Facilities Management Director

Managerial requisites

• Strong team leadership mentality with a customer focus mindset
• P&L and budget management experience
• Managing multi layered department and assessing performance at all levels of department
• Must be able to build and adhere to budgets at departmental and client level
• Ability to study tenders and support proposal development
• Maintain relationships with maintenance support vendors
• Highly organised, target setting, structuring work streams,
• Building long term relationships
• Fluent Arabic, strong command of English
• Typical candidate background is from FM service provider, hotel industry, industrial with background managing full building services
• The company prides itself on integrity, transparency and humility. The candidate must strongly embody these values

Technical requisites

• 15-years’ experience in either technical (“hard”) FM or MEP installation, start-up and O&M
• Experience should be specific to vertical real estate (malls, factories, hospitals, airports, etc)
• Experience of planning and managing complex and integrated facilities management programs including hard and soft service outputs
• Has first-hand experience of studying new opportunities
• Fluency with building design and shop floor drawings, construction submittals and cost control
• Fluency with construction management of small projects
• Has substantial and direct experience working with ERP
• Has direct experience executing service through CMMS and using it for business improvement
• Preferably has an expertise in light current, automation and control
• Good knowledge of health and safety in FM especially MEP maintenance
• Has strong track record of overseeing and managing renovations and fit-out works including understanding the associated requirements for cost control, budgeting and scheduling