Assistant Facility Manager

Job Overview

The Assistant Facilities Manager plays a key role in supporting the Contract Manager to ensure the smooth operation, safety, and efficiency of building systems and services. This position oversees maintenance teams across various trade disciplines, ensuring daily engineering tasks (such as preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, and system inspections) are carried out effectively. The role is accountable for maintaining operational reliability, enforcing safety compliance, and driving continuous improvement in service delivery, while also ensuring high-quality outcomes for clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health, safety, legislative, and QEHS (Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety) standards.

• Directed multidisciplinary facilities maintenance teams across electrical, mechanical, civil, electronics, and ACMV disciplines, ensuring alignment with client expectations, KPIs, and contractual obligations to deliver consistent operational excellence

• Prioritized work orders to minimize downtime and ensure service continuity by managing daily maintenance operations, overseeing fault reporting, and coordinating resources effectively.

• Monitored facilities, equipment, and asset performance by conducting regular building inspections and site audits, implementing improvement measures to enhance reliability and efficiency.

• Attend client and service partner meetings, ensuring service agreements are delivered with satisfaction.

• Foster positive relationships with clients, end users, and key stakeholders.

• Strategize, plan, and implement business processes aligned with operational requirements.

• Collaborated with clients to identify opportunities for facility enhancements and new revenue streams, while attending client and service partner meetings to ensure service agreements were delivered with satisfaction

• Identify competency gaps, provide targeted training, and support strategic development and progression plans to strengthen team capabilities and future readiness

• Manage local site maintenance budgets, exercising cost control and monitoring profitability (P&L familiarity advantageous).

• Act as Duty Manager during incidents or emergencies, developing and implementing crisis and fire safety management plans.

• Continuously seek opportunities to enhance team structure, shift planning, and operational support for hospital services.

Job Requirement

• Minimum of 3–4 years of relevant experience in facilities management or engineering.

• Degree in Engineering (Electrical / Mechanical) required.

• Experienced in retrofitting, A&A works, building maintenance practices, and safety procedures.

• Proactive, able to work with minimal supervision, and perform effectively under pressure.