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Who Is St. Pete’s Maids?
In 2016, St. Pete’s Maids started with a simple mission. We heard cleaners say things like:
- My boss is unfair and doesn’t pay me enough
- I hate my job
- I don’t feel valued or like the company event cares about me.
We are constantly working to create a place where those statements are gone. We want our employees to feel valued and we want them to feel treated fairly.
Our mission is more than cleaning toilets. It’s more than getting on your knees to scrub the floor. We want to become one of the best small-businesses to work for.
Since our founding, we have become a top-rated company. St. Pete’s Maids serves primarily the residential market. Meaning, we clean people’s homes.
Our Mission
Our mission is to eliminate inconvenience in the world. For our customers, they aren’t just buying a residential maid service, instead, they are buying convenience.
- The convenience to come home after work and relax,
- The convenience to focus on their family or other priorities come the weekend,
- And the convenience to enjoy more from their life.
We take this mission VERY seriously and you will see that throughout our organization. Some “rules” will seem silly unless you look at them from the perspective of our mission.
We believe this mission gives everyone in our organization a purpose at work. You can show up to work with better clarity about how you can achieve the results your employer expects.
How many places that you have worked have a clear mission?
Helping Local-Kids One Home At A Time
We believe in social responsibility. Every single home we clean helps a local-foster kid that has been abused or neglected. You get the chance to be involved in changing the foster care community in your own neighborhood.
Did you know that there are approximately 13,000 foster kids in the state of Michigan?
Every time a home gets cleaned, we donate a portion of our revenue to local charities that support foster children. For example, we are big supporters of CASA – which helps represent kids in the legal system so they don’t get lost and forgotten. It’s easy when their foster parents, case workers, and lawyers change. CASA supports children by assigning a single person to a child until the case is closed — the child goes home with family or is adopted.
Why You Should Work At St. Pete’s Maids
Alexis Craig, the founder, is passionate about the business and has worked in the trenches with her elbow deep in the world’s dirtiest toilets.
We’ve found that franchise companies care about the return on their investment. They likely purchased the franchise to make a return on their money. Not because they wanted to make a difference in the industry.
… And we believe that shows in the way they treat their staff and manage the company.
The Ma’ and Pa’ cleaning companies don’t have the resources to support their employees and help their employees grow.
How We Compare to Other Cleaning Companies
We’re not perfect, but we think we’ve created a great place to work.
You can’t have our company without people, and we try to let our people know that. By joining St. Pete’s Maids, you will get to be part of a company that has fun and does things.
Paid-Time Off The Day You Start
One of the biggest differences between us and other cleaning companies (and any company in Lansing for that matter) is that we offer paid-time off the day you start.
Most companies will make you wait 90+ days or sometimes up to a year. Not us. We believe you deserve it the day you start.
We think life is more than work and you shouldn’t have to wait until forever to take your time. You’re a person who has a life. You can’t just temporialy put your life on hold for 90 days until you ge the benefits.
The Qualities We Look For
We Are Go-Getters – We are not afraid to get dirt under our fingernails and break a sweat. We will put in the hours and do the jobs that nobody wants.
We Are Flexible – We are willing to adapt and put ourselves in different situations and work environments — from frat houses to regular customers to elegant waterfront homes. We are willing to take the lead, yet, be a follower, depending on the situation at hand.
We Embrace Accountability and Extreme Ownership – We understand that accountability is done to improve our work-life, achieve goals and accomplishments we never imagined. We know our numbers in order to understand where we are in the present and where we are heading in the future.
We Are Reserved and Polite – We have and exude self-control, despite how we feel. We try to show our feelings in healthy and positive ways.
We Are Team Players – We are in the game every single day. We come into work each morning ready to make the most of the time we are given. We understand that we are going through the suck together so we try to have fun together.
We Are Customer-Service Focused – We understand that the customer might not always be “right”, but they are treated with respect and appreciation. Our customers fuel our jobs. Without them, we are all unemployed.
What Our Team Says
#1 I have worked for St. Pete’s Maids for a little over a month as a manager. I can say this is one of the best manager jobs I have ever had. I am treated fairly by everyone and the workload is enough to keep busy without being overwhelmed. It is a nice change to not wake up every morning dreading my work day.
#2 I’ve been here a few weeks now and I love working here! The job can be a little tiring but it compensates well and the people you work with and deal with are so great! I highly recommend St. Pete’s as an employer and cleaning company as well!
#3 I’ve worked with St. Pete’s for almost 2 years and am very happy with the company! If you’re reliable and have a good work ethic, it will not go unnoticed. They take very good care of both their employees and their clients, and are always available if you have questions throughout the work day. House cleaning can be a physically demanding job, and when some jobs require additional help, they do everything they can to make sure both you and the client are accommodated. The best part is seeing an immediate return for you work and going home at the end of the day with a sense of accomplishment. There’s nothing better than a happy client with a clean home. And St. Pete’s loves helping their team do just that!
#4 Flexible schedules available to fit your schedule, Coworkers are easy to work with and management is attentive to needs and problems both with clients and outside of work issues. The management takes care of your needs and supports employees anyway that they can. There is a great work atmosphere.
FAQ’s
You will start your work day at a house cleaning. Often times, you will be going to repeat client’s homes so you will be familiar with the home and your schedule. But cleaning is hard work, so you will likely sweat your butt off. Some days you will have to do a deep clean on a home where you will really sweat. From there, you will drive to two or three other homes before calling it a day.
Living out our core values. We use a simple framework for evaluating everyone. First, we look at how well you live out the core values in your work. We don’t care what you do in your personal life, but when you show up to work, you have to live our core values. This is the most important. We don’t care how long you have been cleaning for us, how good you are, or your experience. We care about how you live out our values.
Yep. Whenever a customer gives you a tip, it’s yours.
Nope, we will train anyone. What’s more important to us than your experience is that you match our core values and believe in our core mission. We call this looking for the right person for our company.
We’re a company that is focused on growth so there may be a chance for advancement in sales, marketing, or something else. But we are also a small company, so advancement may be a bit more limited than you might be looking for or hoping for.
We work hard to schedule clients in clusters. This leaves you driving as little as possible. Of course, due to scheduling conflicts, someone calling off, etc, this isn’t always possible. But we do work our hardest to do it. All of our clients are in the greater Lansing area, but you can pick what areas you want to service and clean.
You sure can. But we also offer the opportunity for you to convert your company to St. Pete’s Maids. If you’re tired of being the maid, the bookkeeper, the admin, and the sales person, then you might want to talk with us about converting your cleaning company to ours.
We pay around $11/ hour and up, but we offer other benefits that other companies do not. We offer paid-time off immediately upon being hired (most companies make you wait a year) and we have paid holidays. We also pay you for drive time, though at a reduced rate.
Our 6 Stage Recruitment Process
1
Review
Once you submit your application, we review your application for a variety of criteria — core values, work history, ability to follow directions.
2
Phone Interview
We conduct initial phone interview to get to know each other and make sure we are a good fit for each other.
3
Working Interview
Successful candidates will be asked to conduct a paid working interview for a few hours. You will clean a part of a home.
4
Offer
We make an offer to the candidates we feel are a good fit for our company
5
Training Period
Candidates are brought on for two-weeks of paid training to see if there is still a good fit between you and us.
6
Full-Hire
Successful candidates are fully hired.
Want To Stay In Touch?
We’d love to hear from you
Think you’ll thrive at St Pete’s Maids? Think you’ve got what it takes to push our business forward? We want to talk to you!
Send an email to jobs@stpetesmaids.com