Facility Attendants

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain inventories of clothing or uniforms, accessories, equipment, or linens.
• Clean and polish footwear, using brushes, sponges, cleaning fluid, polishes, waxes, liquid or sole dressing, and daubers.
• Provide assistance to patrons by performing duties such as opening doors or carrying bags.
• Set up various apparatus or athletic equipment.
• Report and document safety hazards, potentially hazardous conditions, and unsafe practices and procedures.
• Maintain a lost-and-found collection.
• Activate emergency action plans and administer first aid, as necessary.
• Assign dressing room facilities, locker space, or clothing containers to patrons of athletic or bathing establishments.
• Refer guest problems or complaints to supervisors.
• Monitor patrons' facility use to ensure that rules and regulations are followed, and safety and order are maintained.
• Attend to needs of athletic teams in clubhouses.
• Stencil identifying information on equipment.
• Check supplies to ensure adequate availability, and order new supplies when necessary.
• Procure beverages, food, and other items as requested.
• Clean facilities such as floors or locker rooms.
• Provide or arrange for services such as clothes pressing, cleaning, or repair.
• Answer customer inquiries or explain cost, availability, policies, and procedures of facilities.
• Provide towels and sheets to clients in public baths, steam rooms, and restrooms.
• Collect soiled linen or clothing for laundering.
• Issue gym clothes, uniforms, towels, athletic equipment, and special athletic apparel.
• Store personal possessions for patrons, issue claim checks for articles stored, and return articles on receipt of checks.
• Operate controls that regulate temperatures or room environments.
• Operate washing machines and dryers to clean soiled apparel and towels.