**Additional Information** **Job Number** 25067828 **Job Category** Housekeeping & Laundry **Location** Sheraton Nouakchott Hotel, Avenue du Palais des Congres, Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania,VIEW ON MAP (https://www.google.com/maps?q=Sheraton%20Nouakchott%20Hotel%2C%20Avenue%20du%20Palais%20des%20Congres%2C%20Nouakchott%2C%20Nouakchott%2C%20Mauritania%2C) **Schedule** Full Time **Located Remotely?** N **Position Type** Management **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** **Education and Experience** • High school diploma or CAP; 3 years experience in the laundry, housekeeping, or related professional area. **CORE WORK ACTIVITIES** **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. • Works effectively with the Engineering department on Laundry equipment maintenance needs. • Participates in departmental meetings and continually communicates a clear and consistent message regarding the departmental goals to produce desired results. • Operates all department equipment as necessary and reports malfunctions. • Develops, maintains and uses effective back-up plans for breakdowns. • Evaluates and implements new techniques, supplies and equipment. **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. _Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. 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