About This Role
This handyman role at a luxury resort in Mauritius involves a wide range of maintenance tasks, from carpentry and plumbing to masonry and painting. The position suits a skilled individual who can perform diverse repairs and upkeep while adhering to safety standards in a unique natural environment.
Responsibilities
- Ensure Occupational Safety & Health Act, local health and safety codes, and company safety and security policy are met by following safe work practices and observing safety rules and precautions
- Check works to be done by looking over the Log book
- Inform the Maintenance Manager Assistants of the tools and equipment needed
- Have a complete verification before an arrival in rooms
- Do repairs as per instructions of Maintenance Assistant Managers
- Repair wooden tables and partitions by changing damaged/spoiled woods, gluing together wooden partitions that have come off, scraping and polishing the wood, gluing and fixing the legs of the table, and re-varnishing the wood
- Repair doors and windows by polishing with a planning machine, detaching them if planning does not get within reach of the area to be repaired, adjusting pommels, planing pommels with sandpaper, fixing back pommels, and applying greasy product in the hinges
- Perform plumbing works including changing tap garnishes, making garnishes using a joint if a spare part is not available, changing fittings in showers or sinks, repairing toilet handles, replacing and repairing parts in the toilet tank, unplugging sinks, toilets, and shower areas, and unplugging discharge and blocked pipes
- Perform masonry works such as rough-casting cracks on walls, re-fixing tiles in the lounge entrance, rooms, and bathrooms, and placing bricks for pathways
- Perform painting tasks including retouching paint in hotel premises where necessary, mixing paints to get the desired color, and varnishing wooden tables to remove stains
- Perform cleaning of roofs as per established plan (Hotel, Villas, Golf and Quarters)
- Clean drains on request of Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Assistant Manager
Requirements
- Middle or Secondary Education
- Additional training or certificates in the relevant field is a plus
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in the hotel industry
- Proven experience working in top luxury resorts is a plus
- Solid experience with plumbing and electrical systems
- Ability to work with hardware tools and power equipment
- Extremely organized
- Detail-orientated skills
- Good problem-solving skills
- Fluency in English or another language, written and verbal communication
- Knowledge of a second language is a plus
