About the Role
Responds to arriving, departing, and in-house guests by providing accurate and timely information and services. Handles telephone and in-person inquiries regarding reservations, hotel information, and guest concerns, ensuring a positive guest experience.
Responsibilities
- Greet and welcome guests upon arrival.
- Register guests into the computer, verifying reservation, address, and credit information.
- Promote preferred guest program and provide recognition and benefits to current members.
- Accept payment for guests’ accounts at registration and checkout.
- Maintain a house bank and make a deposit and accurate report of receipts daily.
- Cash checks and exchange currency for guests.
- Issue key to and control entrance of safety deposit boxes.
- Post miscellaneous charges as requested.
- Promptly respond to and resolve guest complaints.
- Answer telephone promptly and politely.
- Take reservations accurately and efficiently.
- Perform check-ins accurately and efficiently.
- Perform check-outs accurately and efficiently.
- Greet and seat all guests, ensuring a quality dining experience.
- Greet every guest with a smile and positive attitude.
- Deal with all guests in a professional, consistent manner.
- Handle difficult situations and people diplomatically.
- Provide a safe working environment by ensuring compliance with safety programs, Health Department requirements, and job safety analysis.
- Maintain and enforce sanitation laws and safety standards.
- Assist guests with luggage upon arrival and departure.
- Use guests’ names.
- Be knowledgeable and helpful about the local area, the hotel, and hotel services.
- Handle messages, wake-up calls, mail, and faxes properly.
- Assist guests with laundry/dry cleaning needs.
- Be aware of incoming VIPs.
- Follow all applicable Company Standard Operating Procedures.
- Perform other assignments as directed by the General Manager.
- Be an enthusiastic, helpful, and positive team member.
- Be professional, responsible, and mature in conduct and behavior.
- Be understanding of, encouraging to, and friendly with all co-workers.
- Be self-motivated and use time wisely.
- Maintain open lines of communication with each department.
- Communicate pertinent information.
- Respond positively to new ideas.
- Openly accept critical/developmental feedback.
- Maintain effective communication through meetings, log books, and bulletins.
- Be available to help other departments in emergency situations.
- Adhere to all work rules, procedures, and policies established by the company.
- Properly handle and account for keys.
- Be knowledgeable of policies regarding emergency procedures and security concerns.
- Seek and react to opportunities to sell rooms, including re-rents and last rooms available.
- Have complete knowledge of hotel rooms, function space, restaurant, other outlets, and services.
- Regularly restock and sell pantry items.
- Increase revenues by offering customers upgraded rooms and promoting hotel amenities and outlets.
- Have a full understanding of franchise honors program.
- Ensure all customers establish credit upon check-in.
- Improve timeliness of cash flow by adhering to credit and inventory control procedures.
- Verify all information on reservations check-in.
- Obtain proper name and address verification and approval codes for cash and credit card paying customers.
- Identify and record special billing instructions and notify accounting.
- Complete shift closing accurately by getting appropriate approval signatures and authorization codes.
- Adhere to hotel policies regarding the use of cash banks.
- Stay current with hotel developments by reviewing the communication log book each shift.
- Update log book for the next shift.
- Report potential sales contacts to the sales department.
- Protect guests’ room numbers.
Requirements
- High School diploma /Secondary qualification or equivalent.
- Experience with Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Wyndham or Hyatt processes and standards.
- Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace.
- Must be able to read and write to facilitate the communication process.
- Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Must possess basic computational ability.
- Must possess basic computer skills.
- Extensive knowledge of the hotel, its services and facilities.
- General knowledge of the city where hotel is located and its attractions.
- Most work tasks are performed indoors. Temperature is moderate and controlled by hotel environmental systems.
- Must be able to stand and exert well-paced mobility for up to 4 hours in length.
- Must be able to exert well-paced ability to reach other departments of the hotel on a timely basis.
- Must be able to lift up to 20 lbs occasionally.
- Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity.
- Talking and hearing occur continuously in the process of communicating with guests, supervisors and subordinates.
- Vision occurs continuously with the most common visual functions being those of near vision and depth perception.
- Ability to spend extended lengths of time viewing a computer screen.
- Requires manual dexterity to use and operate all necessary equipment.
- Must have finger dexterity to be able to operate office equipment.
- Being passionate about people and service.
- Strong communication skills are essential when interacting with guests and employees.
- Reading and writing abilities are used often when completing paperwork, logging issues/complaints/requests/information updates, etc.
- Basic math skills are used frequently when handling cash or credit.
- Problem-solving, reasoning, motivating, and training abilities are often used.
- Have the ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends and/or holidays.
Skills
- Opera Cloud experience is preferred.
Location
- Buffalo NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- High School diploma /Secondary qualification or equivalent.
Salary/Compensations
- $20-$22 per hour
Benefits
- Team Driven and Values Based Culture
- Same-day pay available
- Employee Assistance Program
- Career Growth Opportunities/ Manager Training Program
- Reduced Room Rates throughout the portfolio
- Third Party Perks (Movie Tickets, Attractions, Other)
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Parental leave
- Referral program
About the Company
- Hotel Equities, a multi-award-winning hotel development and hospitality management company.
