Facilities Manager

FirstExcelsia is a firm of highly versatile and renowned Human Resources, Organisational Development and Management consultants with a team of over a hundred employees spread across Nigeria. We have an in-depth understanding of the Nigerian business terrain and we are very passionate about partnering with indigenous organisations to develop glocalised HR solutions, processes and structures required to develop and effectively drive our clients' corporate strategies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Facilities Manager
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The role of a Facility Manager is a vital supporting function of the Operations Program - Facilities and Supplies.
• The Facilities Manager coordinates building repairs and maintenance needs across all the buildings.
• Execute strategies and processes to ensure that renovations and repairs works are completed promptly and cost efficiently across multiple academies, in most cases, simultaneously.
• The overriding goal being to ensure state of the building structures are always maintained and conducive for learning (safe and secure).

Job Description
The deliverables the Facilities Manager is tasked with include:

• New Facilities Takeover - The Development team completes all new buildings, and hands over the completed buildings to Operations for management & maintenance. The facilities management team ensures that new academies are fit for use at handover, ensuring that standards are met.
• Maintenance feedback to the Development team - The Manager will provide vital feedback/lessons learnt form routine maintenance to the Development team, which would support new development project standards.
• Routine Maintenance of the academies - We need to continually ensure our facilities are in good condition and account for both minor and major repairs. The Manager must identify common challenges & problems, and provide efficient and cost-effective solutions, execute strategies promptly.
• Manage & Deploy Vendors - The Manager will be required to manage a database of vendors and service providers across regions/clusters, to ensure vendors are available for deployment on demand.

Person Specification

• Ideal candidates should have experience managing projects, identifying business challenges through data and observation, creating solutions for these issues, and overseeing an operations program.
• They should be proficient analyzing and managing large amounts of data and comfortable working closely with different departments and teams.
• Experience in bringing ideas and programs to scale, working at similar ambitious start-up companies, or building and managing teams across countries is an added plus.
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Masters preferred
• Minimum 3 years work experience required.