About the Role
The Handyman is responsible for maintaining, repairing, installation or replacing of building fabric and building services when they malfunction, break or need to be installed. Is responsible for periodic inspections and preventive maintenance of building and its services.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- To make himself familiar with the buildings and public areas, all pieces of equipment and installation, pipe and cable routing, valves and control panels, ducting, dampers and electrical, water and gas meters.
- To continuously give feedback to the supervisor on tasks pertaining to the trade.
- To perform room maintenance as per Perfect Room Program checklist.
- To perform public areas maintenance as per PAM program checklist.
- To fill and record any discrepancies found in the rooms and public areas and inform supervisor accordingly.
- Should be able to determine sources of possible defects in order to prevent unexpected breakdowns and perform proper repairs.
- Be proactive.
- Responsible for the tools provided by the hotel.
- Must be able to work without constant supervision.
- Ensure that safety aspects are looked at.
- Must be familiar with fire detection systems, fire - fighting and escape routes– smoke and heat detectors, call points, fire hose reels and fire hydrants.
- To attend fire alarm calls out and assists as per fire alarm procedures.
- Ensure that emergency situations are dealt with tact and solved accordingly.
- Ensure that hotel assets are protected while performing duty.
- Must ensure that protective equipment is used wherever applicable.
- To maintain a clear and clean workplace.
- To attend weekend and public holiday duties as per roster.
- To attend morning briefings and wrap up sessions in the afternoon.
- To assist work undergone by either outside contractors or in-house.
- Is expected to make himself available at any time to carry out any job outside the scope of his daily work according to the needs of the operations or intervene personally on repair and maintenance work.
- To be able to work in team as required by the nature of the work for good functioning of operations and pertaining to guest satisfaction.
- Must report to his unit as soon as a cyclone warning class 2 is declared and start organizing all prevention measures and also make sure that he is operating under safety measures.
- To ensure that all maintenance requests is logged in the maintenance request book and communicated for action to the related person.
- To attend to daily maintenance request as assigned.
- To fill in the maintenance request logbook once job completed providing all details as required in the log book.
- To be able to attend phone calls and liaise with guests as per company norms.
- Should have good communication skills with other departments relating to maintenance work.
About you
The desired qualification for this role is at least a Diploma in Maintenance or an NTC 3 Diploma. The ideal candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in the same role in an international ultra-luxury resort and must be fluent in written and spoken English and French.
