Cleaning and maintaining a private residence or commercial building to make sure that it meets any housekeeping sanitation requirements and provides a comfortable space for residents or employees.

Job Description and Duties

• Inspect vacated rooms to determine need to clean and maintain them


• Perform cleaning activities such as sweeping and mopping floors and ensuring that they are dried properly


• Strip beds, place fresh linen on them and ensure that dirty or soiled bedsheets are handed over to the laundry


• Empty waste paper bins and ashtrays and ensure that proper waste management procedures are followed, especially for kitchen waste


• Replenish supplies such as soap, shampoo, toilet paper and towels in bathrooms


• Wash and disinfect bathrooms on a daily basis by using the correct mixture of cleaning and sanitization liquids


• Clean and sanitize hallways, lobbies and offices and ensure that appropriate boards such as those to warn about wet floors are placed properly


• Perform maintenance work such as repairing loose wires and changing light bulbs


• Ascertain that housekeeping trolleys are properly stacked with supplies such as cleaning agents and cloths


• Transport dirty laundry to the washing area and ensure that clean laundry is delivered to guests in a timely manner


• Respond to guests’ requests for supplies and equipment such as irons and ironing boards and provide instructions on how to use them


• Clean closets and door tracks on check out rooms and ensure that correct amount of hangers are placed within


• Report any security issues or problems to the housekeeping head and ensure that any list items are identified and handed over to the lost and found department