Maintenance Technician - Northumberland/ Durham

Host & Stay•Durham, NC

2d•$15

About The Position

We’re looking for a hardworking, driven and passionate candidate to join our team as we continue our growth in 2025, helping our owners to maintain their high quality properties, and to ensure our guests receive the very best customer service whilst staying with us. This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the fastest growing holiday management companies in the UK. Reporting to the National Head of Maintenance you will follow a maintenance schedule as outlined by the Company, inspecting, and verifying the status of employer assets, making repairs and adjustments as needed. This role does require you to travel to our properties across Northumberland, including Durham and surrounding areas. A company van and fuel card will be provided. There will also be an element of on call needed. This is a full-time 40hr contract, Monday - Friday. Salary is based on £15ph, with additional compensation for call-outs across late nights and weekends. You will conduct general maintenance of buildings including undertaking repairs and responding to guest emergency call outs providing an excellent standard of work and customer service. You will be skilled in a variety of areas including plumbing, carpentry, and electrical systems. Job duties vary from performing highly technical maintenance work like electrical maintenance to more everyday maintenance where you will be completing routine and emergency repairs to buildings, equipment, fixtures, fittings and building systems. To excel in this position, you must be an outstanding problem solver with exceptional communication and organisational skills. We’re looking for a candidate who is hardworking, sets high standards, likes a challenge, is a team player and who understands customer service excellence. Are you an experienced maintenance technician who is looking for a new, exciting challenge? If you answered yes, then look no further, a role at Host and Stay is just what you are looking for. Who is Host & Stay? Host & Stay is based in Saltburn-by-the-sea and provides full service holiday home property management to over 1100 properties across the UK. Host & Stay was born from a love and passion for property, and a desire to lead the change in an age old industry. Our vision is simple, to help property owners maximise their income, maximise their returns, and reduce their fees and their hassle. We’re on a mission to make the UK one of the most popular, guest centric holiday destinations in the world – but not at the expense of holiday homeowners paying high management fees and seeing very little, if any return on their investments. We want our customers and communities to succeed and thrive. We have ambitious plans for further growth and impact, and we need the right people to take this leap with us. It may be challenging at times, but you can be assured that it is going to be rewarding and inspiring. After all, we are changing lives, every day, in all that we do.

Requirements

Good team spirit.
Availability to perform on-call duties.
An ability to work individually and as part of a team.
Proven Experience as a Multi-skilled Maintenance Technician.
Good aptitude in using appropriate tools for each task.
Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
Be able to work unsupervised and on own initiative.
Be organised and can prioritise tasks.
Skilled in a variety of areas including plumbing, carpentry, and electrical systems.
IT Literate and be able to use applications and upload documents.
Having a can-do attitude and being open to learning new skills.
Full driving license (if you have a disability, we will explore reasonable adjustments with you).

Responsibilities

Conduct general maintenance of buildings including undertaking repairs
Responding to guest emergency call outs providing an excellent standard of work and customer service
Performing highly technical maintenance work like electrical maintenance
Completing routine and emergency repairs to buildings, equipment, fixtures, fittings and building systems