Maintenance Support Coordinator (Secondment)

Super 8 | London | Hybrid Working

Working pattern: 2–3 days per week
Location: Hybrid – home working and visits to SUPER 8 restaurants
Reports to: Maintenance Administrator and Operations Director
Additional benefit: Incremental tronc supplement
Estimated secondment length: 2 months

The Opportunity

We’re offering an exciting secondment opportunity for a motivated and organised team member looking to develop new skills and gain experience beyond their current role.

Working alongside the Maintenance Administrator, you’ll support maintenance coordination across our restaurant portfolio, helping manage our Access Maintain system, coordinate contractors and keep maintenance records up to date.

This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience in multi-site operations, budgeting, cost control and project coordination while helping keep our restaurants running smoothly.

Key Responsibilities

Support our maintenance system: Help roll out and manage Access Maintain across our sites, supporting site teams with training and ensuring maintenance requests are logged and tracked.
Coordinate maintenance and repairs: Arrange planned preventative maintenance (PPM) visits and reactive repairs with contractors and restaurant teams, keeping the operations diary up to date.
Manage contractor visits: Communicate scheduled works to site teams, ensure management attendance where required and follow up on outstanding jobs, snagging and remedial works.
Support cost control: Assist with reviewing quotations, invoices and maintenance expenditure, checking costs and confirming completed works.
Maintain records and compliance: Help keep compliance documentation, asset registers and maintenance records accurate and up to date.
Visit restaurant sites: Carry out monthly site visits to review maintenance requirements, completed works and outstanding issues.
Support project coordination: Work with the maintenance team to track planned works, coordinate contractors and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed.

About You:

We’re looking for someone who is organised, proactive and keen to learn. You’ll have:

Strong administrative and organisational skills, with good attention to detail.
Good communication skills and confidence working with different teams and contractors.
An interest in budgeting, cost control and project management.
Good IT skills and the ability to learn new systems.
A practical approach to problem-solving and following up outstanding tasks.
Some knowledge of hospitality equipment and maintenance requirements.
Previous maintenance experience and knowledge of Access Maintain are essential.

What You’ll Gain

Experience working across multiple restaurant sites and with our Central Team.
Development of budgeting, commercial awareness and cost-control skills.
Hands-on experience in project management and contractor coordination.
Exposure to facilities management and maintenance systems.
An incremental Tronc supplement in recognition of the additional responsibilities.

If you’re interested in developing new skills and broadening your experience within SUPER 8, we’d love to hear from you.