American University of Bahrain Hiring for Facilities and Commercial Services Assistant Manager Job at Ar Rifā` Full Time

AUBH seeks an energetic, creative, hard-working, and collaborative individual to serve as a Facilities and Commercial Services Assistant Manager. The primary role of this position is to:

• Manage the campus improvement projects, from the design phase to the handover.
• Manage the campus space utilization and make sure it is efficiently occupied.
• Support the director of facilities in overseeing the campus commercial services such as the canteen, café, campus shop, and vending machines.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Develop facilities improvement and modification project plans based on stakeholders’ needs.
• Prepare projects’ scope of work and contribute to the technical input in the RFPs.
• Plan and supervise projects’ activities and deliver upon the agreed time and quality.
• control campus engineering drawings and maintain an updated version of as-built drawings.
• Ensure that the necessary health, safety, and environment official requirement are met for campus facilities.
• Develop and maintain a facility utilization master plan.
• Assist the department in office allocation.
• Measure office space utilization.
• Plan future office space requirements.
• Keep a registry of office space assets.
• Assess the current utilization of academic classrooms and labs.
• Assess the future requirement of academic classrooms and labs.
• Study and continually suggest improvements to maximize the offices and academic facilities utilization.
• Oversee and improve facilities booking system.
• Monitor the commercial services quality and continual improvement of the services process.
• Manage the commercial services vendors’ and suppliers’ contracts and relations.
• Receive and evaluate stakeholders’ comments, suggestions, and complaints and prepare an improvement plan.
• Capture and evaluate the new campus commercial opportunities.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience required:

• Engineering bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Architecture.
• At least three years of full-time professional experience, preferably in facilities management, construction, or engineering firms.
• One year of experience or strong knowledge in commercial services or business.

Skills and Competencies required:

• Ability to proactively work collaboratively with various vendors and suppliers.
• Ability to work independently with minimum direction and adherence to deadlines while handling multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Commitment to the highest standards of accuracy, attention to detail, and handling of confidential information
• Basic knowledge of business retails and F&B operations.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to use engineering drawing software such as AutoCAD.
• Knowledge and experience of various software, specifically Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint.