Lead Engineer
Role Overview
Lead Engineer at The Vineyard Hotel, responsible for maintenance, compliance, safety, and operation of facilities, plant, equipment, and infrastructure.
Reports to the General Manager and Hotel Property Manager and leads the Maintenance Department.
The role is hands-on and supports a safe, efficient property and guest experience.
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Role overview
Lead Engineer at The Vineyard Hotel, responsible for maintenance, compliance, safety, and operation of facilities, plant, equipment, and infrastructure.
Reports to the General Manager and Hotel Property Manager and leads the Maintenance Department.
The role is hands-on and supports a safe, efficient property and guest experience.
Team leadership
- Lead, motivate, coach, and develop the Maintenance Team through training, performance reviews, and development planning.
- Manage team rotas and workload distribution for operational coverage; promote accountability, continuous improvement, safety, and wellbeing.
Facilities maintenance
- Manage planned preventative maintenance and oversee reactive maintenance across the hotel.
- Inspect and maintain guestrooms, public areas, restaurants, bars, leisure facilities, and back-of-house areas.
- Support asset lifecycle management, long-term maintenance planning, and property improvement projects.
Safety and compliance
- Lead maintenance-related health and safety activities and ensure health, safety, fire, environmental, and statutory compliance.
- Manage fire safety systems, emergency lighting, water hygiene, risk assessments, safe systems of work, permits, and contractor controls.
- Manage asbestos procedures and site controls, incident investigations, corrective actions, emergency response, business continuity, and LOTO procedures.
Water safety and CAFM
- Oversee swimming pool plant operations, testing, and maintenance; act as appointed person for water hygiene management and follow Legionella risk assessment recommendations.
- Liaise with water treatment specialists and maintain water system testing and remedial action records.
- Manage the hotel's CAFM system and ensure maintenance activities are logged, tracked, completed, and documented.
- Monitor maintenance performance, analyze trends, identify improvements, and produce reports.
Requirements
- Experience in electrical, mechanical, or related building services disciplines.
- Proactive, technically skilled professional able to lead hotel facilities and maintenance operations.
- The role requires team leadership, maintenance planning, safety compliance, contractor management, water hygiene, and CAFM oversight.
Schedule
- Permanent, full-time role with 40 hours per week.
- Five days on and two days off per week; shifts are split as required to ensure seven-day hotel coverage.
- Role starts in January 2027 ahead of the hotel's planned February 2027 reopening.
Compensation
- Competitive salary; no pay cadence or amount is specified.
Workplace
- The role is based at The Vineyard Hotel in Newbury and requires work across hotel facilities.
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