Campus Director (P5) (Facilities Management: Doornfontein Campus) at University of Johannesburg

Job Description:

To manage the campus in a manner that academic and support services are executed optimally. To provide support to core business of UJ and ensure effective and efficient service delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Direct the maintenance of all facilities and infrastructure on campus.
• Manage Campus Committees and activities on campus.
• Facilitate the effective management of all facilities at UJ.
• Act as a representative of Executive Management and the Vice-Chancellor on specific campus.
• Oversee the implementation of the campus master development plan.
• Direct the Planning and Execution of new Capital Projects (small and large) that are not multicampus.
• Initiate the procurement processes for goods and services by acting on requests from internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Occupational Safety regarding duties as per 16.2 appointees.
• Effectively and efficiently manage operational staff on campus
• Liaise with Protection Services to ensure effective and efficient protection of staff and students on campus.
• Ensure effective Planning, Coordination and Monitoring of large events in liaison with Event Owner, Protection Services, Safety and Occupational Health plus Auxiliary Services and relevant parties e.g., City Community Safety, Power, Traffic, Communities etc.  
• Manage all campus related contracts and ensure compliance with these.

Minimum requirements

• Postgraduate qualification (NQF 8) in Engineering or Finance/Law/Management
• Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in operations and facilities management
• Five (5) years' experience compiling, set-up, and management of budgets
• Minimum of five (5) years' in the Engineering and the Built environment with reference to buildings and essential technical services.
• Minimum of five (5) years' experienc in Maintenance planning taking into consideration the consequences of each failure, statutory requirements, framework of maintenance strategies and performance requirements
• Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in the development of concept policies, strategies, procedures, guidelines, norms, and standards
• Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in planning (materials, manpower, equipment, plant, and logistics)
• Five (5) years implementation and management of the Occupational Health & Safety Act and relevant legislative requirements.
• Five (5) years diagnosis of faults in the Engineering and the Built environment, and to analyze failures to establish the root causes of failures (hands on experience required).
• Five (5) years' proven general management experience of teams and groups of people
• Five (5) to eight (8) years proven experience in the effective management of projects
• Five (5) to eight (8) years experience in Utilities management

Competencies and Behavioural Attributes:

• Communicate effectively with all levels of employees and across all levels
• Facilitate change management
• Effectively identify faults and solve problems
• Negotiate effectively
• Asset performance analysis skills
• Coordinating skills
• Critical and analytical thinking
• People and performance management
• Knowledge to monitor the development, implementation and revisions of methods, systems, and procedures including those pertinent to computer applications in space, utilities and project management
• Ability to coordinating work with external professional teams, clients, operations personnel, and other stakeholders
• Ability to evaluate the cost-effectiveness in the management of the maintenance function with reference to Engineering and Built environment
• Ability to determine the level of compliance with required internal policies, procedures, guidelines, norms, and standards

Recommendations:

• Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
• Five (5) years' experience working in a Tertiary environment
• Five (5) to eight (8) years space and asset management