We care about your career and are known for having the absolute best people in the industry. When you join us as Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations you start a unique opportunity to become celebrated as the very best in your field. You’ll learn not only from your fellow Legends, but also through our award-winning learning academy, so that you can achieve the highest standards of craft, service, and leadership and become a legend in your own story.
As Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations at The Beverly Hills Hotel, here are just some of the great benefits you will receive:
• Complimentary stays with breakfast included in all 10 Dorchester Collection hotels – stays of three night at one time and up to once a year at each hotel (subject to availability and seniority terms)
• 50% off at bars and restaurants within all of our Dorchester Collection hotels
• World class development opportunities (Service Excellence Training, Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging Trainings, Monthly Lunch & Learns)
• Social events throughout the year, including Quarterly Employee Appreciation Day events, Quarterly Employee Awards, Annual End of Year Gala
• Free Meals on Duty OR Workday Lunches in the form of a prepaid contactless card
• Exclusive Access to a discount platform featuring 1000s of retailers
• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision Benefit
• Competitive retirement scheme
As Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations at The Beverly Hills Hotel, your compensation will range between $85,000-$90,000 annually.
A day in the life of our Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations… it demands high levels of energy in order to keep up. They need consistency even though the days are never alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Listing all of the tasks that our Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know.
• Manages 10 to 12 subordinate managers and supervisors who supervise a total of 75 to 100 employees in the Housekeeping, Laundry and Uniform Departments.
• Recruits, interviews, hires, trains, recommends performance evaluations, resolves problems, provides open communication and recommends discipline and/or termination when appropriate
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
• Supervises team members to ensure completion of daily tasks and assists with further development of their potential within Dorchester Collection.
• Ensures seamless delivery of guest services & requests. Owns guests requests and PROmisses. Guest & employee engagement. Preventative maintenance projects. LRA audits, NEXUS service excellence metrics. Financial performance.
• Holds regular daily, weekly and monthly communication briefings with team members of all levels.
• Oversee’s the ordering of all supplies, inclusive of laundry, to ensure that levels are maintained and that purchasing is in line with budget
• Carry out inspections of rooms, public areas and back of house areas on a regular basis to ensure that high standards are maintained at all times.
• Ensure that linen is properly controlled, accounted for and ensure that quality of linen/laundry service is reviewed daily.
• Oversees the linen inventories with the Director of Housekeeping and Laundry Manager.
• Ensure that uniforms for all staff are maintained and controlled and coordinated with designers as required
• Propose and initiate when approved, new services and products for our guests.
• Work closely with Director of Engineering to oversee maintenance of all rooms and public areas as required
• Conduct regular maintenance walkthroughs of the property with engineering management to identify any areas that require remedial action and to coordinate the timely completion of such.
• Work constantly with the engineering management team to ensure that any out of order rooms are returned to inventory as soon as possible.
• Appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems in a timely and transparent manner.
The items shared are essential. However,to ensure consistency, our Assistant Director of Housekeeping & Laundry Operations is provided with specifics on how we care for their department and our hotel.
• You’ll bring your unique personality and passion to the role and the team.
• Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. You have great communication skills and a guest centric leadership style.
• Attention to detail is critical for this role.
• English is the primary language used in our hotel. You can comfortably communicate in this language.
• Empathetic, people focused. Positive approach to growing and leading teams.
• Ability to manage and motivate diverse team.
• Manage ambiguity and large volume of requests.