Posted 3 months ago
Accommodations Manager (Remote Camp)
@ ESS
Fort McMurray, Alberta
Overview
ESS is hiring a full-time Accommodations Manager for a remote camp lodge to run housekeeping, janitorial and front desk operations. The role covers staff training and coaching, work inspections, scheduling, inventory and payroll. The posting requires a post-secondary degree or equivalent, OSSA BSO and WHMIS-related safety compliance, and prior leadership of a unionized workforce.
Responsibilities:
- Manage housekeeping, janitorial and front desk operations
- Hire, train, schedule and discipline direct reports
- Conduct daily inspections, audits and safety talks
- Handle payroll, inventory, invoicing and labour planning
- Lead internal labour investigations
Requirements summary:
- Post-secondary degree or equivalent experience
- OSSA BSO or Common Safety Orientation
- Proven budgeting and scheduling skills
- Experience leading a unionized workforce
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ultipro
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-17
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Manager |
| Department | Business operations |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: minimal · ground: none |
| Work setting | Client sites, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | OSSA BSO, Common Safety Orientation |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 33 |
Overview: Responsible for the overall management of housekeeping, janitorial and front desk operations of the assigned lodge. This include tasks such as: training and coaching of team members, inspections of work, scheduling, inventory and payroll.
Now, if you were to come on board as an Accommodations Manager, we’d ask you to do the following for us:
- Develop, implement, and evaluate operational changes to grow the housing and housekeeping operations.
- Ensure that operations are profitable and meet/exceed expectations through effective execution of business plans, marketing, staffing, scheduling and cost management.
- Hire, train, develop, motivate, and discipline direct reports.
- Ensure strict compliance with Compass’s Quality Assurance and Health and Safety Program, Occupational Health and Safety Act, and WHMIS regulations.
- Coordinate frequent workplace inspections and WHMIS training of staff.
- Conduct daily inspections and audits.
- Plays a lead role in communicating critical safety information across various platforms including toolbox talks and discussions.
- Ensure participation from employees for FLHA review and sign off, functional observations, and seven-day assessments.
- Ensure administrative duties are complete, such as: labour planning, reporting, inventory, invoicing, CI plan participation, payroll, and scheduling, including the coordination of LOAs and flights.
- Develop training materials and manage interviews, meetings, investigations, and performance plans; plus, corrective actions, toolboxes, SWSPs, SOPs, and the ABCs of 24/7 housekeeping.
- Develop janitorial work areas.
- Leads internal labour investigations.
- Recommend new processes that positively impact operations and results.
Think you have what it takes to be our Accommodations Manager? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you will be successful:
- Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- OSSA BSO (OSSA/CSTS) or Common Safety Orientation required
- Proven management skills, including budgeting, controlling costs, and scheduling.
- Strong leadership, relationship management, and interpersonal skills.
- Team player with strong communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing work priorities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) required.
- Previous experience leading a unionized workforce, preferably within remote and dispatched operations is required.
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