148 Facilities Director jobs in the United Arab Emirates

We are currently seeking a seasoned Maintenance Operations Director to oversee all installation, repair and upkeep operations of our facilities and equipment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing maintenance strategies, managing teams, ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental regulations, and minimizing equipment downtime to support continuous operations.

• Oversee the development and implementation of maintenance schedules to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Lead and manage a team of technicians, electricians, and maintenance staff to achieve optimal results.
• Maintain efficient operation of mechanical, electrical, and HVAC systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of maintenance experience with at least 2 years in a supervisory or management role.
• Strong knowledge of building systems, electrical and mechanical equipment, and safety regulations.
• Hands-on experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and maintenance scheduling.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

• The opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment with a dynamic team.
• A competitive salary and benefits package.

This is a key leadership role overseeing all aspects of facilities operations.

• Develop and implement strategic plans to improve operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and service delivery.
• Lead a team of professionals in managing daily operations, including maintenance, repairs, and renovations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize business needs, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction through proactive issue resolution and effective communication.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and company policies.
• Manage budgets, resources, and supplier relationships to optimize cost-effectiveness and value for money.

• Bachelor's degree in facilities management, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years of management experience in facilities operations, preferably with technical complex sites.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop staff.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team, with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
• A dynamic and supportive work environment.

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and may be subject to change. The company reserves the right to amend or withdraw the job at any time without prior notice.

Our client is a large project directly involved with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 strategy. This is an opportunity to join a groundbreaking project with a focus on luxury and hospitality and the further development of a large scale project.

Key Responsibilities :

• Leadership and Management :
  
  • Lead and manage the hotel's engineering and maintenance team, providing direction, mentorship, and training to ensure high-performance standards.
  • Develop and implement maintenance schedules for all hotel systems, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire safety, and building infrastructure.
  • Oversee the daily operations of all engineering and maintenance functions, ensuring minimal disruption to guest services and operations.
• Facilities Operations :
  
  • Monitor and manage all preventive maintenance programs for hotel facilities, including guest rooms, public areas, and back-of-house spaces.
  • Coordinate and manage the upkeep of the hotel's physical assets, including the building, equipment, and grounds.
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations, ensuring a safe working environment for staff and guests.
• Budget and Cost Control :
  
  • Develop and manage the annual engineering and maintenance budget, ensuring effective cost control and resource management.
  • Source and oversee contractors and vendors for specialized maintenance projects, ensuring competitive pricing and high-quality work.
  • Track expenses and identify opportunities for cost-saving initiatives without compromising the quality of service.
• Project Management :
  
  • Plan, coordinate, and supervise major capital projects and facility upgrades, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and in accordance with hotel standards.
  • Collaborate with other departments to align maintenance and engineering efforts with hotel operations and guest satisfaction goals.

The successful candidate will have experience in managing the facilities of a hotel and to be based on-site at the project. Strong exposure to maintenance activities and managing the department and related teams. Experience in setting up processes and procedures as it relates to the department goals.

Our client is a large project directly involved with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 strategy. This is an opportunity to join a groundbreaking project with a focus on luxury and hospitality and the further development of a large scale project.

Key Responsibilities:

• 
  Leadership and Management:
  
  • 
    Lead and manage the hotel's engineering and maintenance team, providing direction, mentorship, and training to ensure high-performance standards.
  • 
    Develop and implement maintenance schedules for all hotel systems, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire safety, and building infrastructure.
  • 
    Oversee the daily operations of all engineering and maintenance functions, ensuring minimal disruption to guest services and operations.
• 
  Facilities Operations:
  
  • 
    Monitor and manage all preventive maintenance programs for hotel facilities, including guest rooms, public areas, and back-of-house spaces.
  • 
    Coordinate and manage the upkeep of the hotel's physical assets, including the building, equipment, and grounds.
  • 
    Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations, ensuring a safe working environment for staff and guests.
• 
  Budget and Cost Control:
  
  • 
    Develop and manage the annual engineering and maintenance budget, ensuring effective cost control and resource management.
  • 
    Source and oversee contractors and vendors for specialized maintenance projects, ensuring competitive pricing and high-quality work.
  • 
    Track expenses and identify opportunities for cost-saving initiatives without compromising the quality of service.
• 
  Project Management:
  
  • 
    Plan, coordinate, and supervise major capital projects and facility upgrades, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and in accordance with hotel standards.
  • 
    Collaborate with other departments to align maintenance and engineering efforts with hotel operations and guest satisfaction goals.

