What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Representative position at Holiday Inn Express & Suites Jacksonville?
What is the job?
Keeping our hotel running smoothly is vital to our guest's experience – as Maintenance Representative you’ll keep everything looking sharp and running like clockwork. From simple repairs to forward-thinking for the next day. With naturally high standards to support our own, you’ll approach every task with devotion and pride.
Your day to day:
- Repair or replace items around the hotel and refurbish items in guest rooms. By keeping on top of these tasks, you’ll keep our hotels looking great and working well.
- Organize supplies and make sure equipment is ready for the next day
- Live up to high safety standards – follow guidelines and tell your supervisor about any incidents, dangerous conditions or unsafe equipment
- Carry out a preventive maintenance program to ensure the hotel is maintained, safe, clean, and in service for guests (example: lighting, refrigeration, heating, air-conditioning, water treatment systems, parking lot, and pools)
- Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments
- Communicate with all hotel department heads to stay informed of maintenance needs and ensure timely responses to requests
- May be responsible for hotel security to minimise risk of theft, crime and other hazards
- Always keep an eye out for improvements
- Be a friendly face and helping hand to our guests
- Keep your supervisor or duty manager in the loop and tell them about any low running supplies
- Look smart and approachable in your uniform
- Be ready to take on extra duties as and when the team needs you
What we need from you:
- Experience – you’ll have at least one year of maintenance or repair work under your belt
- A high school diploma or related vocational training
- You’ll be familiar with Microsoft Office, a building management program and/or any other reporting tools like Opera
- On top of building equipment and hand tools, you’ll have a working knowledge of basic plumbing, electrics and preventative maintenance procedures
- CPO certification – if the hotel has a pool, a Certified Pool Operator license would be ideal
- Fitness – you’ll be on your feet most of the day, and will need to bend and kneel a lot
- Great communication skills, you’ll be warm, welcoming and easy to talk to
- Maintain a focus and commitment to operating a “green” hotel
How do I deliver this?
We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG hotels.
Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.
- True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests
- True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay
- True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs
- True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner
There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.
What we offer
We’ll reward all your hard work with a great pay and benefits – including a uniform, great room discount and superb training.
Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing, and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care; that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.
Job Type: Part-time
Expected hours: 28 – 35 per week
Experience:
- Maintenance: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Jacksonville, NC 28546 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Jacksonville, NC 28546: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person