Facility Manager

Position /Title: Facility Manager

Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities

• To ensure that the venue and its facilities are kept in working order and compliant with relevant policies and standards and in the most presentable and efficient condition for business.
• To develop and implement a facility management program including preventive maintenance and life cycle requirements.
• Responsible of managing soft services, such as cleaning and security during event and nonevent days along the event management team.
• To develop and monitor a Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) and Reactive maintenance program.
• To develop the non-event day maintenance schedule and control the operations in conjunction with the events team.
• To maintain records and reports where necessary during event and nonevent days.
• Manage the maintenance contractors in line with Company and Venue policy.
• To manage the Arena maintenance staff and all event workers on event days.
• To promote good working practices and maintaining high levels of production values at all times within the Department.
• To help implement and monitor any new procedures as directed by the Director of Venue operations.
• To brief the FM Company on pre-event days, the daily expectations that may impact the daily routine of any bookings or events.
• Back brief from the FM Company on any work that is scheduled that could have any impact on any bookings or events and update the Director of Venue Operations.
• Review the PPM schedule for any work that may impact any bookings or events for the particular day.
• Review the Corrective Maintenance (CM) schedule for any work that may impact any bookings or events for the particular day.
• Review the Work Order (WO) schedule for any work that may impact any bookings or events for the particular day.
• Liaise with all departments associated with venue operations to ensure all utilities/requests are met for any intended bookings/events.
• To undertake other tasks as reasonably requested by the Director of Venue operations and the General Manager.

Position Skills and Requirements

• A passion for the events industry.
• Experience of working within the Arena and entertainment industry, ideally in a facilities management department.
• Ability to organize, multi-task, prioritize and work under pressure.
• Basic event FM experience.
• Experience of instructing and managing FM teams.
• Knowledge of industry health and safety regulations.
• Preferably basic knowledge of drafting software's. e.g.: AutoCAD, Sketch Pro, Vector works, WYSIWYG.
• Microsoft office package proficiency.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to be resourceful and proactive in dealing with issues that may arise.