Health, safety & maintenance manager

  • Full-Time
  • Dubai, UAE

About the Role
You are responsible for maintaining the IKEA Store and to keep facilities in a safe operating condition, maintaining a preventative maintenance program and resolving immediate operational and/or safety concerns.  You support the CRM department, ensuring that customers are provided with the highest possible service level (in line with IKEA standards) to achieve the pre-defined yearly sales targets. You conduct all business in accordance with company policies and procedures.
 
Key Specific Accountabilities:
Operational

  • Initiate proactive HSE measures to ensure customer and co-worker safety in the store.
  • Secure that the security demands of Al Futtaim, IKEA, local legal rules and demands put up by the insurance companies are achieved via a systematic security procedures.
  • Implement waste management and cost saving initiatives, whilst maintaining IKEA’s market reputation for sustainability.
  • Responsible for maintenance of technical areas including all LV/HV rooms, DB’s & SMDB’s, FAHU, HVAC, AHU, UPS, FCU, VFD systems, Appliances, travellators, escalators & elevators, Phone systems, PA systems, Fire prevention, sprinkler systems & fire alarm, BMS system, and attenuation tanks, storm drains & drainage systems.
  • Negotiate with third party suppliers and contractors ratifying contracts for CCTV, cleaning, security and safety related products.
  • Ensure Store Emergency Drills are carried out.
  • Manage Annual Maintenance Calendar.
  • Support the Duty Manager training for Crisis Management.

Financial

  • Gain knowledge of inventory levels of all maintenance consumables, personal protective equipment and spare parts and replenish when necessary.
  • Review and monitor daily and monthly KPIs and analyse reports on various measurable factors against benchmarked figures (i.e. manpower productivity, etc). Working with the team to create meaningful actions to achieve agreed goals
  • Control costs through working in a lean, simple, cost-conscious way using good examples and solutions, and encouraging the team and colleagues to discover more effective ways of working.

People Management and Development

  • Conduct assessments of co-workers HSE competence and act accordingly based on the results.
  • Manpower planning. Prepare plans, set productivities and supervise the maintenance team to ensure highest levels of work efficiency within the budgeted productivities, motivation and control all the budgeted cost.
  • Scheduling for the maintenance department. Create and submit a schedule for the maintenance department based on the coverage needed for peak and non peak sales day. Plan annual leave for the department based on the commercial calendar.
  • Conduct Performance development reviews and develop/create action plans based on the outcomes for the HSM team