Job Ref: DAL5797
Branch: Clayton Hotel Bristol
Location: Clayton Bristol Hotel, Bristol
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 24/08/2026
Closing date: 24/09/2026
Facilities Manager
Kickstart your career with us at Dalata Hotel Group! This role offers a fantastic opportunity for growth and development in the vibrant hospitality sector. Benefit from Dalata Academy programmes, courses and learning tools that equip you with essential skills and knowledge while also providing exposure to senior team members who can mentor you.
We are committed to promoting from within, so your dedication can lead to exciting internal opportunities. If you are ready to enhance your career and make an impact in a supportive environment, join us at Dalata Hotel Group!
Reporting to the Hotel Manager, the Facilities Manager will ensure the property is maintained to the highest possible standards. You will be professional, enthusiastic and trustworthy. You will demonstrate excellent team leading abilities as well as the initiative required to multi task in this busy environment.
Benefits
- Free employee meals on duty
- 50% Off FB in all properties
- €/£60 employee rate on rooms for all Dalata-owned hotels
- 30% off rate for your Friends Family
- Extra AL day for every year worked (5 days to a maximum of 5 days)
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme/Transport Schemes
- Pension access (Ask your HR Manager for local pension information)
- Development Opportunities through our Dalata Academy- support your career journey
- Staff Appreciation Initiatives, fun team-building activities and regular charity events
Your Job:
- Supervise and provide general maintenance support.
- Oversee plumbers, electricians, and other outside contractors to ensure that work is completed to a satisfactory standard and that the workspace is returned to order.
- Source suppliers, negotiate prices, and renegotiate annual contracts for all hotel and kitchen equipment, including health and safety items such as fire extinguishers, alarms, and defibrillators.
- Liaise with the accounts department to ensure all purchases align with the budget, ensuring that a purchase order is completed and approved for all transactions.
- Establish a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guide for duty managers to follow regarding any maintenance or health and safety issues that may arise in the absence of the maintenance team. Provide full training to duty managers on this SOP.
- Reactively modify procedures and address any reported incidents to minimize risk and prevent recurrence.
- Monitor utilities and actively seek more energy-efficient solutions.
- Project manage all refurbishment or capital expenditure projects in a cost-effective manner, ensuring compliance with Dalata and health and safety standards.
- Set a good example for your team regarding work ethic, attitude, personal presentation, punctuality, and attendance.
What You'll Need:
- Previous management experience in a similar hotel environment
- Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment and be standards-driven
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety
- Have great relationship-building skills with the customers and the team
- Flexibility in day-to-day job demands, remain focused when priorities and practices change.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Electric and plumbing qualifications would be advantageous
About Us
Dalata Hotel Group – We bring the heart of hospitality to every hotel we own and operate. We see our growth and expansion plans as a way of spreading our unique way of caring for our guests further around the world, bringing better experiences to more people. Currently, the Dalata difference can be felt at each of our hotels in Ireland, the UK, Germany the Netherlands, and we’ll keep expanding this further, focusing on key UK cities, Dublin and Continental Europe.
Helping our people to grow and develop their careers is vitally important to us and is one of our highest priorities. We have many exciting and unique internal development programmes, each crafted to make sure our employees get the learning they need to be able to take the next step in their careers.
Dalata Hotel Group Plc is an Inclusive Employer. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply to be part of our team. However, we understand everyone's needs are different; therefore, if you require any accommodations with this application process, please highlight your needs when you are completing your application process.
Welcome to Clayton Hotel Bristol City where our famously personal way makes your time with us a little more special.
Our 4-star hotel is located right in the heart of Bristol City. From fine dining, shopping and culture, you’re connected to everything. Located in the old city at the walls of St Johns, a short stroll from Bristol’s shopping quarter and Bristol harbourside, it’s a place that has everything from food, culture and entertainment. If you want to see even more of the area, we’re conveniently located by several bus routes with scooter and bike rental available nearby.
A modern contemporary hotel housed in the Grade ll listed Everards print works. The design of the building celebrates Bristol’s connection to art whilst restoring a piece of local history.
