Assistant Housekeeping Supervisor - InterContinental Singapore

Your day-to-day

Direct, guide and manage room attendants and public area attendants to ensure all guestrooms, public areas and heart-of-house locations are maintained to the highest standard of cleanliness and tidiness for safety and comfort for all guest at all times.

Alert, well informed about the Hotel and able to organize their work during peak hours rapidly by maintaining a constant standard of performance regardless of volumes of business in operations.  

Assist in job training, grooming standard, conduct of colleagues and ensures Housekeeping colleagues act according to Hotel rules and regulations as well as the established policies and procedures

Maintains the highest standard of personal hygiene and appearance at all times by him/her and colleagues assigned to him/her.  

Supervise, train & retain existing and new Colleagues with a standardized method-on the job training to ensure exceptional cleaning standards are met.

Attends and represents his/her colleagues at Housekeeping meetings, maintaining effective communication within the department.  

Ensures all colleagues assigned to him/her, starts on time, in clean uniforms, shoes and name badges, understanding they represent the Hotel.

Ensure that assigned hours of work are maintained and report any misconduct immediately to the direct manager.  

Is responsible for proper room and/or public area attendant assignments, full accomplishment of tasks, allocation of extra duties to the number of rooms credited upon.

Ensures room and public area attendants are following room cleaning priorities strictly.

Ensures VIP rooms are correctly supplied, checked and released on time to Front Office.

Inspects each room on his assigned floor, whether Vacant, Occupied, Check Out or Out Of Service as well as corridors, service areas and emergency staircases.

Report maintenance issues within their assigned area to Housekeeping office immediately and follows up upon completion.  

Notifies Executive/Assistant Executive Housekeeper when damage or theft to the Hotel property has occurred, whether caused by guests or colleagues.

Ensures lost & found property is handed into Housekeeping immediately without any delay.

Ensures all fire staircases, services areas and fire exits remain obstruction free.  

Supervisors to communicate with Coordinator/supervisor in Housekeeping office and peer on room issues such as maintenance defects, cleanliness not up to standard, whereby the room is not ready to release as vacant clean/inspected.

Floor Supervisor at all time to communicate directly with coordinator, Supervisor or Assistant Executive Housekeeper.  

Advises Assistant Executive Housekeeper/Executive Housekeeper if colleague performance is not satisfactory for coaching and performance management.

Flexible to work different shifts and assumes other duties assigned by the Assistant Housekeeper from time to time.

What we need from you

Great communication and interpersonal skills.  

Great understanding in Housekeeping operations.  

Relevant experience as a Room Attendant.  

Carrying or lifting items weighing up to 50 pounds  

Computer literate (excel, word, office)