The successful candidate will have experience in managing the facilities of a hotel and to be based on-site at the project. Strong exposure to maintenance activities and managing the department and related teams. Experience in setting up processes and procedures as it relates to the department goals.

We are seeking a highly skilled Building Management System (BMS) Operator to join our team. As a BMS Operator, you will be responsible for the daily maintenance operations and management of the BMS system at our facility.

You will supervise subcontractors to ensure compliance with performance work statements and maintain infrastructure and utilities in the facility through inspections and preventive/corrective maintenance.

The ideal candidate will have experience with monitoring and maintaining BMS systems, including HVAC, Lighting, Security, Fire alarm, firefighting systems, power distribution panels, Power Generation, CCTV, and other technical facilities.

Additionally, you will perform routine checks and upgrades on services provided by manufacturers to ensure optimal functioning of the BMS system.

You will troubleshoot faults and develop repair solutions, adjust settings and parameters to meet changing conditions, inspect, maintain, and supervise repairs of HVAC, Power Generation, Low-Voltage Electrical Switchgear, and CCTV systems.

You will also record maintenance data and generate reports as needed, escort subcontractors to conduct PMCS and repairs of critical system equipment, and maintain documentation for all malfunctions, repairs, maintenance, or changes to systems and/or equipment.

Finally, you will provide reports on life safety, quality, and maintenance issues, ensuring the smooth operation of our facility.

To succeed in this role, you will require:

• A diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering or HVAC;
• Ability to read schematic diagrams, single-line diagrams, and rough shop drawings;
• Thorough knowledge of safety procedures, legal regulations, and guidelines;
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication and organizational skills;

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, with opportunities for professional growth and development.

You will work in a secure, access-controlled, and climate-controlled structure, with potential exposure to extreme temperatures.

BMS operator

Job Brief

Manage daily maintenance operations and operate the Building Management System (BMS) at the Main Communications Facility (MCF) in support of the UAE Base Operations & Security Support Services.

The BMS Operator provides supervision of subcontractors to ensure compliance with the performance work statement (PWS) for operation and maintenance of infrastructure and utilities in the MCF through inspections and preventive/corrective maintenance. Concurrent duties include managing the BMS, responding to alarms, notifying appropriate management personnel, the Experienced operator to undertake a variety of tasks relating the whole building facilities to work in a high efficiency by keeping close monitoring, reading the parameters, analyze and act according to the B.M.S indication and maintaining the climate conditions inside the building.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Operates and maintains BMS for proper function and monitors against approved benchmarks to include: HVAC, Lighting, Security, Fire alarm, firefighting system (including the Nitrogen suppression system), power distribution panels, Power Generation, CCTV and other technical facilities.
2. Performs routine checks and upgrades the services as provided by the Manufacturer to ensure optimal functioning of the BMS system.
3. Monitors and verifies the operation of all BMS field devices.
4. Troubleshoots BMS system faults and develops repair solutions.
5. Adjusts BMS settings and parameters to meet changing conditions, i.e., Load, Environmental, Customer needs, etc.
6. Inspects, maintains, and supervise the repairs HVAC, Power Generation, Low-Voltage Electrical Switchgear, and CCTV systems.
7. Records maintenance data and generates reports as needed.
8. Escorts subcontractors to conduct PMCS and repairs of MCF critical system equipment.
9. Maintains documentation for all malfunctions, repairs, maintenance, or changes to systems and/or equipment.
10. Provides reports on all life safety, quality, and maintenance issues.
11. Keep machinery and specialty equipment running correctly.
12. Use specialized measuring and diagnostic devices to evaluate how services equipment is working.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Minimum education requirement: A diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering or HVAC.
• Ability to read schematic diagrams, single-line diagrams, and rough shop drawings
• Thorough knowledge of safety procedures, legal regulations, and guidelines
• Requires the ability to analyze the operation of various infrastructure systems, determine the cause of problems/malfunctions, and take corrective actions as required.
• Excellent physical condition and flexibility to work long shifts and overnight.
• Strong attention to detail and has analytical skills.
• Effective communication and organizational skills.

Work Environment

Work is generally conducted inside a secure, access-controlled and climate-controlled, permanent structure. However, duties will involve a potential exposure to extreme temperatures and must comply with all Fire and Safety Regulations and post policies.

Required training

It will be beneficial to have completed the following courses:

• Honeywell - Alerton's Controller.
• Honeywell –Excel Controller.
• Siemens
• Johnson Controls
• Training in CCNA, MCITP, PC Hardware.
• Training in Automation (PLC, SCADA).

