Department Manager - Facility Management

THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Manage the maintenance team to ensure site infrastructure and equipment is maintained safely, efficiently and to legal requirements, in addition to leading and managing capital projects

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. To promote health and safety awareness within the maintenance team and contractors, ensuring compliance with all Makro guidelines
2. Ensure all Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) is completed safely, cost effectively, on time and to a satisfactory standard.
3. Lead and manage CAPEX projects; ensuring projects are delivered safety, to the correct quality, on-time and budget.
4. Provide a service that ensures all mechanical and electrical equipment is running to its optimum performance and that all department SLA’s and KPI’s are met
5. Maximize availability of all mechanical and electrical equipment through continuous improvement
6. To manage and liaise with contractors and external suppliers, clearly communicating Makro technical and contractual standards.
7. Ensure adequate resources, equipment and people, are in place to meet operational 
   requirements, including scheduling of shift patterns and purchasing of equipment.
8. Keeps updated of new international and national facility standards and implement where appropriate
9. Provides training and development tools to continuously improve the capability of the team.
10. Ensure the continued professional development of your area of responsibility investigation team. To include the identification of suitable individuals in longer-team succession planning.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience in managing facility maintenance in a large facility
• Proven leadership skills
• Proven analytical troubleshooting and problem solution skills
• Good Command of English and PC Literate
• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills, with ability to clearly articulate ideas and proposals to all levels of the organisation
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure organization
• Ability to work with all levels of management with demonstrated ability to develop and motivate and influence others – both up and down the organization
• Able to work flexible hours with an open minded and positive attitude
• Enjoy working as part of a committed, flexible team, and taking pride in everything you do
• Able to work under pressure with tight deadlines and be available after normal business hours to get the job done.