Director of Housekeeping

InnVentures Overview:

Driven by an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit, InnVentures has a culture of building teams that produce winning results. We operate over 75 hotels in 20+ states for some of the Nation’s largest REIT’s and private real estate owners, in addition to a large portfolio of individual and family-owned hotels. Throughout our 40-year history we have established proven methods of management, development, and revenue maximization resulting in a trusted acumen for operating major hotel brands.

Location:

Homewood Suites Windsor Locks, CT

Overview:

Some of our guests love being on the road but many travelers miss the comforts of home. The goal of our Housekeeping team is to make our hotel feel like just that, a home! As a Director of Housekeeping, your role is to motivate your team to deliver their best work every day to ensure that our guests have a comfortable and memorable stay.

 

We offer eligible employees a number of benefits to enhance their health and well-being:

• Group insurance, including medical, dental, vision and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off
• Company-matched 401(k) plan
• Voluntary benefits including short term disability, long term disability, accident, life, critical illness and Flexible Spending Account
• Life enrichment benefits including hotel benefits, employee assistance program, leadership development program and more!
• Get paid daily

Responsibilities:

• Hire, train, supervise, counsel, motivate and recognize the housekeeping staff.
• Oversee daily operations, sustainability programs, inventory, ordering, and scheduling all within a set department budget.
• Inspect work performed by the housekeeping staff to ensure quality and cleanliness is top notch and consistent with brand standards.
• Greet and assist guests with all requests. Proactively garner relationships with long term and repeat guests to develop loyalty and maintain satisfaction.
• Work closely with the Maintenance Department and Front Desk to achieve a consistent, high quality product resulting in above average customer satisfaction scores.
• Ensure safe working practices and procedures are followed by all employees while maintaining department productivity requirements.

Qualifications:

Previous housekeeping and supervisory experience in hospitality, property management or healthcare is required. To be successful in this role, you need strong verbal and written communication skills. This job requires continuous movement, regularly bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, and moving up to 25 pounds. You must also be able to stand and walk for an entire shift and perform repetitive motions, including climbing up to four flights of stairs. Applicants must be available to work a flexible schedule including weekends and holidays.