Job
Description: Facilities Project Manager
Department: Infrastructure
Department: Infrastructure
Reports
to: Infrastructure Team Lead
Company Description: Sanergy is an award - winning social venture, based in Nairobi, Kenya, that makes hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban slums for everyone, forever.
Company Description: Sanergy is an award - winning social venture, based in Nairobi, Kenya, that makes hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban slums for everyone, forever.
We provide critical support services – such as access to finance, training, marketing and business analytics. We collect the waste every day and safely remove it from the community.
We
convert the waste into valuable by-products, such as organic fertilizer and
renewable energy. Finally, we sell the byproducts to Kenyan farms. Since
November 2011, we have launched over 450 Fresh Life Toilets to a network of 250
micro-entrepreneurs.
We
have collected and converted over 3000 tons of waste. At the same time, we have
built a team of 170 people – 90% Kenyan and 60% from informal settlements.
We are
an increasingly sophisticated, highly intricate organization with many moving
parts.
In
order to ensure our facilities and infrastructure consistently reflect the
needs of the organisation including strategic planning of facilities througout
our growth and ensure we constantly achieve operational efficiency, we are
looking to strengthen our facilities team with a strong Facilites Project
Manager.
The
Facilties Team works with the operational teams to forward plan, design,
research and develop facilities projects and improvements that reinforce the
expansion of our sustainable sanitation model.
This
includes, fleet management, security, planned and reactive mantenance,
facilities improvement and capital projects.
Job
Purpose Statement: Sanergy
seeks a dynamic, experienced and imaginative engineering mind to develop innovative
solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our infrastructure.
Role
& Responsibilities:
- Conduct
research, design, test, and project manage the implementation of solutions
to improve critical facilities. Projects will include ensuring effective
equipment productivity, asset maintenance, CAPEX projects management and
product design..
- Maintain
the buildings and grounds of the organization,
- Directing
staff and overseeing the upkeep of equipment and supplies.
- Ensure
the buildings and grounds are maintained, which entails daily and weekly
cleaning schedules as well as determining and scheduling repairs,
renovation projects, waste reduction improvements and safety inspections.
- Ensure
that they adhere to the budget and maintain a good relationship with the
external vendors.
Key
Skill Requirements:
The Facilites Project Manager will need the following qualities:
The Facilites Project Manager will need the following qualities:
- Excellent
analytical skills – data collection, statistics, data modelling,
- Project
design experience
- Project
management experience – how to manage projects, break down problems,
develop methodologies, frameworks and develop implementation plans,
- Human
centred design skills – understanding and working with users, how to get
to the why rather than the what and developing design innovations from
this information;
- Resoundingly
pragmatic and innovative
- Leadership
skills
- The
ability to conceive, design, test, evaluate potential solutions and
implement recommendations;
- Teamwork
- Communications
and presentations skills.
- Attention
to detail
Key areas
of Support:
- Project
managed projects including - monitor adherence to designs, layouts,
specifications and work breakdown structures for facilities upgrade and
new equipment installation projects assigned by the Manager and manage any
challenges in an effective manner.
- Support
monitoring adherence to project schedules and budgets for upgrade and new
equipment installation projects as per timelines and budgets issued by the
Manager
- Assist
in monitoring adherence to Occupational Safety & Health by all facilities
team and all contractors on site.
- Monitor
adherence of the Capital Equipment Maintenance procedure for specific
projects assigned by the Manager
- Maintenance
planning and documentation for all plant machinery
- Assist
with the design of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and One Point
Lessons (OPLs) for various machines and equipment e.g. concrete mixer,
poker vibrator, grinders, jig saw
- Suggest
areas of maintenance costs reduction for facilities and equipment at
Sanergy
- Continuous
evaluation of security systems at Sanergy and suggest areas deemed for
improvement
- Conduct
periodic work planning for staff under area of supervision. Assist in
conducting continuous performance evaluation of the same as well as
guiding staff on areas of improvement
- Ensure
proper bookkeeping of all records by staff under supervision. Assist in
developing timestamp systems to ensure timely recording and updating of
all data
- Work
with the Manager to champion continuous improvement through enforcement of
Kaizen system of management within all facilities at Sanergy
Key
Result Areas:
- Assist
the Facilities Manager in management of specific facilities projects, new
equipment installation projects and equipment maintenance projects within
the set time & cost and to the correct specification.
- Work
with the Facilities Manager to monitor where there might be
complaints from Sanergy staff due to the state of facilities and develop
measures to forestall such occurrences
Educational
& Experience
- Degree
in Engineering or similar.
- Experience
managing projects with multiple stakeholders.