Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and skilled Head Housekeeper to join our team at HotelJobs, assisting with the setup of a newly built private villa in Kurdistan, Iraq. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the housekeeping team to maintain impeccable standards and providing hands-on involvement when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and supervise daily/weekly cleaning schedules for all internal areas, ensuring consistent luxury-level standards and readiness whether family is in residence or not.
- Work hands-on when required to do so: detailed cleaning, care of luxury finishes, surfaces, artwork (with training), and specialist materials.
- Oversee laundry and wardrobe routines in coordination with the designated laundry/wardrobe housekeeper, including linens, towels and guest bedding rotation.
- Inspect rooms and back-of-house spaces, correcting defects, raising maintenance tickets, and following up until completion.
- Train, coach and performance-manage housekeepers, including cross-training into basic service and back-up roles for other departments.
- Manage housekeeping inventories, ordering supplies within agreed budgets and maintaining storerooms in an organized way.
- Collaborate closely with the Head Butler, Executive chef, Security Supervisor and Maintenance supervisor to coordinate schedules, deep cleans and event support.
Requirements
- 5-8+ Years in luxury hotels or UHNW households, including proven team-leading experience.
- Strong people management, eye for detail, and very high standards of discretion and confidentiality.
- Comfortable adapting to evolving SOPs as the Villa opens and operations are refined.
- Fluent English, flexible, team player.
Qualifications
- Formal education/certifications not specified in original description.
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