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Job Ref: 13194 Branch: Apex Waterloo Place Hotel Location: Apex Waterloo Place Hotel, Edinburgh Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary plus excellent company benefits & perks. Contract type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Hours per week: 40 Posted date: 08/06/2026 Closing date: 22/07/2026 You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as Maintenance Manager. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It is these values that support you to be yourself here at Apex Hotels. By bringing your own personality, passion, and ideas to the role, you will add a new dynamic to our innovative and supportive Maintenance and Engineering Team. We believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels. Role Overview: As Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of Planned and Reactive maintenance services to the hotel's building fabric, FF&E, plant and systems. Acting as the line manager to a team of on site Maintenance Technicians, you will take a proactive and hands on approach to maintenance that leads from the front and through example. Core to your role is the hotel's Computerised Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) that you will utilise to maintain accurate record keeping, process reactive repairs and schedule planned maintenance activities of both your direct team and external contractors. Main Responsibilities: • Line management of on-site maintenance team including the driving of productivity and high maintenance standards through ongoing mentoring and development, • Reporting regularly to the Hotel Operations Director on the status of maintenance delivery, • Providing the hands-on skills and knowledge necessary to maintain the hotel and embedded systems in fully compliant, optimal condition, • Undertaking regular and proactive inspection of building fabric, plant and systems ensuring high standards of maintenance are maintained, • Delivery of Planned and Reactive maintenance services, • Liaising closely with other hotel departments and wider management team to support continual improvement of property maintenance standards, • Accurate record keeping and the maintaining of the CMMS data base up to date, • Supervision of 3^rd^ party contractors, • Purchase ordering of maintenance spares and outsourced specialist services, • Health & Safety management, including Statutory Compliance, Risk Assessment, Permits to Work and guarding of safe working practices, • Developing knowledge of hotel plant and systems including their switching, control and optimisation, • Actively seeking to improve the hotels Environmental performance through implementation of initiatives to reduce the consumption of utilities. About you: We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will: • Hold a minimum of 3 years management or supervisory experience within the building maintenance or facilities management arena, • Be mechanically or electrically qualified or hold other relevant trade qualification, • Be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of building fabric related trades and practices, • Strong knowledge of the operation, control and maintenance of building services plant and systems (HVAC/ MEP), • Hold sound knowledge of Statutory Compliance activities related to the built environment, • Hold familiarity with the function and use of Microsoft Office suite of programmes, • Have previous experience in the use of CAFM/ CMMS or similar software, • Hold strong people management and communication skills, • Be an enthusiastic self-starter, able to motivate and inspire others, • Have achieved a Pool Plant Operator Qualification (desirable), • Hold a level 3 qualification in Health & Safety (desirable), • Live within daily commutable distance of Edinburgh City Centre, • Hold willingness to work at other Apex sites as directed, some of which may involve travel from your normal place of work. This role has supervisory duties of other team members. You will work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes: • 35 days holiday, • Training and development from day one, • Employee events and celebrations, • Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP, • Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools, • Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working., • Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme, • Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date., • £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team. Following your first successful 3 months, you'll also receive ...... • Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform "Treat Yourself Here", unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family., • Involvement in our employee recognition schemes, • Long service recognition, • Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two, • 50% discount in our restaurants, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family, • Spa treatments and product discounts, • Life Assurance cover We encourage you to bring your true self to work. We'll provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. Our family can never be too big, there's a place here for you. We have one ask - that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark. We're an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey. This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. However, candidates who were granted Skilled Worker status prior to 22 July 2025 who have had continuous permission may still qualify for sponsorship. If you are interested, click apply. We look forward to hearing from you ! About Apex Waterloo Place Hotel The Georgian features of the Apex Waterloo Place building make it both a timeless and elegant hotel. Located at the east end of Princes Street, this hotel stands in the desirable New Town location just moments from Calton Hill, George Street and Waverley Train Station making it central and convenient. With its corniced ceilings, Georgian windows and fireplace, Elliot's Bar & Restaurant seamlessly blends its building's rich history with contemporary design details. The menu mixes traditional Scottish dishes with innovative, globally inspired bursts of flavour. The restaurant's food complements an array of wines, cocktails, spirits and hand-picked Scottish whiskies.

