Facilities Manager at Empact Group

The Main Purpose of the job

The incumbent will be responsible to coordinates the installation, maintenance, and repair work in building. They will manage a team of workers, regularly inspect the site, execute work as necessary, maintain equipment and assign workers to various projects.

Education and Experience required:

• Matric of relevant bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Facilities Management or Technical equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in FM on Senior Management level.
• Thorough understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling
• Advanced Excel and Word Proficiency

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:

• An understanding of Customer Care
• An understanding of Health and Safety issues
• Ability to analyze facts and exercise sound judgment in arriving at conclusions
• Ability to develop long-term plans and programs and to evaluate work accomplishments
• Ability to read and interpret documents
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality
• Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process
• Makes timely decisions
• Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Organizes or schedules other people and their tasks
• Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own
• actions
• Keeps commitments
• Demonstrable track record of achieving results (operational, projects, people)
• Problem solving ability – ability to think out of the box and ability to adapt to changes in working conditions
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask
• Successful track record of exercising judgement/effective decision making

Key areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for the maintenance and repair (including structural repairs) of the interior and exterior of the Facility, through the development of a planned and preventative maintenance schedule.
• Responsible for the scheduling maintenance services of planned maintenance activities and ad-hoc scheduling of any repairs required.
• Responsible for the scheduling and maintaining of all equipment and vehicles, through the development of a planned and preventative maintenance schedule.
• Co-ordinating the cleaning, hygiene, landscaping, bird-proofing, and gardening services of outsourced service providers
• Co-ordination and supervision of contractors performing work at the Facility and signing off on job cards after completion.
• Responsible for effective waste management at the Facility and recording of waste volumes.
• Responsible for the scheduling and co-ordination of all statutory audits, inspections, and tests.
• Responsible for full close-out of observations and tasks with reference to facilities management via systems.