Maintenance Assistant - Saturdays

Our voco Winchester Hotel & Spa is a modern haven, designed with a focus on both style and comfort. Our thoughtfully crafted spaces combine contemporary design elements with inviting amenities, ensuring a distinctive and enjoyable stay. Located near the historic and picturesque city of Winchester, voco Winchester Hotel & Spa is located on the edge of the beautiful South Downs National Park and within five minutes from the city centre. With that in mind, our voco Winchester Hotel & Spa is a great place to kickstart your hospitality career or if you’re looking to progress your journey, this is the place where future can become reality.

It’s a big operation, so you’ll need to be hands-on, featuring 131 bedrooms, 8 flexible event spaces, our restaurant Kitchen 21 and the stunning ANA Spa. Whether it be a pre-cruise stay, accommodation for a business trip, a relaxing spa-day, wedding or family celebration, our hotel offers it all.

Are you out-going, full of energy and enthusiastic? A natural-born communicator? Are you passionate about offering an excellent guest experience? Then our fabulous voco Winchester Hotel & Spa could be the place for you.

The Role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Assistant to join our team. You’ll be someone who is approachable, creative and a keen problem solver. Completing all maintenance related work within the hotel in a timely fashion; you’ll be responsible for making sure the property is consistently maintained to group standards and any issues are addressed in a timely manner.

You will be responsible for the daily department operations by performing maintenance duties, repairs, servicing, painting of all hotel equipment, furniture and fixtures. The role will cover both reactive and planned preventative work and involve working closely with all hotel departments to ensure minimum disruption to guests. You’ll support property audits, record benchmarking data such as meter readings and work with the maintenance manager to monitor relevant stock levels.

The Ideal Candidate:

We’re looking for a Maintenance Assistant whose punctual and reliable with a positive attitude to work. Knowledge and experience of plumbing, electrics and decorating are highly important to this role, alongside being enthusiastic, motivated and able to work well under pressure. We are looking for someone who prides themselves on a high standard of work and has the ability to prioritise their workload efficiently. As part of the Maintenance Team you'll provide flexible coverage which will include some shift work, weekends and may also include 'on call duties' as and when required.

Currently this role is Saturday's only but more hours will become available. 

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of eligibility.

Benefits:

• Heavily discounted Staff Room Rates at all Castlebridge properties for you and your friends and family, so everyone can enjoy a break away. Rates start from £50 per night, with breakfast included.
• 50% off your bill when you dine in one of our Restaurants or Bars.
• Fully funded Apprenticeship programme to develop your career without a reduction in your pay.
• Cycle to work scheme - save up to 40% on a wide range of bikes.
• Healthcare Cash Plans - dental, optical, medical and more available from just £1 per week.
• Referral schemes for referring your friends or family to join our team.
• Flexible shift patterns and contracts available to suit your lifestyle, we are 24/7 operation, meaning shift patterns to suit everyone.
• Monthly colleague recognition through our 5-Star Service rewards programme and monetary rewards for long service milestones.
• Use of Wagestream financial wellbeing platform, allowing you to access your pay as and when you need it.
• Employee Assistance Programme - free, confidential advice available 24/7 to you.
• An internal communications hub which acts as our very own social media platform, connecting you to your colleagues and the wider group in seconds.