Technical Services Manager (Cape Town) at JLL

The Technical Services Manager (TSM) role will involve both day to day facilities coordination and management of multiple ad-hoc projects for the client’s corporate facilities, including critical environments. The local sites set-up brings interesting challenges in Facilities & Real Estate and we are looking for an assertive candidate who can communicate effectively and cross-functionally to understand business needs, problem-solve and deliver facilities solutions that are both high-quality and cost-effective.

What this job involves:

• Establish relationships with client Site Leads, Area and Regional FM managers, business partners such as EHS leads, IT to establish trust and credibility in the delivery of IFM services
• Resolve Hard services FM issues at sites under purview, escalating when needed
• Develop the team’s existing skills and add new competencies to enhance service and drive opportunities for more self-performance
• Drive performance as measured by client’s Key Performance Indicators
• Manage subcontractors and suppliers to deliver goods and services against contracts and expectations
• Managing on site teams including allocating resource, delegating workload, ensuring adherence to best practices etc.
• Drive and promote safety culture within portfolio including subcontractors, suppliers and visitors
• Liaising with the EHS team and assist with any technical issues arising from an incident, near miss, investigation or other circumstances which require an engineering subject matter expert.
• Ensure client satisfaction with delivery of Facility Management services and provide a lead role in monitoring and increasing customer satisfaction.
• Support in the implementation of short and long-term projects for the client as requested.
• Import JLL best practices in the interest of exceeding client goals and expectations
• Gap Analyses full sites PPM schedule against site assets. Report and align with client + drive mitigation.
• Review of as built against design for office area. Report and align with client + drive mitigation.
• Procurement of goods and services for client’s buildings utilizing Jones Lang LaSalle sourcing teams.
• Holding regular meetings with Landlord, ensuring that terms of lease are being provided to client- e.g. external maintenance, central plant management.
• Processing and controlling of invoices and work orders, opening and monitoring budgets in the financial system (Oracle), preparing and updating forecasts.
• Supporting the sites with failures and remediation of engineering items
• Working with the Line Manager and EMEA Engineering Regional Manager, evaluate, propose and implement appropriate tools/processes to support the engineering function and evaluation of best practice compliance.
• Coordinate the appointment of authorised Persons for respective fields (Electrical, confined space etc.)
• Full understanding of Technical budget across region
• Over sight and support for All Operations – providing real support (on-site and remote) to all engineering operations managed by JLL
• Assisting with issue resolutions
• Supporting recruitment activities
• Ensuing role out of consistent operations
• Develop and support a sustainability and sourcing focus, delivering quality, frugal and sustainable solutions for Client.
• Engage and collaborate with EMEA peer group to build consistency of solution/process across all soft services delivered.
• Actively support the EMEA Hard Services Best Practice & Quality Lead in developing standards, processes up and down the hard services organization
• Actively support the EMEA Procurement Lead on Procurement projects, savings paperwork, contract compliance and sustainability initiatives.
• SLA & KPI tracking systems (PPM and Critical PPM compliance measurement)
• Response time to Service Requests within the Client’s severity requirements
• Measure preventative maintenance compliance on a monthly basis for Facility assets
• Measure preventative maintenance compliance on a monthly basis for critical equipment such as MDF, IDF rooms and others
• Compliance with local Health and Safety regulations
• Customer Satisfaction
• Pursue continuous improvement