Hotel Maintenance

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Hotel Maintenance

Department: Maintenance

Reports To: Chief Engineer

Summary: Responsible for repairing, testing, adjusting, or installing equipment. Completes all tasks with the guest experience and safety in mind. Works closely with Chief Engineer to ensure property is in pristine condition.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Performs scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
• Examines work orders and converses with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems.
• Sets up and tests industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
• Responds to calls from Front Desk and Housekeeping regarding issues in rooms
• Repairs or adjusts equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
• Advises management regarding customer satisfaction, product performance, or suggestions for product improvements.
• Maintains equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Specialized Training:

• Electrical, plumbing, or CPO preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Other Abilities:

• Communication
• Time management

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather), work near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, extreme cold (non-weather), extreme heat (non-weather), risk of electrical shock, and vibration. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.