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Rooms/Preventative Maintenance Engineer
IHGGA, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Jun 2024
About the role
Role Purpose
- Keeping our hotel running smoothly is vital to our guest's experience – as a Rooms/ Preventative Maintenance Engineer 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.
- Perform maintenance and repairs for assigned area of expertise such as the interior and exterior of buildings, hotel rooms and contents, lighting, heating, air conditioning (HVAC), ventilation, and swimming pool-if applicable, etc.
- Ensure that assigned equipment is prepared and operational for the following day’s work.
- Adhere to federal, state and local regulations concerning safety or other compliance requirements, as well as brand standards and local policy and procedures to ensure quality, safety, and consistency.
- Report all unsafe conditions or malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
- May educate and train hotel staff in the safe and proper use of equipment.
- Follow procedures that ensure the security of inventory and assets such as tools, supplies, equipment, furniture, televisions, etc., replenishes supplies and inventory in a timely and efficient manner, and minimizes waste.
- Respond in a courteous and prompt manner to all guest questions, complaints and/or requests to ensure strong guest satisfaction.
- May also perform other minor maintenance and repairs and/or conduct preventative maintenance duties as needed.
- Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments
- Assist with other duties as assigned.
- 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 KYC, Opera, Lutron, Bartech, or Inncom.
- On top of building equipment and hand tools, you’ll have a working knowledge of basic plumbing, electrics and preventative maintenance procedures.
- CPO certification –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.
- Compliance – as well as meeting local laws on food handling and serving alcohol, you’ll be above the minimum age required and fluent in the local language.
- Great communication skills, you’ll be warm, welcoming and easy to talk to.
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