The Standard Brussels

Shift Engineer

The Standard Brussels

Shift Engineer

Opening in early 2025, The Standard, Brussels marks the hotel brand’s third outpost in Europe. Set in the city’s Northern Quarter, The Standard, Brussels brings the brand’s design, culture and activation-driven philosophy to Belgium.

With 180 guestrooms (plus 20 residences), the modern, new-build project features many stages for The Standard’s renowned day- and nightlife. A ground-floor greenhouse welcomes guests and locals into the lobby lounge, restaurant, and terrace. Upstairs, The Rooftop features its own restaurant, bar and garden—set to become a neighbourhood destination. Throughout the building, additional public and private event spaces are platforms for happenings.

The Standard, Brussels will welcome a new set of creative, dynamic guests into the brand ethos. In Brussels, The Standard’s signature mix of playful, sophisticated, unexpected hospitality finds roots and resonances in local culture. The simple premise behind The Standard is that it is anything but. Founded in 1999, the goals of every Standard are to up the aesthetic stakes and defy convention while attending to every detail, embracing our local communities, providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for our teams and, of course, delivering a smashing good time for our guests.

We are defined by our richness of personality, diversity of background and lifestyle and are now looking for a team of Shift Engineers who will embody our ‘Anything but Standard’ ethos as we commence our pre-opening period.

Your role

As a Shift Engineer, you will support our Chief Engineer during the pre-opening period as we take operational ownership and commissioning of the hotel and helping to set up the Engineering function of our new property in Brussels. This period will involve a large amount of snagging and testing of services and facilities across the hotel to ensure everything is in working order and ready for opening. You will also work closely with the wider ZIN development construction team and building ownership to act as an important link between these teams and our hotel operations team throughout the critical pre-opening phase.

Once our hotel is open, you will support our Chief Engineer and senior team as a custodian of our property and assets. Your role will be predominately operational, and you will provide day to day engineering support to the hotel and ensure that our product, facilities and services is maintained to the highest standards for all our guests and employees to enjoy.

As a trade specialist (Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing or a/c Refrigeration) you will naturally feel comfortable ‘working on the tools’ and have a flexible and adaptive hands-on operational approach in order to prioritise work and deal with potential emergency situations if they arise. You’ll be equally comfortable both front and back of house areas, in plant rooms and kitchens, through to ensuring our guest bedrooms are well maintained and are consistently presented in a pristine condition.

You’ll oversee a range of daily engineering duties including the implementation of Health & Safety, safety checks, testing and monitoring safety systems, the BMS and plant. In addition to our inhouse team you will also support and coordinate the work of contractors and external engineers.

This is not a ‘Standard’ Shift Engineer position, so you will need to have miles and miles of personality and stamina, be highly social, upbeat and friendly; confident and can handle pressure well; thrive in a high-volume, high-energy environment and able to work equally well both independently and as part of a team.

Do you have what it takes to be a Shift Engineer at The Standard, Brussels?

A minimum of 3+ years’ Engineering experience ideally gained within a similar Lifestyle Hotel or large 4- or 5-star Hotel in Brussels or the Benelux region is essential for this role

In addition to this, the ideal candidate will also…

• A qualified trade professional; ideally holding local trade qualifications/licences for either Electrical, Mechanical, Gas/Plumbing or HVAC combined with a solid understanding of hotel operations, facilities and BMS
• Experienced of working within a mixed use development would be beneficial
• Pre-opening Hotel Experience
• A solid understanding of Belgium Health & Safety, COSHH, Fire Safety, Building Safety and facilities legislation
• Experience of creating Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work
• Highly organised with great attention to detail; previous use of Knowcross or similar facilities management system would be advantageous
• Your communication skills will be exceptional with the ability and confidence to build strong working relationships at all levels of the business
• Fluency in French and/or Dutch is essential for this role
• During our preopening period you may need to have a flexible approach to working hours and once the hotel is open the ability to work shifts including weekends

We are defined by our richness of personality and diversity of background and lifestyle so if you think you have what it takes to be a Shift Engineer at The Standard, Brussels we’d love to hear from you.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the European Union. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates prior to commencing employment.

Benefits Include

• CDI - Contrat à Durée Indéterminée
• 20 Days Holiday + Public Holidays
• Meals on Duty (once hotel is open)
• Worldwide Travel Discounts via The Standard Advantage platform
• Employee & Family Rates across all Standard and Bunkhouse properties
• In-house Experience Programme
• F&B Discounts ranging from 25-50%
• Recruitment Referral scheme
• Local Transport benefit
• Eco-vouchers
• Social Committee with regular monthly social activities