Housekeeping Supervisor

Title: Housekeeping Supervisor

State Role Title: Housekeeping and/or Apparel Worker II

Hiring Range: $43,000

Pay Band: 2

Agency: The Science Museum of Virginia

Location: Broad Street Station

Agency Website: https://smv.org/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Science Museum of Virginia seeks a motivated and diligent Housekeeping Supervisor with a passion for cleanliness, leadership, and ensuring an exceptional experience for guests.

As a Housekeeping Supervisor, you will lead a dedicated team of housekeeping staff, ensuring all museum spaces are prepared and spotless for guests, staff, and special events. You’ll work closely with the team to uphold the museum’s cleanliness standards while staying aligned with the dynamic nature of museum operations. This is a working supervisor position, meaning you’ll lead by example, actively participating in the cleaning tasks alongside your team. Some key responsibilities include but are not limited to: overseeing and assigning housekeeping tasks to staff, ensuring cleanliness standards are consistently met; inspect completed tasks to verify the quality of work and ensure high standards; managing staff schedules, including shift assignments and organizing replacements as necessary; addressing and resolving any complaints related to housekeeping services promptly and professionally; regularly check the inventory of cleaning supplies and place orders when stock is low; performing hands-on cleaning duties when necessary and participate in large cleaning projects as needed and monitoring the Museum’s Master Calendar to ensure all event and meeting spaces are clean and ready prior to use.

The schedule for this position will vary based on the Museum's event schedule. Evening and weekends are required with availability on weekdays, nights, and holidays.

Benefits

The position offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HRA, HSA, life insurance, 457 and pension plan, short and long-term disability and employee assistance program. The Science Museum has a generous paid time off policy, including vacation leave, four days family & personal leave, eight sick days per year and 13 paid holidays.

Minimum Qualifications

An ideal candidate will possess demonstrated experience supervising and evaluating staff as well as considerable knowledge of cleaning techniques, methods, materials, equipment, and chemicals for a wide variety of surfaces and materials and sanitation standards for a public facility. Be self-motivated, work well independently and as part of a team, and schedule as well as manage the work of a housekeeping staff for daily housekeeping activities and special events. Excellent oral communication skills and problem-solving skills. Be able to apply and interpret policies and procedures and evaluate resource needs. Candidate must be able to perform a variety of cleaning tasks, including lifting and moving heavy objects (up to 50 pounds), frequent standing/walking, pushing/pulling, bending, and reaching on a daily basis.

Additional Considerations

Candidate must have supervisory experience in housekeeping/custodial environment in a multi-shift, multiple building setting.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

The Science Museum of Virginia will accept ONLY online applications for all Science Museum employment opportunities. To be considered for this position, you must submit a Commonwealth of Virginia application or resume through the on-line “Virginia Jobs” (RMS) employment site no later than 11:55 p.m. on the closing date listed. If the position is an open until filled recruitment; the position will remain open for a minimum of 5 workdays or until the position is filled. Each application is reviewed for documentation that shows the applicant meets the minimum and additional qualifications stated in the job announcement. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided on the application; therefore, it is essential to provide detailed information. Submitting an application lacking in detail, may impact your interview eligibility. The RMS website will provide a confirmation of receipt when the application is submitted for consideration. Please refer to your RMS account for the status of your application and this position. Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date. Computers are available for applying for jobs in public libraries and the Virginia Employment Commission offices.

The Science Museum seeks motivated people of all backgrounds. We value diversity of cultures, races and ethnicities, gender expressions, and abilities. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

As a V3 (Virginia Values Veterans) employer the Science Museum Welcomes Veterans to apply! We provide hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application or resume.

Selected candidate(s) must successfully pass a criminal history background check. A record of criminal history does not automatically bar an applicant from consideration. Employment verification will be conducted to include current/previous supervisory employment reference checks.

The Science Museum will record information from each new employee’s Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) into the Federal E-Verify system to confirm identity and work authorization.

Contact Information

Name: Human Resources

Phone: ‪804.372.3766‬

Email: hr@smv.org

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.