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U.S. Department of Labor
Settore: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who cleans hospital patient rooms, baths, laboratories, offices, halls, and other areas. Respnsibilities include: * Washes beds and mattresses, and remakes beds after dismissal of patients. * Keeps utility and storage rooms in clean and orderly condition. * Distributes laundered articles and linens. * Replaces soiled drapes and cubicle curtains. * Performs other duties as described under cleaner i master title. * May disinfect and sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides and sterilizing equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans rooms and halls in commercial establishments, such as hotels, restaurants, clubs, beauty parlors, and dormitories, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include: * Sorts, counts, folds, marks, or carries linens. * Makes beds. * Replenishes supplies, such as drinking glasses and writing supplies. * Checks wraps and renders personal assistance to patrons. * Moves furniture, hangs drapes, and rolls carpets. * Performs other duties as described under cleaner i master title. * May be designated according to type of establishment cleaned as Beauty Parlor Cleaner; Motel Cleaner; or according to area cleaned as Sleeping Room Cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans rooms and halls in commercial establishments, such as hotels, restaurants, clubs, beauty parlors, and dormitories, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include: * Sorts, counts, folds, marks, or carries linens. * Makes beds. * Replenishes supplies, such as drinking glasses and writing supplies. * Checks wraps and renders personal assistance to patrons. * Moves furniture, hangs drapes, and rolls carpets. * Performs other duties as described under cleaner i master title. * May be designated according to type of establishment cleaned as Beauty Parlor Cleaner; Motel Cleaner; or according to area cleaned as Sleeping Room Cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to maintain hotel premises in clean and orderly manner. Respnsibilities include: * Moves and arranges furniture. * Turns mattresses. * Hangs draperies. * Dusts venetian blinds. * Polishes metalwork. * Prepares sample rooms for sales meetings. * Arranges decorations, apparatus, or furniture for banquets and social functions. * Collects soiled linens for laundering, and receives and stores linen supplies in linen closet. * Performs other duties as described under cleaner i master title. * May deliver television sets, ironing boards, baby cribs, and rollaway beds to guests rooms. * May clean swimming pool with vacuum. * May clean and remove debris from driveway and garage areas. * May be designated according to specialization as Curtain Cleaner; Housecleaner, Floor; Linen-Room Worker; Porter, Lobby; Vacuum Worker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and directs activities of baggage porters engaged in handling baggage and related work for hotel patrons. Respnsibilities include: * Adjusts work schedules according to work load and makes individual task assignments. * Advises baggage porters of action to be taken in response to unusual requests. * Resolves guests' complaints pertaining to conduct of baggage porters and lost or mishandled baggage. * May perform personnel duties, such as screening, hiring, giving directions to new workers, and maintaining time records. * May give travel information. * May act as agent for transportation company. * May participate in baggage handling activities and setting up sample rooms.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises bellhops engaged in duties, such as paging, running errands, and giving information. * Calls bellhops to escort guests to rooms or perform related services. * Determines work schedules and keeps time records. * Inspects workers for neatness and uniform dress. * Instructs workers in procedures regarding requests from guests, utilizing knowledge of hotel facilities and local merchants and attractions. * Furnishes information, makes reservations, and obtains tickets for guests to social and recreational events or for travel. * May report suspicious behavior of patrons to hotel security personnel. * May pick up and bundle guests' laundry for outside cleaning service. * May perform duties of subordinates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers luggage to and from hotel rooms, sets up sample rooms for sales personnel and performs related services as requested by guest or baggage porter, head. * Transfers trunks, packages, and other baggage to room or loading area, using handtruck. * Arranges for outgoing freight, express or mail shipments, computes charges, tags article, and records information, such as addressee, addressor, carrier, and charges, on specified forms. * Sets up display tables, racks, or shelves and assists sales personnel in unpacking and arranging merchandise display. * May supply guests with travel information, such as transportation rates, routes, and schedules. * May escort incoming guest to room. * May arrange for cleaning, laundering, and repair of guests' clothing and other items. * May compute charge slips for services rendered guests and forwards slips to bookkeeping department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers luggage to and from hotel rooms, sets up sample rooms for sales personnel and performs related services as requested by guest or baggage porter, head. * Transfers trunks, packages, and other baggage to room or loading area, using handtruck. * Arranges for outgoing freight, express or mail shipments, computes charges, tags article, and records information, such as addressee, addressor, carrier, and charges, on specified forms. * Sets up display tables, racks, or shelves and assists sales personnel in unpacking and arranging merchandise display. * May supply guests with travel information, such as transportation rates, routes, and schedules. * May escort incoming guest to room. * May arrange for cleaning, laundering, and repair of guests' clothing and other items. * May compute charge slips for services rendered guests and forwards slips to bookkeeping department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks related to serving guests in apartment hotels. Respnsibilities include: * Delivers and removes packages, laundry, clothes, groceries, and other articles to and from guests rooms or servidors (cabinets built into doors of hotel rooms). * Collects supply orders from various departments and delivers to purchasing agent. * Delivers mail to various departments and guests. * Records information pertaining to services rendered. * May arrange for pressing clothes and shining shoes, sending and receiving packages, and in maintaining valet service. * May press clothes and shine shoes. * May supervise activities of workers engaged in delivering packages to hotel guests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to serve hotel guests. Respnsibilities include: * Escorts incoming hotel guests to rooms, assists with hand luggage, and offers information pertaining to available services and facilities of hotel, points of interest, and entertainment attractions. * Inspects guest's room to ensure furnishings are in order and supplies are adequate. * Explains features of room, such as operation of radio, television, and night-lock, and how to place telephone calls. * Pages guests in lobby, dining room, or other parts of hotel. * Delivers messages and runs errands. * Delivers room service orders. * Picks up articles for laundry and valet service. * Calls taxi for guests. * Transports guests about premises or local areas in car or motorized cart. * Keeps record of calls for service. * Delivers packages, suitcases, and trunks, and sets up sample rooms. * Tidies lobby. * Operates elevator. * May be known as Page when paging guests.
Industry:Professional careers