Assistant Housekeeping Manager - Healthcare - Long Beach, CA

Description ARAMARK is a leader in professional services, providing award-winning food services, facilities management, and clinical technology services to over 1300 health care institutions. ARAMARK Healthcare provides support services that are core to the patient care process and directly impact the entire healthcare continuum. Ultimately, the culture created makes quality care possible. Patient satisfaction, employee retention, patient throughput, operational efficiency - it's all connected. No one understands this better than ARAMARK. That's why we are at the core of quality healthcare.
 
In FORTUNE magazine's 2009 list of "World's Most Admired Companies," ARAMARK was ranked number one in its industry, consistently ranking since 1998 as one of the top three most admired companies in its industry as evaluated by peers and analysts.
 
Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately 260,000 employees serving clients in 22 countries. ARAMARK provides an excellent career path, competitive salary and benefit package and a great environment in which to work.  Learn more at the company's Web site, www.aramarkhealthcare.com

 
SUMMARY - Assistant Housekeeping Manager
 
Provides work leadership to hourly employees in completion of their job duties in environmental services within an area, location or building.
 
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
 
Maintains friendly, efficient Spirit of Service attitude towards customers, co-workers and clients.
 
Supervises and coordinates staff assignments to ensure efficient and high quality environmental services.
 
Assists in employee training, hiring, terminations, counseling, coaching and motivation.  Assists in maintaining an accurate record keeping system for employees' time cards.
 
Executes established company policies, guidelines and procedures to achieve Total Quality Management requirements.
 
Instructs and trains employees.
 
Plans and coordinates expenditures for supplies and equipment.
 
Adheres to all departmental sanitation procedures.
 
Performs environmental services functions on an as needed basis.
 
Adheres to all established systems and training programs to provide a safe working environment.  Complies with all OSHA regulations and other local, state and federal government regulations.
 
Recognizes and adopts activities appropriate to the specific needs of the patient/resident population and demonstrates knowledge of specific issues directly related to age of patient/resident population.
 
Maintains compliance with ARAMARK's standards of operation, client contract and within ARAMARK's Business Conduct Policy.  Maintains all records and reports necessary to comply with ARAMARK/HSS, government and accrediting agency standards, regulations and codes.
 
Maintains compliance with all requirements of Federal, State and local regulations and guidelines including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination Act, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended.
 
Performs all other related duties.

Requirements To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
Requires a high school diploma. Bachelor's Degree preferred.  Will consider recent college graduates.  Ability to communicate (both verbal and written) effectively. Ability to apply elementary math functions.  Ability to work well under time constraints.  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Intermediate to advanced computer skills required.