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Chief Engineer - JW Marriott Grosvenor House London
Role summary
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The Chief Engineer leads the hotel’s engineering and maintenance operation, ensuring guest rooms, public areas, plant systems and essential services remain safe, reliable and fully operational. Candidates are expected to have substantial experience in hotel engineering, facilities management or a comparable complex property, together with strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, HVAC, fire and health-and-safety systems. Relevant technical qualifications and experience managing contractors, budgets, preventive-maintenance programmes and compliance inspections are highly desirable. The role requires confident leadership, sound financial judgement, excellent communication and the ability to respond calmly to urgent operational issues. The successful candidate will support sustainability initiatives, develop the engineering team and maintain Marriott’s service and safety standards.
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How it works
How it works: Hotel jobs cannot be sponsored since July 2025; only youth schemes remain.
Official source: GOV.UK: Skilled Worker visa. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Live-in common in rural hotels |
|---|---|
| Meals | Staff meals common |
| Flights | No |
| Service charge | 100% of tips and service charges to staff (by law) |
| Contract | Permanent or seasonal |
| Leave | 28 days |
| Income tax | About 14% in all at GBP 25,000 |
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About JW Marriott Grosvenor House London
JW Marriott Grosvenor House London is a luxury hotel on Park Lane, overlooking Hyde Park and located in the heart of Mayfair. It is part of JW Marriott, Marriott International’s luxury brand, which focuses on refined hospitality, personalised service and wellbeing-inspired guest experiences. The property is one of London’s established grand hotels and offers accommodation, restaurants, bars, extensive meeting facilities and major event spaces. Its engineering team supports a large, historic and operationally demanding building, where reliability, presentation, energy efficiency and guest safety are especially important. Marriott International operates hotels and resorts worldwide and provides structured career development, training and employee benefits. Working at Grosvenor House can offer exposure to luxury hospitality, large-scale events, building-services management and international hotel standards in one of the world’s most competitive hospitality markets.