Assistant Manager - Facilities Management

Job description / Role

Building Fun
In a never before seen experience, Dubai Parks and Resorts hosts MOTIONGATE Dubai - a destination that brings visitors in direct contact with their favorite characters and stories. We are inviting everyone to play a part and as a team member of MOTIONGATE Dubai, you'll enjoy all the fun that comes with an exciting career. You'll work with a cast of amazingly talented and inspiring people in a job that's so immersive it hardly feels like work. Come and work with an exciting team where we all play a vital part in the story - whether you choose a role serving the delicious food, to maintaining equipment, performing in costume or operating a ride. Whatever your chosen vocation you will help tell compelling, enduring stories and create memories for our guests that will last a lifetime.

Play Your Part
You are an experienced Technical Supervisor with a solid hands-on mentality and capacity to lead a team of Supervisors & Technicians. Together with your team you will assure the proper maintenance and repair of our Facility. Keep our facility's equipment in a safe and reliable way at all times. You are responsible for managing service and repairs in area of plumbing, carpentry, plastering and machine and electrical servicing. You should be motivating your team and are very communicative towards colleagues from all departments.

Main Duties:

- Maximize operationality for all equipment within the parks
- Ensure that periodic checks and preventive maintenance are completed according the schedule & standards.
- Report and document all works accordingly
- Assist in fault searching and problem solving in case of standstills in order to have the Facility back in operation in a short time
- Be pro-active towards proposing adjustments, ordering spare parts and identifying any problematic equipment.
- Ensure that you and your team are operating safely and have received proper training to perform their duties.
- Managing service and repairs in area of plumbing, carpentry, plastering, machine and electrical servicing
- Calculate and compare costs for utilities, goods and services to maximize cost-effectiveness
- Any other duties as may be reasonably requested by the Management Team

Requirements

Are You a Star?
In order to be qualified for this role you should possess the below criteria:

Essential:

- A registered technical Diploma or Degree from a reliable school
- Certifications of further studies or educational upgrades
- Profound mechanic and/or electric-electronic knowledge
- Understanding/ Managing processes and documentations
- Heavy / Light, vehicle and equipment licenses
- Ability to clearly report and communicate in English in both oral and written form
- Minimum of 10 years relevant working experience in Facility Management, maintenance planning and execution
- Minimum 6 years' experience in leading a Facility Team
- People Management skills
- Problem Solving skills
- Planning and organizational skills
- Customer service orientation
- Positive attitude
- Good PC knowledge, MS Office

Desirable:

- A registered Diploma or Degree in engineering from a reliable school
- Certifications for trainings, participations and licenses, in engineering
- Experience in use of BMS systems
- Work experience in a theme-park environment
- Work experience in a system integration environment
- Electrical / Mechanical worker licenses
- Hydraulics / Pneumatics licenses or certificates of training
- WHSE certifications
- Work at Heights Supervisory Certificates
- Worked as an installer or service provider or maintaining of rides and attractions
- No fear of working at height & confined space
- Flexible working hours
- Physically fit

The Best Part of The Story

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; housing allowance, annual flight allowance, comprehensive medical coverage, life and accident insurance and other generous allowances. We also care about your career development supported by Learning opportunities for those seeking a long-term future in the Company.

About the Company

Dubai Parks and Resorts offers new heights in experiential entertainment through an inspired concept that brings the best of the east and the west in the entertainment industry. Conceived and developed by Meraas Holding, Dubai Parks and Resorts articulates the Dubai leadership’s vision of positioning the emirate as a compelling global tourist destination.

The first phase of Dubai Parks and Resorts will comprise three theme parks: motiongate™ Dubai, Bollywood Parks™ Dubai, and LEGOLAND® Dubai. The development will also feature Riverland - a grand entrance plaza and Lapita, a family themed hotel. The first phase is scheduled for completion in 2016. Ground work commenced on site in February 2014