Facilities Project Manager (Jobs in Kenya, October 2014)

Title: Facilities Project Manager

  Department: Headquarters – Nairobi, Kenya
Reports to: Facilities Manager

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. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high-quality waterless sanitation facilities – called Fresh Life – as small businesses. 

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.

Role & Responsibilities:
 
Sanergy seeks a dynamic, experienced and imaginative engineering mind to develop innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our infrastructure. 
You will 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. 
You will need to be flecxible and adaptable to an ever changing business. You could be working on a major CAPEX project one minute and arranging the repair of a socket the next. 
This work will have a significant impact on the growth of Sanergy, not just from a day-to-day perspective, but also in terms of environmental, social and economic impact for residents of informal settlements.

Key areas of Support:

• Project manage 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 general management of facilities at Sanergy to ensure that they are in a clean and safe state

• 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 Skill Requirements: 
The Facilities Project Manager will need the following qualities:

• Degree in Engineering

• Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders.

• 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;

• Hold a continuous, restless desire to improve yourself, your project teams, and your organization;

• The ability to conceive, design, test, evaluate potential solutions and implement recommendations;

• A collaborative mentality and deep-rooted empathy and humility;

• Powerful communications skills - particularly in presenting ideas.

More qualitatively, we are looking for people who have the desire to take on a whole new challenge in a whole new context, a tenacity and drive to keep going in the face of frustrations and set-backs inevitable in working in a developing country and in a new and exciting sector. 
We believe that we are on the cusp of transformative change and we seek people who believe their skills will deliver that transformation. 
We welcome your application-cover letter and CV-onhttp://www.jobscore.com/jobs/sanergy/list


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 farmers.

Categories: ENGINEERING