Laundry Manager
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About the Role
Le Meridien in Doha seeks a Laundry Manager to oversee daily laundry operations, including washing, drying, and ironing linen for guest rooms and Food and Beverage/Culinary Department.
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Responsibilities
- Manage daily laundry operations and services, including washing, drying, and ironing linen for guest rooms and Food and Beverage/Culinary Department
- Supervise and manage employees, ensuring quality standards and customer expectations are met
- Manage department budgets, operating statements, and payroll progress reports
- Order and manage necessary supplies, ensuring workers have supplies, equipment, tools, and uniforms
- Ensure compliance with safety procedures and policies
- Operate all department equipment as necessary and report malfunctions
- Develop and maintain effective back up plans for breakdowns
- Recruit, interview, select, hire, and promote employees
- Manage employee performance appraisal process and progressive discipline procedures
- Celebrate successes and publicly recognize contributions of team members
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED
- 2 years experience in laundry, housekeeping, or related professional area
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Job Summary
- Responsible for hotel laundry daily operations and services.
- Position directs and works with employees to wash, dry and iron linen for both guest rooms and Food and Beverage/Culinary Department within existing time constraints.
- Maintains a safe and clean work environment.
- Position strives to ensure guest and employee satisfaction while maximizing the department financial performance.
Candidate Profile
- High school diploma or GED; 2 years experience in the laundry, housekeeping, or related professional area.
Managing Department Operations and Budgets
- Managing day to day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
- Supervising and managing employees. Managing all day to day operations. Understanding employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.
- Communicating the importance of safety procedures, detailing procedure codes, ensuring employee understanding of safety codes, monitoring processes and procedures related to safety.
- Comprehends budgets, operating statements and payroll progress reports as needed to assist in the financial management of department.
- Ensures consistent workflow to minimize peaks and valleys in production.
- Brings issues to the attention of the department manager and Human Resources as necessary.
- Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Supervises daily Laundry shift operations and ensures compliance with all policies, standards and procedures.
- Ordering and managing necessary supplies. Ensuring workers have supplies, equipment, tools, and uniforms necessary to do their jobs.
- Orders cleaning supplies and uniforms within budget.
- Understands the impact of department’s operations on the overall hotel financial goals and objectives and manages to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.
- Participates in the management of department’s controllable expenses to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.
Leading Discipline Teams
- Ensuring and maintaining the productivity level of employees.
- Utilizing interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
Providing and Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service
- Providing services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
- Improving service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
- Sets a positive example for guest relations.
- Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
Managing and Conducting Human Resources Activities
- Ensuring employee success and event success recognitions are taking place in all shifts.
- Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in the organization.
- Supervises staffing levels to ensure that operational needs and financial objectives are met.
- Effectively schedules employees to business demands and tracks employee time and attendance.
- Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an “open door” policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
- Manages employee progressive discipline procedures.
- Manages the employee performance appraisal process.
- Ensures hotel policies are administered fairly and consistently, disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures (SOPs and LSOPs) and support the Peer Review Process.
- Celebrates successes and publicly recognizes the contributions of team members; ensures employee recognition is taking place on all shifts.
About Marriott International
- Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity.
- We are committed to non discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.
About Le Méridien
- Le Méridien is inspired by the era of glamorous travel, celebrating each culture through the distinctly European spirit of savouring the good life.
- We provide authentic, chic and memorable service along with experiences that inspire guests to savour the good life.
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