Job Ref: JI17729
Branch: Leonardo Hotel Brighton
Location: Leonardo Hotel Brighton
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Shift pattern: 5 days out of 7 days
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 10/02/2023
Closing date: 12/03/2023
Be Yourself – Be a Bold Team Player – Be Leonardo
As a Maintenance Assistant, you’ll be right in the heart of the hotel, so we want you to take pride in everything you’ll be doing to support the Maintenance Manager and keep things running like clockwork. Take a deep breath because you’ll be stepping into a busy role! You’ll be proactively addressing maintenance issues and performing minor fixes whilst working as part of a vibrant team to ensure all guests have an excellent stay with us.
If you’re our ideal Maintenance Assistant, you will:
- Be yourself!
- Be motivated to seek further development and learn new skills
- Be a great communicator, as you’re a key member of our hotel team
- Be energetic and keen to give anything a try, even if it’s new to you!
- Already have some basic general maintenance skills
Why come join us?
We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you’re part of the team, you’re part of the Leonardo community. We have support on tap, so expect top-notch LD programmes, practical training and clear progression within our vibrant and dynamic team.
Our Story
Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels across the UK Ireland and have plans for major expansion over the next few years’; there’s never been a more exciting time to join us!
Some of the perks our colleagues enjoy include:
- Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of!
- Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
- Free hot meals whilst on duty
- Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
- We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
- The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
- Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression
In the New England Quarter, this modern hotel is 0.2 miles from Brighton train station, 1.1 miles from the ornate 18th-century Royal Pavilion and 1.2 miles from Brighton beach. Bright rooms come with free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, and tea and coffeemaking equipment. Some offer sofabeds. There's a relaxed bar, a restaurant serving evening meals, and a coffee shop, as well as 9 meeting rooms and a business centre.
At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.
Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.
As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing.
At Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!
We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!