AddressAre you the Chief Engineer with the savvy skills, kaleidoscopic knowledge and masterful magician that will help us make ‘London Reloaded’?
Picture it if you will: nhow London - a unique, unconventional lifestyle hotel concept in the hip Shoreditch area of London. Joining its older siblings in Milan, Berlin, Rotterdam, Marseille, Amsterdam, nhow London is one of the archetypal youngest sibling: loud, lively and loved. In case you didn’t know about us (what?!), NH Hotel Group, part of Minor Hotels, operates almost 400 hotels with around 60,000 rooms in 26 countries across Europe, America and Africa.
Our Chief Engineer will be a key player in guiding the effective and efficient running of the Maintenance department. This person will help us to meet the company and guest’s expectations, to encourage team work, loyalty and unity within the department, and enabling the hotel to operate at its highest standards and at maximum occupancy.
What is in it for you as our Chief Engineer?
- Competitive Salary
- Yearly bonus
- Private Healthcare with AXA Health
- Westfield Health & Rewards
- NH University: excellent training & development opportunities
- Employee and Friends & Family rates in all NH and Minor Group Hotels worldwide
- Excellent career opportunities: all employees of NH Hotel Group are given priority on internal vacancies worldwide
- Free meal on shift
- Free use of our on-site gym
- Quirky, United and Authentic Team
What you can expect from your role as Chief Engineer?
- Oversees day to day operations of the department, including repairs, alteration, and installation of work.
- Lead the Maintenance function providing both, a reactive and proactive multi-skilled service on all operational equipment and hotels’ infrastructure.
- Responsible for planned scheduling creation and overseeing the adherence and timely completion of work carried out.
- Increase the site operational effectiveness, improve on project delivery, reduce equipment failure room downtime
- Manage and implement improvement plans, driving Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are adhered to.
- Manage the teams on technical best practice and establish standard policies and procedures whilst leading the department and mentoring direct reports
- Identification of potential lifecycle deficiencies, produce capital budgets to match lifecycle expectancies
- Implement and manage continuous improvement of maintenance services by highlighting recommending changes where necessary.
- Manage, coach and develop a high performing and autonomous maintenance team
Main competencies of our Chief Engineer
- Attention to Quality
- Good communication skills
- Service directed
- Leadership
- Delegation skills
- Analytical
- Supplier Management
