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DATA CENTRE TECHNICIAN
Bidvest Facilities Management
Sandton, Gauteng
Permanent
 
Closing Date 12 January 2026
 
Job Details
Division: BFM Operations 2
Minimum experience: Mid-Senior
Company primary industry: Facilities Services
Job functional area: Operations
 
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE
To implement and manage an effective maintenance system within customer facilities and ensure SLA delivery. To develop, manage, and maintenance standards for the operations, asset care and maintenance of equipment.

MAIN OUTPUTS
  • Maintain Preventative Maintenance (PM) schedules in accordance to the SLA for all equipment and services.
  • Develop and manage engineering specifications in the region for new assets and the maintenance of existing assets.
  • Complete highly technical maintenance and statutory asset audits and inspections
  • Investigations (RCFA) and submission of failure reports
  • Develop and implement mitigations and recommendations resulting from RCFA completion.
  • Identify maintenance risks on client’s equipment for evaluation and resolution via FRL and risk Notification processes.
  • Projects end-to-end involvement as per request from Project Managers
  • Review and contribute to scopes of work, maintenance strategies, and maintenance tactics.
  • React to major equipment failures as first responder in order to return to service as soon as possible.
  • Manage vendors, suppliers, contractors and OEM’s in order to bring equipment back to services and manage specifications for its operations, maintenance and extension of asset life cycle.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
  • N6/ National Diploma: Mechanical/Electrical or related formal qualification
  • Matric (Senior Certificate)
  • Valid SA Driver's License
  • Electrical/ HVAC Trade Test is a requirement
  • Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) Certificate is a requirement
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant engineering experience in facility maintenance
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering experience
  • 3 years’ experience in a Data Centre environment
  • Engineering maintenance, CRM & Property Management
  • MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project & MS Outlook (Intermediate skill level)
  • SAP knowledge
  • OHS Act, ISO 9001 Quality Management & Risk Management System
 
The right person must have the following competencies: -
  • Initiative/Proactivity
  • Technical knowledge & understanding
  • Deadline Driven & Highly Motivated
  • Stress Tolerant
  • Good Written Communication
  • Basic Supervisory Skills
  • Customer Focus
  • Innovative
  • Problem Analysis
  • Planning/Scheduling/Objective Setting
  • Teamwork & Partnering
  • Relationship Building
  • Interactive Reasoning
 
NB: Correspondence will only be limited to shortlisted candidates.
 
Bidvest FM is committed to the Achievement and Maintenance of Equity in Employment.
 
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ENGINEERING SERVICES MANAGER
Bidvest Facilities Management
Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal
Permanent
 
Closing Date 12 January 2026
 
Job Details
Division: BFM Operations 1
Minimum experience: Mid-Senior
Company primary industry: Facilities Services
Job functional area: Engineering
 
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE
  • Ensure infrastructure services are maintained and operational to service standards specified.
  • Maintain availability of assets and building in accordance to specified standards.
  • Support the planned maintenance programme in order to ensure business continuity incurs minimum downtime.
  • Proactively manage the maintenance process and identify potential equipment / asset failure or problems.
  • Proactively identify assets at end of life or in need to of upgrade for the purposes of consideration for capital investment plans.
  • Investigate plant or equipment failure to establish root cause and recommend corrective actions.
  • Provide recommendations and where necessary oversight to re-active maintenance work to ensure that all work is carried out as per the work order and or specification and that quality standards are maintained
  • Approve proposals for new plant and equipment and provide specifications for the supply and installation in accordance with Barclay’s standards and good engineering practice especially where such standards are not available.
  • Provide Specialist Technical knowledge and expertise to Facilities and Project Managers including supervision where necessary of works executed.
  • Ensure that assets are controlled, operated and to the necessary operational specifications.
  • Provide and undertake the appropriate incident management protocols and procedures in order to mitigate and prevent the client’s business redundancy systems are always in full and correct operations.
  • Undertake, provide and maintain the execution of activities that will provide the necessary assurance of asset and building availability.
  • Engage with and maintain a cordial relationship with the various clients representatives.

MAIN OUTPUTS
  • On time planning and execution of all Planned Maintenance
  • Availability and reliability of regional assets and buildings.
  • Management of breakdowns, planned outages and implementation root cause failure outcomes.
  • Reporting and management of incidents
  • Management and completion of reactive work and requests.
  • Vacancy, employment equity and people development.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
The Applicant must meet the following requirements:
  • Grade 12 (matric) 
  • N6 Diploma in Engineering
  • Certified Data Centre Professional (Advantageous)
  • Code B Driver’s License
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in Electrical or Mechanical engineering
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in Facilities management
  • Strong technical background and have good management and leadership skills
  • Maintenance engineering
  • Physical Asset management
  • Maintenance tactics
  • Occupational Health and Safety act
  • First Line Management
  • Finance for non-financial managers
  • Microsoft Office (advanced), SAP Knowledge
  • General Health & Safety knowledge

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES
  • Good planning and organizational skills
  • Initiative/Proactively
  • Written Communication
  • Stress tolerance
  • Business Acumen
  • Decisiveness
  • Display pursuit of excellence
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Leadership and motivation
  • Etiquette / Courtesy in Business
  • Planning & execution skills
  • Problem Analysis
  • Demonstrate independence
  • Relationship Building
  • Listening
  • Team work
  • Good interpersonal skills
 
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​PHYSICAL ASSET MANAGER
Bidvest Facilities Management
Johannesburg South, Gauteng
Permanent
 
Closing Date 12 January 2026
 
Job Details
Division: BFM Operations 1
Minimum experience: Mid-Senior
Company primary industry: Facilities Services
Job functional area: Engineering
 
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE
Responsible for overseeing the lifecycle of an organization's physical assets, ensuring they are efficiently maintained, utilized, and optimized to support business operations.

