Housekeeper - Canterbury

Position:
Regular Full‑Time Property Maintenance – Canterbury Apartments, Mount Pleasant, MI, US

Requisition  (posted 14 days ago)

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Millennia Housing Management is seeking a housekeeper. The housekeeper is responsible for the overall upkeep of the property’s public areas, common areas, exteriors, vacant units, model units, floor care, and trash removal. The housekeeper also assists with litter pick‑up, sidewalk cleaning, snow removal, and maintenance and cleaning duties. The position reports to the Maintenance Supervisor (on properties with over 300 units) or Property Manager (on properties with less than 300 units).

• Read and carry out work orders and requests promptly, thoroughly, and efficiently.
• Carry out cleaning schedules and functions.
• Perform necessary inspections of exteriors, units, equipment, and systems to determine cleaning needed.
• Perform necessary inspections of grounds, parking, and fields to determine work needed.
• Perform a variety of grounds keeping functions.
• Record work, cleaning, and improvements performed.
• Inventory, care for and maintain cleaning products, equipment, materials, and other supplies owned by the property and/or the management company.
• Report unusual or extraordinary circumstances regarding the property or residents.
• Diagnose issues, replace or repair parts, test and adjust, and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
• Perform a variety of cleaning functions.
• Apply chemicals.
• Use a variety of hand and power tools in performing duties.
• Operate and comply with OSHA standards and company safety policies at all times. Maintain clean and orderly work areas.
• Maintain the required uniform and ensure a professional appearance and courteous attitude at all times.
• Assume other duties and responsibilities as may be delegated.
• This position requires regular and predictable attendance as an essential function of the job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High school education or equivalent.
• One year of experience working in maintenance, custodial, or grounds keeping role in any industry preferred.
• Excellent communication skills are critical, including verbal and written.
• Must possess superior customer service, communication, and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to analyze complex problems, propose workable solutions, and implement corrective actions in all situations.
• Able to influence effectively; gain support for new ideas and approaches across multiple stakeholders with varying agendas and shifting priorities.
• Excellent organizational skills.

• Work is performed indoors and outdoors in a residential setting with regular exposure to cold, heat, noise, people, and equipment.
• Able to work independently or as a team member and support managers with special projects.
• Strong collaboration skills – works well across functional areas, excellent relationship‑building skills; able to collaborate with various levels of the organization.
• The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Respect: Respect is shown by demonstrating a sense of self‑awareness and reflecting on one's own words and actions to adapt, grow, and succeed. We embrace our differences while recognizing what brings us together.
• Collaboration: Collaboration…