Property Maintenance / Shift Engineer Apprentice - Aloft London Excel
ADCG HOTELS LIMITED
London (E16 1FR)
Closes in 15 days (Friday 20 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 February 2026
Contents
Summary
Aloft London Excel is a 252-room hotel in East London seeking a reliable Shift Engineer to carry out planned preventative maintenance and repairs across guest rooms, meeting rooms, and public areas, ensuring facilities are safe and well maintained.
Due to the nature of the role, applicants must be 18+.
- Wage
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£31,948.97 a year
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 40 hours (32 hours working and 8 hours college), 30 minute lunch break. Times to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 April 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As a Shift Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the hotel’s facilities to a high standard, ensuring a safe, efficient, and welcoming environment for guests and staff.
Key responsibilities include:
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and minor repairs in guest rooms, meeting rooms, and public areas
- Responding to maintenance and repair requests in a timely and professional manner
- Ensuring all work is completed in line with health, safety, and security procedures, including correct use of tools, equipment, and PPE
- Identifying and reporting maintenance issues and safety hazards to management
- Maintaining accurate records
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across departments and supporting the wider engineering team
- Providing a friendly, professional service and responding positively to guest needs
This role involves physical work, including lifting and carrying equipment.
Where you'll work
One Eastern Gateway
Royal Victoria Dock
London
E16 1FR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
- Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
- Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
- Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
- Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
- Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
- Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
- Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
- Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
- Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
- Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
- Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
- Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
- Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
- Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
- Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
- Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
- Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
- Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
- Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
- Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
- Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
- Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
- Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
- Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
- Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
- Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
- Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
- Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
- Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
- Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
- Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
Training schedule
This apprenticeship is delivered as a weekly day release at our site in Stratford, E15.
- Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship Standard
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 / C or above)
- Maths (grade 4 / C or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Decoration/painting knowledge
- Knowledge of electricity
- Knowledge of plumbing
- Hand/power tools experience
- Integrity
- Self-Development
- Dependability
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Safety Orientation
- Company Polices Knowledge
Other requirements
Desirable:
- Technical, Trade, or Vocational School Degree
- At least 2 years of related work experience
About this employer
Aloft London Excel has been operating since 2011. It features 252 loft-like guest rooms, a buzzing bar, appetising restaurant, quick grab-and-go food shop and recharging area with Swimming pool, Sauna, Steam room and Gym. Located in tranquillity of East London but just few stops away from the hustle of London is a perfect location for guests coming into Excel London Exhibition and flying in/out from London City airport.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
There is an opportunity to secure a permanent position after successfully completing the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000012314.
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Closes in 15 days (Friday 20 February 2026 at 11:59pm)