Maintenance Assistant in Cambridge

Gonville Hotel is a four-star hotel situated in the heart of Cambridge, overlooking the historic Parker's Piece. Being located centrally makes Gonville Hotel the perfect base for a stay in the city, attracting both holidaymakers and businesspeople. With a range of events and unique dining opportunities, our hotel is also a destination for people resident in the city.

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Assistant to join our Truly Talented team.

What we offer:

• Hotel discounts across all Axiom Hospitality hotels – colleague rates and up to 50% discount on F&B
• 28 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing yearly to 33 days
• Discounts across retail, restaurants, events and more through our benefits & rewards portal
• Access to our Employee Assistance Line to support your Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Use of Wagestream Financial Wellbeing platform, allowing instant access to your pay
• Yearly complimentary Axiom Xcape stayover after one year of service
• A growing team with great training, progression, and promotion opportunities
• Rewards for referring a friend: referral bonus for recommending a new team member starts at £250 per successful hire
• Length of service awards, ranging from 1 year to 3, 5, 10 and 20-year rewards and more!

Your role:

Completing all maintenance-related work within the hotel in a timely fashion; you’ll be responsible for making sure the property is consistently maintained to group standards and any issues are addressed in a timely manner. The role will cover both reactive and planned preventative work and involve working closely with all hotel departments to ensure minimum disruption to guests. You’ll support property audits, record benchmarking data such as meter readings and work with the maintenance manager to monitor relevant stock levels.

The ideal person for this role will be enthusiastic about change, focused on details and trusting.

The core skills and experience required to succeed:

• Knowledge and experience of plumbing, electrics and decorating are highly important to this role, alongside being enthusiastic, motivated and able to work well under pressure
• Knowledge of health & safety practices and regulation
• We are looking for someone who prides themselves on a high standard of work and has the ability to prioritise their workload efficiently
• Able to work within a team and on own initiative
• Able to carry out gardening and landscaping projects, including planting, pruning, weeding, and maintaining outdoor areas to a high standard

You must have the right to work in the UK to be eligible for this role. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from all candidates prior to commencing employment.

At Axiom Hospitality, we thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a fast-growing hospitality company with global aspirations. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We, therefore, encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages, and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.

At Axiom Hospitality, we are making efforts to reduce our carbon, energy, water and waste footprint. We strive to be ethical in all we do and want to be a thriving, sustainable and responsible business for our people, our communities and our planet. Working closely with our Hotel Owners, we are committed to the journey to sustainability. In addition, we are working to reduce our hotels’ impact on the environment through internationally recognised eco-label certification.

Our hotels strive to be active members of their local communities by giving back where they can. Supporting local charities is important to our teams, from volunteering at soup kitchens to collecting donations and fundraising. Our hotels aim to leave a positive impact on their neighbourhoods. At Axiom Hospitality, we are working closely with our stakeholders to support our social impact commitment. Caring about people extends outside our business and is part of our DNA.