MAIN OUTPUTS
  • Create and maintain regional asset register.
  • Develop and maintain maintenance strategies for assets in region.
  • Develop and maintain maintenance plans, scopes of work and condition records for assets in region.
  • Continuously improve monitoring of assets
  • Continuously improve asset life cycle
  • Consolidate planned and unplanned maintenance in region including processing of changes.
  • Feed asset lifecycle considerations into the development of capital investment plans
  • Completion of root cause failure analysis and development of mitigations against asset failures
  • Report on the status of assets and asset care on a regular basis.
  • Responsible duties in maintenance Engineering delegated from time-to-time.
  • Develop and maintain high efficiency maintenance plans for the above assets in order to increase asset life cycle at the most efficient cost.
  • Supervise the coordination and communication of critical maintenance within the region.
  • Provide support in capturing and maintenance of data on the Capacity Management Database and FRL Life Cycle Calculator.
  • Custodian of tactics and maintenance strategies for all engineering assets in the region.
  • Develop and maintain high integrity SAP Master Database for the structure build in the region.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
The Applicant must meet the following requirements:
  • B-Tech (Engineering) / BSc (Engineering) /. BEng Electrical or Mechanical
  • Candidate PrEng /. Candidate PrTech
  • Candidate GCC Factories will be an advantage
  • Grade 12
  • Code B Driver’s License
  • Minimum 8 years’ experience in Maintenance engineering (specifically managing assets)
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience must be in Facilities management
  • Maintenance engineering
  • Physical Asset management
  • Maintenance tactics
  • Occupational Health and Safety act
  • Microsoft Office (Intermediate)
  • SAP Knowledge
  • General Health & Safety knowledge
 

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES
  • Good planning and organizational skills
  • Initiative/Proactively
  • Written Communication
  • Stress tolerance
  • Business Acumen
  • Decisiveness
  • Display pursuit of excellence
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Etiquette / Courtesy in Business
  • Planning & execution skills
  • Problem Analysis
  • Demonstrate independence
  • Relationship Building
  • Listening
  • Team work
  • Good interpersonal skills
 
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​OPERATIONS MANAGER
Bidvest Facilities Management
Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal
Permanent
 
Closing Date 12 January 2026
 
Job Details
Division: BFM Operations 1
Minimum experience: Mid-Senior
Company primary industry: Facilities Services
Job functional area: Operations
 
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE
To implement and manage an integrated Facilities Management solution for Clients within the region of responsibility in accordance with the SLA.


MAIN OUTPUTS
  • Responsible for driving integrated Facilities Management (FM) services and strategy for the Client
  • Ensure delivery of efficient FM service as outlined in the Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • Implementation of an effective HSE, Quality & Risk Management system in conjunction with the Contracts Manager, and in accordance to Client needs
  • Conduct daily audits on FM services rendered and ensure that prescribed work quality and standards are sustained
  • Ensure timeous sign-off and variance explanations on P&L's
  • Identify gaps and deficiencies in services, advise and effect solutions as part of Continuous Improvement on FM services rendered
  • Manage back to back SLA agreements with suppliers and contractors
  • Monitor service providers’ (contractors) performance and effect corrective action on any deviations to the SLA
  • Assist in the management of FM projects and provide technical support, where applicable
  • Demonstrate and instil effective adherence to processes on infrastructure maintenance
  • Explore and recommend innovative methods, based on best practices, in order to bring about cost-effective solutions
  • Ensure timeous processing of invoices
  • Provide monthly reports and feedback on continued compliance to the SLA
  • Building strategic relationships both internally and externally
  • Manage staff performance & facilitate improvement through regularly monitoring performance & providing required coaching, support & feedback
  • Manage performance & conflicts within subordinate employees & effect corrective actions, in line with company policies/procedure
  • Ensure adequate staff placement i.e. prepare suitable shift-roster where applicable and manage/approve applicable leave for subordinate employees
  • Responsible for training, coaching, mentoring & development of subordinate employees

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS / KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

The Applicant must meet the following requirements:
  • National Diploma/Degree: Facilities Management, Property Management, Project Management, Operations Management or related FM formal qualification
  • Matric (Senior Certificate)
  • Valid SA Drivers License
  • 8yrs relevant experience in Facilities Management, CRM, Property Management & Financial Management
  • Facilities Management, CRM, Property Management & Financial Management
  • MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project & MS Outlook (Intermediate skill level), SAP knowledge
  • Knowledge of OHS Act, ISO 9001 Quality Management, Risk Management Systems, Property Law & Contractual Law

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES
  • Initiative/Proactivity
  • Deadline Driven & Highly Motivated
  • Stress Tolerant
  • Excellent Written Communication
  • Supervisory Skills
  • Subordinates Capacity Building
  • Customer Focus
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Analytical Skills
  • Planning/Scheduling/Objective Setting
  • Teamwork & Partnering
  • Relationship Building
  • Interactive Reasoning
  • Excellent Oral Communication

PLEASE APPLY HERE