Regional Maintenance Assistant

Switch Hospitality Management Ltd.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals on duty

Pension plan

Life insurance

Birthday celebrations

Staff events

Uniform provided

Job summary

Switch Hospitality Management Ltd. in New York seeks a Regional Maintenance Assistant to support hotel facilities across the region. You will perform maintenance tasks, manage stock, and ensure clean, safe engineering areas while coordinating any necessary repairs.

The role emphasizes versatility, energy, and proactive maintenance to uphold guest service excellence and brand standards. On-call duties may apply with a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• Experience in hotel maintenance or facilities roles preferred.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and maintain safety standards.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Carry out weekly maintenance material checks and keep stock levels.
• Keep hotel external areas clean and tidy.
• Ensure workshops and engineering areas are clean and safe; remove debris.
• Log defects and breakdowns in the maintenance log book.
• Maintain professional relationships with hotel staff.
• Coordinate repairs, including third-party contractors when needed.
• Respond to housekeeping maintenance requests promptly.
• Complete reports and documentation accurately and on time.
• Be on call as required to maintain hotel operations.
• Maintain brand standards and mystery audit compliance.
• Support painting and decorating schedules and maintenance contracts.

Skills

Maintenance

Facilities management

Hospitality service

On-call availability

Job description

Are you passionate about hospitality and delivering magic guest service? We now have an exciting opportunity to assist in the delivery of magic service, within the role of Regional Maintenance Assistant

As a Regional Maintenance Assistant you will be required to master the art of versatility and inject some energy whilst completing a variety of duties. The main duties expected within the role are:

• Carry out checks of maintenance materials at least weekly, keeping stock levels to the minimum necessary to maintain continuity of service.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the Hotel’s external surrounding areas are kept clean and tidy
• Ensure that the workshop, plant rooms and all other engineering areas are clean and in safe condition. This includes removal from areas all items of debris or litter.
• Enter defects and breakdowns in log books.
• Create and maintain a pleasant and professional relationship with all members of Hotel staff.
• To carry out timely repairs to all parts of the hotel/co-ordinate the repairs through a third party if deemed required.
• Respond to Housekeeping maintenance requests in a timely manner.
• Ensure reports, returns and any other documentation required is completed accurately and timeously.
• Be on call as and when required, and within scope of best practice to ensure the hotel maintains the services that guests and the business require.
• Carry out timely repairs as logged in the daily maintenance book
• To take ownership for the Brand standards and excellent operation standards as well as the Mystery audit standards and to ensure they are being adhered to
• To carry out proactive approach to maintaining the fabric of property, i.e painting and decorating schedule and maintenance contracts.

We believe that our employees are the key to magical guest service, for this we look for a candidate who shares our vision and looks for opportunities to provide magic service.

Our wide range of employee benefits and personalised training and development plans ensure that our team love where they work. These include a full benefits online platform, meals on duty, a pension plan, life insurance, magic treats, birthday celebrations and staff social events, plus many more.

We are continually evolving, and our team do too, there is no red tape or corporate conflict with us!

We Evolve – You Evolve – We Grow Together

13.71 Per Hour

Hours

As required

Competitive salaryEmployee discounted rateFriends and family discount rateFood and Beverage discountLong service awardsuniform providedMeals on dutyTravel aassistanceEmployee assistance programmeEmployee recognition rewardsSpecial occasion day offLife insurance