Director of Maintenance

Travelodge Hotels Limited; Liverpool City Region; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading budget hospitality brand seeks a Director of Maintenance to lead its maintenance function, overseeing a team of 200 engineers, ensuring safety, quality standards, and strategic operational performance. The role demands a seasoned leader who can balance strategic and hands-on responsibilities in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Annual bonus (discretionary)

Hybrid working

50% personal discount for hotel bookings

25 days holiday increasing with length of service

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large scale maintenance teams.
• Ability to develop strategic plans and business cases.
• Understanding of safety regulations and maintenance best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a maintenance team of circa 200 engineers.
• Ensure rooms are available for sale and maintain safety standards.
• Establish future maintenance models and balance operational performance.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Communication

Data-Driven Decision Making

Innovation

Job description

Are you passionate about creating safe, high-quality environments while maximising value and performance? Do you have the vision and expertise to elevate operational excellence and drive innovation in maintenance? Are you ready to lead a dynamic team and shape the future of maintenance for a leading budget hospitality brand? If so, our Director of Maintenance position is your perfect next career move for you.

What’s it all about?

As our Director of Maintenance, you will lead our maintenance function which operates as a reactive maintenance business with circa 200 maintenance engineers, and an outsourced supply chain of specialist contractors completing in excess of 400,000 maintenance jobs per annum.

Your team will be responsible for ensuring our rooms are available for sale, our hotels provide safe environments for both customers and colleagues, and that we maintain high-quality standards, and prioritise work that matters most to our customers, balancing it with ongoing refurbishment cycles, whilst being commercially aware of our budget status and cost controls.

In addition, you will shape and establish our future Maintenance model, including decisions on in-sourcing vs. outsourcing, balancing reactive and planned maintenance, leveraging data and AI, and developing a strategic plan to maximise value and operational performance excellence. You will also oversee the technical supply chain in partnership with our central procurement team to drive optimal value for Travelodge.

Why Travelodge?

We believe in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can be their true self and belong. We work hard to improve the diversity of our teams and celebrate our differences. And we care about our colleagues’ wellbeing, so we ensure there are plenty of resources available so everyone can look after their emotional, physical, financial and work wellbeing. We call this “Better Me”.

Who will this appeal to?

You will be a passionate and seasoned leader in maintenance with substantial experience of leading large scale in house and outsourced maintenance resources. You will be comfortable working at a strategic level whilst having the agility to get hands on when required and be up to date with all safety regulations and maintenance best practices.

The ability to operate with credibility and integrity with senior stakeholders is essential. In addition strong leadership, coaching and monitoring is paramount.

You will be a self starting, confident, articulate communicator with experience of developing strategic plans and business cases. You will demonstrate adaptability and innovation with a proven record for making data driven business decisions and consider automation and AI in future plans.

What are the extra benefits of working for Travelodge?

• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual bonus (discretionary)
• Hybrid working - a minimum of 60% of your time should be spent in the office, but you’re welcome to come in every day if you prefer!
• 50% personal discount for hotel bookings and great friends and family discounts!
• 25 days holiday increasing with length of service + bank holidays