Facility Maintenance Manager at ECWA Hospital, Egbe

ECWA Hospital, Egbe, a division of ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All), is a rural teaching hospital established in 1952 and located in Egbe, Kogi State, Nigeria. The hospital serves a 100-mile radius of villages and small towns in a poor area. It is a 110-bed hospital on a 32-acre complex that includes 5 wards for patients, 3 Operating rooms, a Maternity ward, an Under-fives clinic, an Eye care center, an HIV/AIDs counseling center, a Physiotherapy clinic, and a dental clinic. The hospital runs a 24-hour emergency and intensive care unit. The hospital has an X-ray department with digital radiology including portable X-ray, outpatient and bedside ultrasound services, electrocardiography, gastroscopy, and HSG.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Facility Maintenance Manager

Location: Kogi 

Job Description

• The Maintenance Manager will primarily mentor a national Maintenance Manager for the hospital and nursing college. 
• This will involve overseeing the operation, leadership, staff recruitment, and management of the maintenance department to support the maintenance of the hospital and college’s land, buildings, infrastructure, facilities, water, reservoir, and electrical systems, equipment, and vehicles, and the maintenance of the residential homes and recreation areas located on the hospital campus.
• The Maintenance Manager will ensure that maintenance strategies and schedules are implemented, ensure accurate record-keeping and inventory management, and liaise with vendors on parts acquisitions. He will oversee the development and mentorship of national staff, to ensure performance evaluation, training, and spiritual development.
• The goal is to ensure the national maintenance manager can take over this role when ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit and mentor a Nigerian Maintenance Manager for ECWA Hospital Egbe
• Provide leadership and management training as opportunities arise in these different disciplines: grounds keeping, building maintenance, medical equipment, vehicle and generator maintenance, carpentry, welding, electrical, plumbing, drivers.
• Give guidance and implement best practices and systems to instill a maintenance mindset with proactive upkeep of logs and scheduled maintenance.
• Ensure adequate safety systems are in place
• Ensure the resource of electricity and water are monitored and managed and maintained well
• Responsible for the biomedical portfolio – managing biomed staff, overseeing maintenance of all medical equipment, and inventory of parts and accessories.
• Responsible for the accuracy and safekeeping of the inventory, tools, construction equipment and vehicles
• Provide leadership in record keeping, ordering materials, tracking inventory , financial budget accountability
• Liaise with vendors and overseas suppliers to source parts and equipment; ensuring that records on parts are maintained for future reference
• Support development of policy manuals for the maintenance and security departments
• Responsible for handling personnel issues in the department, fostering an environment of teamwork and accountability
• Encourage the spiritual development of mainteance team.
• Continuously build learning, teaching, and leadership skills within the maintenance and security staff to promote long term sustainability
• Work closely with the Construction Manager to manage shared personnel and resources.

Qualifications / Experience

• Some experience in a variety of gas and diesel engines. There are numerous generators, vehicles, motorcycles, lawn mowers, small engines to maintain along with hospital equipment that may need trouble shooting in order to repair.
• Maintenance mindset with ability to develop and support scheduled maintenance practices to keep everything working on the compound
• Broad experience in plumbing,  water systems
• Good working knowledge of generators, electrical wiring, installation and maintenance, battery back up systems and solar power
• Experience in maintaining vehicles, troubleshooting and repair
• Passion to provide team leadership to Nigerian workshop staff
• Ability to lead devotions and give spiritual guidance to co-workers.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Resume and Cover Letter to: lruiz@egbemission.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
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