Description
Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.
- • Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
- • Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
- • Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.
- • Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.
- • Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.
- • Dust and polish furniture and equipment.
- • Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
- • Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
- • Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.
- • Hang draperies and dust window blinds.
- • Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers.
- • Observe precautions required to protect hotel and guest property and report damage, theft, and found articles to supervisors.
- • Sort clothing and other articles, load washing machines, and iron and fold dried items.
- • Sort, count, and mark clean linens and store them in linen closets.
- • Polish silver accessories and metalwork, such as fixtures and fittings.
- • Prepare rooms for meetings and arrange decorations, media equipment, and furniture for social or business functions.
- • Request repair services and wait for repair workers to arrive.
- • Replace light bulbs.
- • Deliver television sets, ironing boards, baby cribs, and rollaway beds to guests' rooms.
- • Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
