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Maintenance Technician- CPT at Virgin Active South Africa

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**Overview** This role is for a Maintenance Technician in Cape Town (CPT) at Virgin Active South Africa. Virgin Active, established in 1999, is a fast-growing global health club business known for its outstanding customer service. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the optimal functionality and state of repair for the club's equipment and facilities, contributing to the positive experience for all members. **What you will do** * Manage the preventative maintenance and state of repair for all club equipment and facilities, including plant (HVAC), premises, and gym equipment, adhering to schedules, logs, and brand standards. This involves hands-on repairs where possible and communicating faults and action plans to relevant managers. * Inspect the club daily via walkabouts, review various checklists (job book, MOD, fitness), monitor pool conditions, and action tasks according to brand standards and follow up on maintenance issues. * Ensure comprehensive pool maintenance, including checks, key readings, dosing, backwashing, and general upkeep to operating and brand standards, liaising with management as required. * Manage your department to work within health and safety requirements, and familiarise yourself with the OSH Act. * Assist in maintaining brand standards and managing action plans/projects to the required standard, ensuring compliance to job specifications, contractor adherence to health and safety, and managing snag lists to conclusion. * Ensure club maintenance operates within budget by liaising with the Club General Manager (CGM) and ensuring all repairs and quotes are cost-effective. * Control and maintain stock levels, ensuring availability, using the e-procurement system with preferred suppliers, and monitoring quality and delivery of orders. * Manage the maintenance team to achieve scheduled tasks by prioritising, setting timelines, ensuring quality control, following up on completed tasks, and ensuring equitable task distribution and correct tool application. * Manage staffing by ensuring adequate training, communication of company initiatives, managing shift rosters and leave cycles, inducting staff, and developing a succession plan. * Be available for call-outs and telephonic assistance, and comply with any lawful and reasonable requests from management. **Requirements (from the original advert)** Qualification: Not specified Experience: Not specified **Who should apply** This role is ideal for a hands-on individual with strong organizational skills who is adept at preventative maintenance and reactive repairs across various types of equipment and facilities, including HVAC, gym equipment, and swimming pools. The successful candidate should be capable of managing projects, adhering to budgets, ensuring health and safety compliance, and leading a small maintenance team. They should be proactive in identifying issues and meticulous in record-keeping and follow-up, with an ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders. **Deadline** 07 October 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/maintenance-technician-cpt-virgin-active-south-africa Source: myjobmag

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    - Virgin Active was born in 1999. With 45 health clubs in the UK (8,500 employees!) and almost 250 globally, were one of the fastest-growing businesses within the Virgin Group. Were renowned for our outstanding customer service and helping our member be their personal best. Everyones welcome at Virgin Active. Young or old. Fit or unfit. Its all good. We set... Maintenance Technician- CPT --------------------------- * Job Type Full Time * Qualification * Experience * Location Western Cape * City Cape Town * Job Field Engineering / Technical Your Purpose... * Managing the preventative maintenance and state of repair to equipment and facilities * Managing action plans/projects to the required standard. * Managing maintenance plans & suppliers to within budget. * Managing the maintenance team to achieve desired results Your Duties and Responsibilities... MANAGING THE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND STATE OF REPAIR TO EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES Maintain and repair plant * Follow preventative schedule for HVAC * Communicate faults and action plans to CGM/Ops and Regional MM * Use maintenance log in system on intranet for faults * Adhere to downtime as stipulated on intranet * Be hands on and repair faults where possible Maintain and repair premises * Liaise with landlord/contractors on issues/repairs * Be hands on and repair and maintain where possible according to brand standards. Maintain and repair gym equipment * Complete and fax/email downtime reports to relevant contractors. * Ensure completion of preventative maintenance as per contractor stipulations * Maintain a history of equipment maintenance and preventative schedules * Be hands on, repair and maintain equipment according to brand standards Inspect club to establish daily maintenance tasks * Do visual inspection via walkabout. * Check job book, MOD checklists and fitness checklists. * Check pool and enter results on pool log. * Action tasks as per brand standards RAP sheet. * Follow up all maintenance related issues on the Hey Manager cards. * Schedule tasks from preventative maintenance schedule. * Liaise with CGM/Ops Manager on affects to operations in club. Ensure pool maintenance completed. * Ensure pool checked and pool key readings recorded according to operating standards. * Ensure inspection of weirs conducted. * Ensure pool dosed according to readings. * Ensure backwashing falls within pressure parameters. * Ensure pool internal and external maintained and repaired to brand standards. * Ensure temperatures displayed. * Liaise with Ops/CGM and RMM as required. * Ensure dosing systems do not run dry Manage health & safety requirements in the club * Manage your department to work within the health & safety requirements. * Familiarise yourself with the OSH Act. MANAGING ACTION PLANS/PROJECTS TO THE REQUIRED STANDARD Assist in ensuring that brand standards are maintained * Conduct regular brand standard checks. * Assist in developing RAP. * Assist GM/Ops to manage the RAP to conclusion. Manage projects to conclusion * Ensure compliance to job specs. * Ensure work areas left in condition found. * Manage contractor to adhere to health and safety standards. * Liaise with relevant parties. * Sign off contractors job card on completion if satisfactory and quality checked. * Follow up on snag lists. * Refer snags/issues to Regional Maintenance Manager. MANAGING MAINTENANCE PLANS & SUPPLIERS TO WITHIN BUDGET Ensure maintenance of Club is within budget. * Liaise with CGM on budget constraints/availability. * Ensure all repairs/costs/quotes to within budget. Control and maintain stock levels * Ensure there is sufficient stock available at all times. * Follow e-procurement system with the assistance from CGM/Ops using preferred suppliers and authorisation systems. * Check quality and delivery of orders. * Ensure stock control systems in place. MANAGING THE MAINTENANCE TEAM TO ACHIEVE DESIRED RESULTS Manage team to achieve scheduled tasks * Priorities and set timelines for team with tasks. * Adhere to quality control standards. * Follow up and check completed tasks. * Establish understanding of task and correct tool application. * Distribute tasks equitably in team including tasks to yourself. Manage staffing compliment * Ensure staff adequately trained to deliver on functional/operational needs. * Ensure communication on all company initiatives/launches. * Manage shift rosters/leave cycles. * Induct staff on operational needs * Have a succession plan. MISCELLANEOUS * Be available for call outs/ telephonic assistance. * Assist and comply with any lawful and reasonable requests from manager. Closing Date 07 October 2026 Check how your CV matches this job Method of Application ------------------------- Interested and qualified? Go to Virgin Active South Africa on virginactiveclubscoastal.simplify.hr to apply Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.

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