will be matched with the bucket daily and any discrepancies researched and documented.
    • Ensure all storerooms are kept clean, organized and secure at all times.
  • This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an associate in this position may be asked to perform from time to time 

Education & Experience

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two‑year college or technical school; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Six months to one year related experience  and /or training

Our Associates Love

  • Amazing opportunities for career advancement across HVMG
  • Flexible full-time and part-time schedules
  • Up to 40% earned wages paid BEFORE payday with PayActive
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays
  • Full Healthcare Benefits (including medical, dental, and vision coverage)
  • 401k Retirement Plan with a guaranteed 4% match and no vesting
  • Hotel and Food and Beverage Discounts and Perks

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We provide equal opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or disability. 

Moxy Columbia Downtown

128 Room Hotel

Our Hotel

The bright and open lobby layout is paired with contemporary furniture. The ''Plug and Meet'' gathering areas provide modern ergonomic seating, large writing walls and 85 inch televisions for presentationprojection. The lobby also boasts a state-of-the art video wall and 24/7 Food & Beverage offering a wide selection of snacks and drinks. Other hotel amenities include healthy continental breakfast, an evening bar featuring wines by the glass and local brews. All bedrooms are equipped with 55 inch flat screen televisions, build in USB ports and free Wifi.

Our Associates Love

  • Amazing opportunities for career advancement across HVMG
  • Flexible full-time and part-time schedules
  • Up to 40% earned wages paid BEFORE payday with PayActive
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays
  • Full Healthcare Benefits (including medical, dental, and vision coverage)
  • 401k Retirement Plan with a guaranteed 4% match and no vesting
  • Hotel and Food & Beverage Discounts and Perks

Careers at HVMG

HVMG is a successful and experienced hotel management company. Over the 20 years since our founding, we've worked with more than 100 hotels in 23 states, from premium branded properties to independent boutiques and resorts.

We are consistently listed among the top management companies in the hotel business, have won multiple Top Workplace awards, and most importantly, are obsessed with putting our associates first.

Our Be Excellent culture is more than just words on a website -- we live and breathe it. As one associate said in an anonymous survey, "This is the best management company I've ever worked for. They walk the talk from the corporate office to the field."

We believe that the hotel business is one of the few industries in which successful career paths can start anywhere on the org chart. You control your destiny, and, if our executives are any indication, today's dishwasher can be tomorrow's Senior Vice President.

HVMG participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.