Asset Manager (Gauteng)

2024/04/18
Reference Number
AMJB1
Description

Maintenance Management

  • Active participation to support management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost-effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime & 99.99% mechanical uptime.
  • Active involvement in planned, preventative and corrective maintenance activities for all Teraco Data Centres ensuring maximum system availability.
  • Ensure accuracy of asset register and link assets and spare parts to the relevant tasks on the maintenance management system i.e., asset and inventory management.
  • Analyse age of assets and forecast for end-of-life replacements.
  • Active participation in site hand-over process from Construction fit out to Operations.
  • Consistent reviews of maintenance working methods to ensure all SLA & MSA’s are achieved.
  • Co-ordinate, assess and review maintenance efforts to ensure all facilities maintained to Teraco standards.
  • Ensure that all work performed is in accordance with established practices and procedures.
  • Where possible, standardise maintenance activities across all facilities. 
  • Assist with annual maintenance contract negotiations, pricing agreements and sourcing of new suppliers.
  • Troubleshoot and perform effective root cause analysis to permanently resolve maintenance related issues. Adherence to timelines is critical.
  • Identify opportunities for Operational Excellence improvements and execute a change in maintenance strategy from Preventive to Predictive.
  • Monthly reporting on relevant maintenance metrics including but not limited to incident trend analysis on an asset/component level
  • Respond to emergency calls for maintenance.
  • Perform administrative tasks as required.

Compliance

  • Maintain compliance in accordance with all relative policies and procedures.
  • Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
  • H&S monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance, SLAs and good business practice.
  • Implement company and departmental policies, processes and work instructions as per the agreed quality and timeline/RFS.
  • Active participation for both external and internal audits

Critical System Management

  • Ensure all planned and corrective maintenance is managed in accordance to ensure customer MSA’s and SLAs are achieved.
  • Conduct working methods to maintain agreed PUE levels.
  • Task finalisation and report accurately, as per agreed format, quality and within the agreed timelines.
  • Ensure that the client communication process has been adhered to.

Data Centre Ethics

  • Ensure compliance is maintained incorporating industry best practices.
  • Ensure data centre facilities standards are enforced and maintained.
  • Ensure data centre cleaning standards are enforced and maintained.
Requirements

SKILLS REQUIREMENT

  • Excellent technical abilities.
  • Excellent planning and co-ordination skills.
  • Effective communication skills, active listener – ability to understand requirements.
  • Proactive problem solver, perform rapid and accurate assessments.
  • Ability to work independently, as well as being a positive team player.
  • Self-motivated
  • Conducts self professionally, exhibits elevated levels of tolerance and patience.
  • Responsible for continued learning and self-development.
  • Quick response to potentially critical situations.
  • Trouble shoot systems and components to identify root causes of failures.
  • Implement corrective actions promptly to mitigate the negative effects of system changes.
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills. 
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
  • Understanding and application of TPM Methodology.
  • Intermediate Project Management skills.

 Administrative duties

  • Ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulations.
  • Change and incident management.
  • Ensure adherence to all established guidelines and management practices for employees.
  • Occupational Health and Safety responsibilities.
  • Reporting accurately, as per agreed format, quality and timelines.
  • Outstanding organizational skills, ability to prioritize effectively, and experience with technical project management.

Behavior

  • Adopt a mindset of continuous improvement.
  • Lead by example.
  • Be on the lookout for constant process improvements.
  • Growing our people.
  • Delivering to our Shareholders.
  • Respecting each other.
  • Embracing Diversity.
  • Upholding the highest levels of integrity.
  • Serving our clients.
  • Highly service-oriented, reliable, responsible, self-motivated, and enthusiastic.
  • Ability to work productively in cross-functional teams or resourcefully and independently as an individual.
  • Focused on continued learning and self-development.

General

  • Open to provide after-hours support as needed for significant issues.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to consistently deliver results despite competing priorities and distractions

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Electrical qualification preferable.
  • Minimum 5 years relevant data centre experience.
  • Extensive knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems preferable.
  • Proficiency in SAP PM or similar CMMS/EAM systems preferable.
  • Proven ability to Maintain Assets and the facility, Control Parts Inventory, monitoring purchase orders, invoice approvals, and managing the department Budget.
  • Experience with CAPEX project execution preferable.
  • Proven experience with maintenance and reliability initiative, focused on Preventive and Predictive maintenance.
  • Manage maintenance teams (staff. technicians & contractors).
  • Experience with TPM/Lean Six Sigma methodology preferable.
Work Level
Skilled
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
Market Related
EE Position
No
Location
Gauteng