Facilities Manager

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POSITION INFO:

Leeu Collection is known for sophisticated escapes and unique guest experiences. Its ever-expanding luxury hospitality portfolio offers dynamic career opportunities to positive, vibrant and energetic individuals.
You will excel in this role if you are an efficient, solution-driven individual, who enjoys fast paced and constantly changing challenges and has a passion for exceptional service whilst maintaining a high degree of operational delivery. The successful candidate must be an experienced Facilities/Maintenance Manager who will be responsible for the overall oversight, planning, functioning and performance of the department, which operates over multiple sites, and includes the people management, strategic planning and reporting that is required for the role.

Requirements for the position:
• Grade 12- Matric Certificate
• Tertiary qualification in Facilities/Maintenance/Engineering or related field beneficial
• Valid Driver’s license
• Local candidates residing in Franschhoek and surrounds would be advantageous

Experience and skills:
• Minimum of 5 years of Facilities/Maintenance Manager experience
• Hotel or property maintenance experience would be advantageous
• Proficient in the use of MS office
• Planning, process excellence and service delivery
• Experience with CAPEX & Operational budgeting
• Experience with preventative maintenance planning and execution
• Focused on quality and attention to detail with innovation ideas to bring about change and results
• Teamwork, cross organisational collaboration and building high performance teams
• Managing a large team

Main Responsibilities:
• Oversee, manage and maintain all areas relating to maintenance, so as to ensure effective hotel operational requirements
• Plan, supervise and conduct the maintenance and service schedules of relevant hotel equipment and fleet of vehicles within the group
• Work closely with the relevant Hotel Managers, Group Operational Manager and Heads of Departments to ensure all maintenance requests are resolved in a timely fashion, with excellent record-keeping and efficient feedback
• Develop a preventative maintenance program that ensures compliance with all relevant warrantees, safety legislation and maintenance best practice
• Ensure the secure and safe usage of all equipment items
• Manage, train, guide and develop the staff in their required skills
• Ensure that malfunctioning equipment is repaired and brought back online in the minimum down-time
• Maintain a thorough stock level of frequently used equipment, supplies and relevant items
• Maintain inspection, stock control and purchasing records
• Obtain best price quotes from reliable suppliers and build a base of approved service providers
• Preparing annual Maintenance budgets, including any purchasing for machinery or other CAPEX items, maintaining existing materials and machinery, and labour
• Ensure, enforce and maintain Health and Safety standards