Careers Maintenance Manager

Be you. At work.

Here at Locke, we create spaces where you can be you – and we don’t just mean our design-led aparthotels. From front desk to back office, on-the-ground to behind-the-scenes, our team makes Locke what it is. Forget demographics: we’re building a community of the culturally curious. The forward-thinking. The ever-questioning.

Locke is growing. With new openings across the UK and Europe coming up, we’re at an exciting time in our young life. Want to get stuck in? Roll up your sleeves and let’s go.

The role.

Are you a handyperson? A practical powerhouse who carries tools in case of an emergency? Can you spot a maintenance problem before it even becomes one?

As our Maintenance Manager, you’ll make Ember Locke feel like home by keeping our building and apartments looking fresh, so our guests feel comfortable, relaxed and cared-for. Reporting to the Head of Facilities, with a dotted line to the General Manager, you’ll oversee services, repairs, painting, and upkeep of apartments to standards worth writing home about.

What it looks like.

• Working with the General Manager to set an annual maintenance budget and sticking to it throughout the year
• Coaching and being accountable for your team, including setting SMART objectives
• Delegating effectively to keep things running like clockwork and regularly reviewing service contracts and purchase orders
• Creating and delivering a refurbishment schedule
• Making sure apartments are looking and working their best for guests’ arrivals and throughout their stays
• Carrying out maintenance quickly and efficiently to minimise impact on revenue, as well as looking ahead to possible future maintenance issues and proactively resolving them

What you'll need.

• Human-led leadership skills and experience managing a team
• Ideally plumbing, gas and electrical trade qualifications and ideally experience of launching a new building
• Intuitive customer service and natural influencing skills with a knack for managing expectations
• Brain built for problem solving and reliable decision-making
• Confidence to act quickly and take smart risks based on insight
• Strong grasp of spoken and written English
• Impeccable attention to detail and rock-solid time management
• Flexible approach and a can-do attitude
• Confidence using IT systems and software (including Microsoft Office

In return we offer you a bonus scheme, holidays (including the option to buy more if you want them), a host of wellbeing benefits (Cash Plan, Life Assurance, Long Term Income Protection, an Employee Assistance Programme…), free nights in our properties, awesome recognition schemes, pension (the tax efficient way), company sick pay and further benefits tailored to your individual needs. We also offer you excellent travel and development opportunities!

Values you'll share.

• Courage to question, evolve and be human 
• Curiosity to seek out innovation, change and creativity 
• Confidence to challenge convention and look for better ways to do and be 
• Accountability and the desire to empower those around you 
• Freedom to be yourself at work, just as much as at play 
• Acceptance that perfection doesn’t exist and no-one has a monopoly on good ideas 
• Recognition of humanity in yourself and others to learn fast, evolve and grow

When and Where?

We believe in working flexibly – this includes flexibility in work location, working days (including weekends and bank holidays in operations) and working hours. This may be ad hoc or permanent flexibility.  Ask your recruiting manager or see our careers page for more information.

You’ll work 37.5 hours, across five days per week.

About edyn

Our vision is to create sanctuaries across European cities, which provide a sense of belonging to the free-thinking urbanite in all of us. Each of our brands – Locke, Cove, SACO, Wittenberg and The Moorgate – is firmly rooted in the local neighbourhood, offering vibrant experiences and connections which nourish and enliven the soul. To find out more about what it’s like to work at edyn, visit https://www.findingedyn.com/start-here-go-anywhere

About Locke
Beautifully designed, one-of-a-kind, locally inspired aparthotels. Made to be lived in, not just slept in. Where home meets lifestyle hotel. Work meets life. People connect with themselves, and the community. Another way to stay. To find out more about Locke, visit http://lockeliving.com/.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement 

edyn’s Purpose is to build brands designed around Soulful Hospitality -we create sanctuaries where free thinkers can nourish and enliven their souls. This is only possible if the growth of our company is centred around a deep respect for humanity. Everyone at edyn should feel free and safe to express their ideas, state their opinions and share their lived experiences in an environment of openness, tolerance, and curiosity. 

This principle sits at the heart of our approach to improving diversity and inclusion. We have established goals and supporting commitments which will help us ensure that everyone in edyn feels a sense of belonging, regardless of their background or identity. 

We are on a DEI journey that we have yet to complete, and we acknowledge our failures or weaknesses as we discover them. Our principle & goals are clear, and we travel together to seek to drive change, evolve ourselves and the edyn community.