Maintenance Assistant

Maintenance - Holiday Inn Express Gatwick-Crawley

Contract: Full Time
Salary: 12.71 per hour

Holiday Inn Express London Gatwick - Crawley has just completed a £500k makeover. It has seen 73 of the hotel’s spacious bedrooms and the conference room enjoy a stylish renovation to provide contemporary comfort for business and leisure guests. With 138 spacious bedrooms, the hotel is located just 3.7 miles from Gatwick Airport and five minutes from Manor Royal business park.

Guests can revel in fresh décor, power showers and individual air conditioning as they unwind on new Hypnos king-size beds with flat-screen TVs. The hotel’s meeting space has the capacity for up to 25 delegates theatre style and boasts upgraded facilities including new lighting and AV equipment. The hotel also offers an onsite bar showing the latest Sky Sports.

Job Description

As a Maintenance Assistant, you will be responsible for the upkeep of the hotel, ensuring the health and safety of our guests, and undertaking all maintenance duties, including painting, plumbing, electrical and carpentering.

What We Offer

We want our staff to enjoy coming to work and provide a friendly and supportive environment for you to work in. You’ll develop personally through meeting and working with people from all over the world as we create memorable guest experiences together, and for those keen to develop you’ll have the opportunity to explore the business with various career options. In addition, on offer:
• 28 holiday days (pro rata for part time)
• Automatic enrolment into a workplace pension scheme
• Heavily discounted hotel stays and food & beverage discounts
• Life Assurance
• Uniform
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family

About Us

The life of every resident we care for is valuable, rich in history and have unique life stories. The team strive to work together and ensure the people who stay with us feel safe, happy and supported. The team are passionate and go above and beyond to help every resident live life to the full.

Role in our Family

Key responsibilities to your role:
• Liaise with Hotel Management/Housekeeping Team and staff to carry out required painting, redecoration and general maintenance duties.
• Determine the most cost effective approach to achieving a durable and quality decorative finish.
• Carry out preparation/repair/application of finishing products as necessary.
• Undertake both responsive and planned maintenance of painting and decoration
• Carry out a maintenance, repair and installation work
• Execute workmanship using own initiative, to a high standard and ensure it is carried out in strict compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act, and any other relevant legislation covering safety in the workplace for self and others.
• Carry out inspections of occupied and empty rooms to determine the extent of painting, decoration and general maintenance required. Having established the need, carry out the most cost effective and expedient means of completing the works. This will be achieved through efficient preparation/repair/ application of decorative products and general maintenance activities.
• Carry out all necessary administrative work.
• Monitoring monthly reports and keeping all up to date
• Monitoring and reporting weekly/monthly H&S tasks on Health and Safety Portal
• To keep supervisory staff aware of progress and problems in a timely manner.
• Good level of physical fitness, including the ability to lift, work at heights and in differing conditions.
• To undertake all training as required (e.g. first aid, health and safety, customer service).

What Happens Next

Does this role suit your skillset? Apply now, this takes seconds, you’ll just need to provide some contact details along with a CV. Next, we’ll review your details, and if successful we’ll invite you to meet one of the team to learn more about you, your experience and let us tell you more about the Splendid group.
The Splendid Group is an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.