In addition, experience with the following software is a plus:

• Honeywell- EBI R310.1, EBI R410, R410.2, R430.10.
• Honeywell- Envision BACTalk Workstation.
• Johnson Control- Meta System.
• Siemens- Desigo Insight V4.1, Desigo CC V2.01.

BMS operator

Manage daily maintenance operations and operate the Building Management System (BMS) at the Main Communications Facility (MCF) in support of the UAE Base Operations & Security Support Services.

The BMS Operator provides supervision of subcontractors to ensure compliance with the performance work statement (PWS) for operation and maintenance of infrastructure and utilities in the MCF through inspections and preventive/corrective maintenance. Concurrent duties include managing the BMS, responding to alarms, notifying appropriate management personnel, and performing various tasks related to the whole building facilities to work in a high efficiency by keeping close monitoring, reading the parameters, analyzing and acting according to the B.M.S indication and maintaining the climate conditions inside the building.

1. Operates and maintains BMS for proper function and monitors against approved benchmarks to include: HVAC, Lighting, Security, Fire alarm, firefighting system (including the Nitrogen suppression system), power distribution panels, Power Generation, CCTV and other technical facilities.
2. Performs routine checks and upgrades the services as provided by the Manufacturer to ensure optimal functioning of the BMS system.
3. Monitors and verifies the operation of all BMS field devices.
4. Troubleshoots BMS system faults and develops repair solutions.
5. Adjusts BMS settings and parameters to meet changing conditions, i.e., Load, Environmental, Customer needs, etc.
6. Inspects, maintains, and supervise the repairs HVAC, Power Generation, Low-Voltage Electrical Switchgear, and CCTV systems.
7. Records maintenance data and generates reports as needed.
8. Escorts subcontractors to conduct PMCS and repairs of MCF critical system equipment.
9. Maintains documentation for all malfunctions, repairs, maintenance, or changes to systems and/or equipment.
10. Provides reports on all life safety, quality, and maintenance issues.
11. Keep machinery and specialty equipment running correctly.
12. Use specialized measuring and diagnostic devices to evaluate how services equipment is working.

• Minimum education requirement: A diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering or HVAC.
• Ability to read schematic diagrams, single-line diagrams, and rough shop drawings
• Thorough knowledge of safety procedures, legal regulations, and guidelines
• Requires the ability to analyze the operation of various infrastructure systems, determine the cause of problems/malfunctions, and take corrective actions as required.
• Excellent physical condition and flexibility to work long shifts and overnight.
• Strong attention to detail and has analytical skills.
• Effective communication and organizational skills.

Work is generally conducted inside a secure, access-controlled and climate-controlled, permanent structure. However, duties will involve a potential exposure to extreme temperatures and must comply with all Fire and Safety Regulations and post policies.

It will be beneficial to have completed the following courses:

• Honeywell - Alerton's Controller.
• Honeywell –Excel Controller.
• Siemens
• Johnson Controls
• Training in CCNA, MCITP, PC Hardware.
• Training in Automation (PLC, SCADA).

• Honeywell- EBI R310.1, EBI R410, R410.2, R430.10.
• Honeywell- Envision BACTalk Workstation.
• Johnson Control- Meta System.
• Siemens- Desigo Insight V4.1, Desigo CC V2.01.

The role of the Design and Estimation Engineer – Building Management Systems involves overseeing the comprehensive estimation and design processes for BMS/IBMS systems and related projects.

• Conduct thorough estimations and design for BMS/IBMS systems and associated projects.

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering – Mechanical or Fire Safety is required.

• Two to four years of experience in Building Management Systems within an engineering or construction company are necessary.

• Proficiency in technical aspects of BMS/IBMS and metering solutions is essential.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, MS Visio, Star Draw, and SketchUp is beneficial.
• Value engineering skills for estimating BMS/EMS/CMS systems are valuable.
• Design and estimation expertise for PLC and SCADA systems are highly desirable.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools is expected.

• Entry-level position available.

• Construction industry.

Becoming a BMS technician involves delivering technical expertise in the operation and maintenance of building management systems (BMS) and associated building services system controls. To excel in this role, you will require strong analytical skills, proficiency in MS Office applications particularly Excel, and experience in implementing BMS systems.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled individual to contribute to the installation, commissioning, and implementation of BMS systems and associated services. You will be working with a team of experienced professionals to deliver high-quality results in MEP projects.

The ideal candidate will possess a degree in human resources or administration, advanced analytical skills, and excellent MS Office skills including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio, and Power Bi. Prior experience in HR/Admin background is necessary. Certifications such as Lean Six Sigma Yellow/Green/Black Belt are also preferred.

Key Responsibilities: