Guest Relations Agent; Security

The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit, and a true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leave you with an uplifted feeling.

The Standard's irreverent and playful sensibility, combined with careful consideration of design, detail, and service, has established its reputation as a pioneer of hospitality, travel, dining, nightlife, and beyond. The Standard hotels are known for their taste-making clientele, their pioneering design, and their unrelenting un-Standard-ness.

To create experience by embracing and empowering a diverse collective of team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.

The Standard’s commitment is to being an anchor for each neighborhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.

We promise to ensure that a stay is an experience and that memory means making friends and having stories to tell. To understand why it exists is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, to hideaway, to make believe, and to do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.

We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations.
It’s WHO WE ARE!

Job Title: Guest Relations Agent

Department: Administrative and General

Location: The Standard, High Line

Reporting to: Director of Guest Relations

Responsible for:Guest Relations Office, all spaces in the hotel building, and other locations, as assigned.

This position monitors and patrols assigned areas to provide a safe environment for guests and employees and to minimize opportunities for loss or damage.

Security/Guest Relations

Maintain complete awareness of:

• Scheduled group activities and house count
• Hotel facilities and services
• Hours of operation
• Facility layout
• Fire and emergency plans
• Department rules of conduct
• Review department log records and be familiar with pertinent information relevant to all daily shifts. Review the hotel status and follow up actions with all shift agents
• Issue keys and equipment to designated hotel personnel. Maintain accurate records and ensure the safekeeping of such in accordance to hotel procedures.
• Ensure all non-hotel personnel arriving at employee entrance are properly documented while on the property according to hotel policy
• Supervise the inspection of employee packages, purses, bags, etc. as employees enter or leave the property as designated by hotel policy
• Provide escorts for employees in accordance with departmental standards
• Ensure that after-hours access into secured hotel areas are properly authorized, monitored and documented in accordance with hotel standards
• Handle deliveries received during non-business hours following hotel procedures
• Work with outside agencies (i.e., police, fire department, and emergency services) cooperatively and follow established hotel regulations
• Coordinate emergencies as specified in the departmental manual
• Contact the Director of Security/Guest Relations immediately for emergencies as specified in the departmental manual
• Investigate all alarms and comply with respective procedures
• Patrol the property with specified equipment, checking all designated points and documenting all actions taken in accordance with departmental standards. Review Deggy logs for all agents.
• Resolve safety hazard situations
• Ensure all guest room doors are secured; assist guests with room access in accordance with hotel procedures
• Challenge suspicious persons on hotel property in accordance with departmental procedures
• Conduct designated investigations of theft or lost items, noise, and assault complaints, food poisoning, and other guest complaints; complete documented…