Job Ref: 11889
Branch: Apex City of London Hotel
Location: Apex City of London Hotel, London
Salary/Benefits: Competitive salary and excellent company benefits and perks
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40 Hours
Posted date: 12/03/2025
Closing date: 25/04/2025
You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as Maintenance Manager. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It is these values that support you to be yourself here at Apex Hotels. By bringing your own personality, passion, and ideas to the role, you will add a new dynamic to our innovative and supportive Maintenance and Engineering Team. We believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of Planned and Reactive maintenance services to the hotel’s building fabric, FFE, plant and systems. Acting as the line manager to a team of on site Maintenance Technicians, you will take a proactive and hands on approach to maintenance that leads from the front and through example. Core to your role is the hotel’s Computerised Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) that you will utilise to maintain accurate record keeping, process reactive repairs and schedule planned maintenance activities of both your direct team and external contractors.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Line management of on-site maintenance team including the driving of productivity and high maintenance standards through ongoing mentoring and development
• Reporting regularly to the Hotel Operations Director on the status of maintenance delivery
• Providing the hands-on skills and knowledge necessary to maintain the hotel and embedded systems in fully compliant, optimal condition
• Undertaking regular and proactive inspection of building fabric, plant and systems ensuring high standards of maintenance are maintained
• Delivery of Planned and Reactive maintenance services
• Liaising closely with other hotel departments and wider management team to support continual improvement of property maintenance standards
• Accurate record keeping and the maintaining of the CMMS data base up to date
• Supervision of 3rd party contractors
• Purchase ordering of maintenance spares and outsourced specialist services
• Health Safety management, including Statutory Compliance, Risk Assessment, Permits to Work and guarding of safe working practices
• Developing knowledge of hotel plant and systems including their switching, control and optimisation
• Actively seeking to improve the hotels Environmental performance through implementation of initiatives to reduce the consumption of utilities.

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will:

• Hold a minimum of 3 years management or supervisory experience within the building maintenance or facilities management arena
• Be mechanically or electrically qualified or hold other relevant trade qualification
• Be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of building fabric related trades and practices
• Strong knowledge of the operation, control and maintenance of building services plant and systems (HVAC/ MEP)
• Hold sound knowledge of Statutory Compliance activities related to the built environment
• Hold familiarity with the function and use of Microsoft Office suite of programmes
• Have previous experience in the use of CAFM/ CMMS or similar software
• Hold strong people management and communication skills
• Be an enthusiastic self-starter, able to motivate and inspire others
• Have achieved a Pool Plant Operator Qualification (desirable)
• Hold a level 3 qualification in Health Safety (desirable)
• Live within daily commutable distance of Edinburgh City Centre
• Hold willingness to work at other Apex sites as directed, some of which may involve travel from your normal place of work