Job Ref: 13192 Branch: Head Office - Edinburgh Location: Head Office, Edinburgh Salary/Benefits: Competitive salary plus excellent company benefits & perks Contract type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Hours per week: 40 Posted date: 05/06/2026 Closing date: 19/07/2026 Why Join Apex Hotels ? You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as a Group,Conference,and Events Manager in Edinburgh. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It is these values that support you to be yourself here at Apex Hotels. By bringing your own personality, passion, and ideas to the role, you will add a new dynamic to our innovative and supportive Events and Group Team. We believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels. Main Purpose of Job To lead and inspire a regional team of event planners, a pivotal role responsible for driving event sales performance, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering exceptional client experiences across all conference and event spaces. Specific Tasks Leadership & Team Management • Responsible for delivery of both personal and team KPI's, • Lead, coach, and develop a team of on-site conference and events planners across multiple hotel locations., • Foster a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement., • Ensuring the team deliver performance metrics, conversion rates, and pipeline activity to identify growth opportunities Sales & Revenue Management • Drive conference and event revenue across the region and wider group, working closely with Head of Groups, Conference & Events, other regional GCE Managers, proactive sales teams and revenue managers., • Analyse and pre-emption of GC&E revenue risk and gaps, working with regional Head of GC&E to develop and implement strategies to address revenue gaps, • Input to and support the development and execution of regional sales strategies and promotional campaigns. Client Relationship Management • Act as a senior point of contact for key clients and high-value events, ensuring exceptional service delivery., • Oversee the end-to-end planning and execution of complex and/or multi-site events., • Ensure consistent service standards and client satisfaction across all properties. Operational Excellence • Ensure team follow event planning processes and documentation across primary region, • Ensure compliance with brand standards, health & safety, and legal requirements., • Collaborate with key stake holders including hotel operational teams to ensure seamless event delivery. Reporting • Lead on regular performance reports and insights to senior leadership. Reporting Structure • Head of Groups Conference & Events Scotland, • This post has management responsibility for GCE Assistant Manager and GCE Executives, • Whilst this role will have accountability to a specific primary region, as business needs require, this will expand to cover all Apex Hotels and locations to the same standard and role responsibilities About you: You will be a true people person, dedicated to the development and growth of our people and our culture. Through your personal credibility you will naturally create, develop and sustain high trust relationships with all stakeholders. You will have a real passion for events, and you will have excellent attention to detail in order to provide consistent standards. You will be great at multi-tasking, you will be efficient at solving guest/client enquiries and all with a smile and infectious personality! Personal Characteristics and Competencies We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have: • Proven experience in a senior conference and events role within the hospitality industry, ideally across multiple sites and/or large teams., • Strong leadership and team development skills., • Commercially astute with a track record of achieving revenue targets., • Excellent communication, negotiation, and client relationship skills., • Highly organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities., • Proficient in event management systems (e.g., Infor, Delphi, Opera, or similar). You will work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes: • 30 days holiday, • Training and development from day one, • Employee events and celebrations, • Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP, • Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools, • Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme, • Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date, • £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team Following your first successful 3 months, you'll also receive... • Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform "Treat Yourself Here", unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family, • Involvement in our employee recognition schemes, • Long service recognition, • Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two, • 50% discount in our restaurants, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family, • Spa treatments and product discounts, • Life Assurance cover We encourage you to bring your true self to work. We'll provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. Our family can never be too big, there's a place here for you. We have one ask - that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark. We're an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey. Please note, this role does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. If thisis you,Click Apply. We look forward to hearing from you.

Job Ref: 13190 Branch: Head Office - Edinburgh Location: Head Office, Edinburgh Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary plus excellent company benefits & perks. Contract type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Hours per week: 40 Posted date: 05/06/2026 Closing date: 19/07/2026 Role specification Work in partnership with our Operational teams and Head Office business leaders, providing proactive and pragmatic coaching, support and advice on a range of people management activities to drive their people plans, and Company strategic aims and objectives. You will demonstrate a best-in-class business partnering service to develop HR and cultural competency and knowledge, and enhance our people experience through our culture of Be Yourself Here, along with Apex's purpose, values and objectives. Reporting to The Head of People Journey, this role forms part of our wider People & Culture team. This role is based in Edinburgh and requires travel to our other sites in Scotland to support onsite People and Culture activities, along with flexibility to travel occasionally across the UK to support onsite activities, as required. • Proactive leadership of People Adviser, coaching and mentoring to unlock their full potential and foster professional development, • Work closely with business leaders to understand business challenges and opportunities, and provide commercially focussed coaching, support and advice on medium and long-term solutions to meet business needs and Company strategic aims, • Provide timely and effective management of complex people issues including disciplinary and grievance cases, performance management, sickness absence and wellbeing and other ER-related activities escalated from the People Advisor, • Analyse insight and translate key data into effective and commercially focused evidence-based people solutions to influence strategic and leadership action, • Support agreed acquisition and onboarding activities in relation to people policy and processes for target Company acquisitions, providing specialist support as required, • Support the Head of People Journey in the adoption of new technologies, automation, and data analytics to modernise services and improve people journeys, • Design and develop process and procedural enhancements working with the Head of People Journey to optimise the overall employee experience and streamline people journeys aligned with overall business objectives About you This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has solid understanding of stakeholder management, employee relations, engagement, well-being, D&I, employment legislation, and people policies. Along with: • CIPD qualified (or equivalent), • Previous experience of working within an HR function, with the ability to apply HR practice in a pragmatic, high quality and efficient manner, • Good knowledge and level of expertise of employee relations and people-based issues, with an understanding of the strategic function of human resources to deliver commercially sound solutions, • Professional Human Resources experience with a proven track record of effectively managing employment relations issues, • Experience of working in a fast-paced agile environment, balancing a varied and high-volume workload, • Sound understanding of employee relations, engagement, wellbeing, D&I, Employment legislation, people policies etc., with knowledge of how these interplay to deliver positive cultural and people experiences Why join Apex Hotels We're an innovative, thriving business and we want you to be part of our exciting journey! You'll work with great people, develop new networks and skills, and of course you'll also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes: • 30 days holiday, • Training and development from day one, • Employee events and celebrations, • Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP, • Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools, • Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme, • Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date., • £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team. Following your first successful 3 months, you'll also receive... • Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform "Treat Yourself Here", unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family., • Involvement in our employee recognition schemes, • Long service recognition, • Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two, • 50% discount in our restaurants, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family, • Spa treatments and product discounts, • Life Assurance cover This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. However, candidates who were granted Skilled Worker status prior to 22 July 2025 who have had continuous permission may still qualify for sponsorship.