Engineering

Maintenance

Virgin Active South Africa

Location
Western Cape
Closing date

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In brief

**Overview** This Maintenance role at Virgin Active South Africa is focused on ensuring the optimal state of repair and preventative maintenance for club equipment and facilities. The successful candidate will manage maintenance action plans and projects to required standards, ensure maintenance plans and suppliers operate within budget, and lead a maintenance team to achieve desired results. **What you will do** As a Maintenance professional, your core responsibilities will include: * **Managing Preventative Maintenance and State of Repair:** Overseeing the maintenance and repair of plant equipment (including HVAC), premises, and gym equipment. This involves hands-on fault finding and repair, following preventative schedules, using internal logging systems, adhering to downtime stipulations, and liaising with contractors and landlords. * **Club Inspections and Task Management:** Conducting daily visual inspections, checking various logbooks and checklists (e.g., job book, MOD, fitness, pool), actioning tasks according to brand standards (RAP sheet), following up on maintenance issues, and scheduling preventative maintenance tasks. * **Pool Maintenance:** Ensuring all aspects of pool maintenance are completed, including checking and recording key readings, inspecting weirs, dosing, backwashing, and maintaining the pool internal and external to brand standards, while ensuring temperatures are displayed and dosing systems do not run dry. * **Health & Safety Management:** Managing your department to comply with health and safety requirements and familiarizing yourself with the OSH Act. * **Project and Brand Standard Management:** Assisting in maintaining brand standards through regular checks, developing and managing RAP (Risk Assessment Programme or similar Action Plan), and managing projects to conclusion. This includes ensuring compliance to job specifications, managing contractors to adhere to health and safety standards, liaising with relevant parties, signing off job cards, and following up on snag lists. * **Budget and Supplier Management:** Ensuring club maintenance operates within budget by liaising with the Club General Manager (CGM) and managing all repair costs and quotes. Controlling stock levels, utilizing e-procurement systems with preferred suppliers, and ensuring quality and delivery of orders. * **Team Leadership:** Managing the maintenance team to achieve scheduled tasks, prioritizing and setting timelines, adhering to quality control, following up on completed tasks, establishing understanding of tasks and correct tool application, and distributing tasks equitably. This also includes managing the staffing compliment, ensuring adequate training, communicating company initiatives, managing shift rosters and leave cycles, inducting staff, and developing succession plans. * **Miscellaneous:** Being available for call-outs or telephonic assistance and complying with any lawful and reasonable requests from management. **Requirements (from the original advert)** Not specified **Who should apply** This role is suited for an experienced and hands-on maintenance professional with strong leadership and management skills. The ideal candidate will be proficient in managing the repair and preventative maintenance of various facility components, including plant, premises, gym equipment, and pools. They should have a proven ability to manage projects, control budgets related to maintenance and stock, and effectively lead and develop a maintenance team. Familiarity with health and safety regulations (specifically the OSH Act) and the ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders are essential. The role also requires availability for call-outs. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/maintenance-virgin-active-south-africa Source: myjobmag

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Job description

Your Purpose... * Managing the preventative maintenance and state of repair to equipment and facilities * Managing action plans/projects to the required standard. * Managing maintenance plans & suppliers to within budget. * Managing the maintenance team to achieve desired results Your Duties and Responsibilities... MANAGING THE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND STATE OF REPAIR TO EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES Maintain and repair plant * Follow preventative schedule for HVAC * Communicate faults and action plans to CGM/Ops and Regional MM * Use maintenance log in system on intranet for faults * Adhere to downtime as stipulated on intranet * Be hands on and repair faults where possible Maintain and repair premises * Liaise with landlord/contractors on issues/repairs * Be hands on and repair and maintain where possible according to brand standards. Maintain and repair gym equipment * Complete and fax/email downtime reports to relevant contractors. * Ensure completion of preventative maintenance as per contractor stipulations * Maintain a history of equipment maintenance and preventative schedules * Be hands on, repair and maintain equipment according to brand standards Inspect club to establish daily maintenance tasks * Do visual inspection via walkabout. * Check job book, MOD checklists and fitness checklists. * Check pool and enter results on pool log. * Action tasks as per brand standards RAP sheet. * Follow up all maintenance related issues on the Hey Manager cards. * Schedule tasks from preventative maintenance schedule. * Liaise with CGM/Ops Manager on affects to operations in club. Ensure pool maintenance completed. * Ensure pool checked and pool key readings recorded according to operating standards. * Ensure inspection of weirs conducted. * Ensure pool dosed according to readings. * Ensure backwashing falls within pressure parameters. * Ensure pool internal and external maintained and repaired to brand standards. * Ensure temperatures displayed. * Liaise with Ops/CGM and RMM as required. * Ensure dosing systems do not run dry  Manage health & safety requirements in the club * Manage your department to work within the health & safety requirements. * Familiarise yourself with the OSH Act. MANAGING ACTION PLANS/PROJECTS TO THE REQUIRED STANDARD Assist in ensuring that brand standards are maintained * Conduct regular brand standard checks. * Assist in developing RAP. * Assist GM/Ops to manage the RAP to conclusion. Manage projects to conclusion * Ensure compliance to job specs. * Ensure work areas left in condition found. * Manage contractor to adhere to health and safety standards. * Liaise with relevant parties. * Sign off contractors job card on completion if satisfactory and quality checked. * Follow up on snag lists. * Refer snags/issues to Regional Maintenance Manager. MANAGING MAINTENANCE PLANS & SUPPLIERS TO WITHIN BUDGET Ensure maintenance of Club is within budget. * Liaise with CGM on budget constraints/availability. * Ensure all repairs/costs/quotes to within budget. Control and maintain stock levels * Ensure there is sufficient stock available at all times. * Follow e-procurement system with the assistance from CGM/Ops using preferred suppliers and authorisation systems. * Check quality and delivery of orders. * Ensure stock control systems in place. MANAGING THE MAINTENANCE TEAM TO ACHIEVE DESIRED RESULTS Manage team to achieve scheduled tasks * Priorities and set timelines for team with tasks. * Adhere to quality control standards. * Follow up and check completed tasks. * Establish understanding of task and correct tool application. * Distribute tasks equitably in team including tasks to yourself. Manage staffing compliment * Ensure staff adequately trained to deliver on functional/operational needs. * Ensure communication on all company initiatives/launches. * Manage shift rosters/leave cycles. * Induct staff on operational needs * Have a succession plan. MISCELLANEOUS * Be available for call outs/ telephonic assistance. * Assist and comply with any lawful and reasonable requests from manager.

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