Job closed
Ref: LP528-81
Job description / Role
This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious Operations Manager with a facilities management and engineering background to establish and grow an emerging business in Jeddah. The business has quickly grown as part of a major well funded group involved in an exciting range of multi-use developments, education, sport and leisure and facilities management.
This is a role to drive best quality processes and the business development of this emerging business. Key responsibilities include:
Ensuring the FM managers are delivering to the customer principles and practices of facilities operations, maintenance, and management. Review and enhance best practice FM services across all existing clients.
Assist the Facilities Managers in decision making if requested and solving problems by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions at minimum cost.
Ensure that best practice and improvement initiatives are effectively shared and communicated through all facilities managers.
Carry out regular reviews of contract performance against budget and plans. Review, implement and evaluate remedial action.
Develop and maintain a continuous improvement mindset to service delivery that generates added value to the business. Continuously review key performance indicators (KPI's), best practice, and review benchmarks.
Allocate manpower and planning for the Projects, determining workload, delegating assignments, and training, monitoring and evaluating performance.
Develop and implement a training program for all staff.
Investigate and define problem areas within the Project sites, conduct occasional site tours and prepare reports recommending measures for improving our service to the customer.
Carry out any corrective or disciplinary actions.
Develop a strategic growth plan with agreed operational budgets with the board including a business development strategy to maximize both internal opportunities across the group and external FM opportunities in the market.
Present in conjunction with the Group CFO reports for the board identifying performance against targets and recommendations for performance improvement across the business.
Coordinate and run weekly meetings with key FMs and operational management to discuss progress against targets and ongoing issues and priorities.
Completion of annual appraisals of Facilities Managers and Project staff ensuring that they receive guidance, support and recognition of their development needs through regular appraisals, reviews, and personal development plans.
Requirements
Preferable candidates with extensive engineering and facilities management background.
Degree in Mechanical Engineering would be ideal.
Minimum 3 years facilities management experience within the Gulf region.
About the Company
Transguard Themis is the recruitment and professional staffing brand of the Transguard Group based in Dubai, UAE.
Utilising the years of experience of the Transguard group in providing outsourced services to clients, TG Themis specialises in the provision of contract, interim and outsourced staffing solutions to the professional labour market. Our clients use our services for three key reasons:
To provide flexible, short term or fixed term contract staffing solutions through periods of increased demand or seasonal peak workloads.
To manage the recruitment and staffing of non-core business areas for clients.
To provide Permanent staffing solutions to clients via direct hire or contract to direct hire. A try before you buy scheme for employers and employees.