Maintenance staff members are expected to clean, maintain, and repair various resort facilities. With the incredible variety of recreational activities, this work may involve an almost limitless range of duties from site to site. Therefore, as you might image, to list the specific duties of every maintenance job would almost be impossible.

As a result, for the purposes of understanding the job responsibilities of maintenance staff at resorts, the information below is a generalization.

Maintenance Job Duties

Some maintenance workers, especially those at the lower end of the pay scale, merely perform janitorial or custodial activities such as sweeping or mopping, but others fix resort equipment such as vehicles, Jacuzzis, or climate control machinery. There are others too, that take on construction and landscaping tasks, making repairs to the structure of the resort and keeping the entire appearance of the building perfectly manicured. Depending on resort amenities and size, some maintenance workers will be given one specific task while others will take on a number of responsibilities. Regardless of how your maintenance job unfolds you can likely expect new and exciting tasks with each new shift.

Salary and Application Requirements

The amount of experience or training necessary for these jobs varies depending on the precise nature of the duties expected by each company, but generally the more experienced you are, the larger your responsibilities and the more you can earn. Additionally, most maintenance staff members don't have a formal education and any work education has been gained either through apprenticeships or vocational schools, if any.

Like housekeeping jobs, maintenance isn't a customer service position. So for those people who like to work alone on specific tasks, maintenance work is a good choice.

Additionally, a strong command of the English language isn't always necessary and a large number of landscaping and maintenance jobs will go to non-native English speakers or foreign students.

Resort maintenance jobs at the high end of the pay scale are likely to be year-round and permanent. Carpentry, plumbing, electrical, construction, or mechanical skills translates well to maintenance work of this kind and those with the above experiences will act more as a building services manager than a bathroom cleaner. Workers on the high end of the pay scale and who work for top resorts can make as much as $30 an hour. Other positions, which vary between full and part-time work earn closer to $15 an hour. A large number of these jobs will require a uniform.

Keep in mind that your specific job duties as well as the location, size, and type of the resort that you work for, will largely affect pay.

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