Facilities Manager at a Hospitality Company - Nicole Sinclair

Nicole Sinclair - Our client, a hospitality company, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Facilities Manager

Location: Lagos

Description

• Will be responsible for the maintenance, upkeep, and functionality of their buildings by conducting proactive and reactive maintenance.
• The Facilities Manager will also ensure that the facilities meet legal requirements and health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and organize all engineering activities.
• Perform quality control checks, ensuring the safety and effectiveness or reliability of the facility equipment
• Organize preventive/corrective maintenance facilities and equipment, critical and non-critical alike.
• Prepare Annual Maintenance Plans
• Notify executive management of any needed changes and deviations in the maintenance plan and get approvals on adjustments that need to be made.
• Prepare maintenance budgets on a monthly basis and ensure there is timely approval to mitigate unneeded breakdown
• Protect and improve the value of the organization’s assets and ensure that buildings, machinery, and systems meet or exceed their expected life cycle.
• Follow and maintain the site-specific preventive maintenance and work order program.
• Coordinate the in-house engineering team for regular repairs of any damaged equipment
• Ensure the availability of an adequate inventory of tools and other supplies to operate the building.
• Organize administrative functions related to site operations, such as work orders and maintenance activities, budgets, ordering supplies, etc.
• Oversee janitorial, cleaning and gardening.
• Conduct proactive, plumbing, carpentering, painting, and swimming pool maintenance works
• Oversee the routine cleaning of sewage systems, ensure the health and safety protocols are observed thoroughly
• Work with the outsourced refuse disposal companies to ensure that all refuse is routinely emptied
• Scheduling both internal and external fumigation of the facilities.
• Supervise the maintenance of all generators.
• Schedule the washing of the diesel tank.
• Prepare comprehensive weekly plans for all scheduled jobs and allocate manpower as required.
• Ensure outsourced projects are properly supervised and signed off as completed.
• Ensure in-house projects are executed in line with approved plans and best practices.
• Monitor usage, servicing, and maintenance of fire extinguishers, firefighting equipment, and alarm systems.
• Train staff on emergency procedures e.g. step by step use of fire extinguishers
• Encourage and foster a team-oriented environment through positive feedback.
• Develop power consumption plans and monitor implementation
• Work closely on all required parties to minimize power outages to the facility
• Explore alternate sources of power

Competency / Skill / Requirements

• University Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical) field a Must; MSc will be an advantage.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Outlook, Word, Excel.
• At least 5 - 8 years of general facilities management experience in a large facility or hotel.
• Between 35-40 years of age.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Must reside around VI and its environs.
• Good communication skills, verbally and in writing
• Able to understand the engineering design and operational aspects of the building systems and equipment.

Application Closing Date
20th November, 2021.