Laundry Manager

Role summary

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The Laundry Manager oversees daily laundry and linen operations, ensuring that guest rooms, restaurants, spa facilities, and staff areas receive clean, well-presented linen and uniforms. Requirements typically include a hospitality, laundry, or housekeeping background, previous supervisory or management experience, knowledge of commercial laundry equipment, chemical handling, quality control, inventory management, and workplace safety. The successful candidate should be organized, hands-on, service-focused, and capable of leading a diverse team. Shangri-La expects strong coordination with housekeeping and other hotel departments, effective cost and productivity control, reliable maintenance reporting, and consistent compliance with hygiene, environmental, and company standards. Flexibility to work shifts, weekends, and holidays is normally required.

About the employer

Shangri-La is a leading luxury hospitality group founded in Hong Kong, with hotels, resorts, and residences across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and other international destinations. The group is known for warm Asian hospitality, high service standards, and thoughtfully designed properties serving leisure and business travelers. Shangri-La hotels commonly offer extensive guest facilities, including restaurants, spas, pools, meeting venues, and recreation services. In the Philippines, the company operates well-established properties and provides careers across rooms, food and beverage, engineering, finance, sales, and guest services. Employees generally work in a multicultural environment with structured operating procedures, training opportunities, and a strong emphasis on guest satisfaction, teamwork, cleanliness, and professional presentation.

Working in Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, with major employment centers in Metro Manila, Cebu, and key resort destinations such as Boracay, Palawan, Bohol, and Davao. Hospitality jobs are widely available in hotels, resorts, restaurants, casinos, and tourism businesses, although wages and living costs vary by location. Filipino culture is welcoming, family-oriented, and community-focused; English is widely used in workplaces. Lifestyle ranges from busy urban living to relaxed coastal communities, with beaches, diving, festivals, and outdoor activities readily accessible. Foreign nationals normally need an employer-sponsored work permit and appropriate visa, while Filipino applicants should prepare valid identification, employment records, and medical documents. Relocating may involve accommodation, transport, healthcare, and humidity considerations. Checking current immigration rules, local labor requirements, and the employer’s relocation support before accepting an offer is recommended.