Maintenance & Facilities Manager France

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Within the Store Excellence Department, the Maintenance & Facility Manager helps to maintain an efficient and professional working environment that meets the company's requirements, while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, cost control, and optimizing the quality of services provided.

He/she supervises the activities of the maintenance, cleanings, logistics & mail, administrative, etc. for EssilorLuxottica and GV buildings and stores, ensuring high standards of services and attention to detail and verifying that the activities carried out by internal staff and suppliers are in line with quality expectations, intervention times, costs, and KPIs.

He/she manages his/her teams and supervises maintenance and facilities activities.

Responsibilities:

The Maintenance & Facility Manager is responsible for optimizing the availability of all equipment and infrastructure at the sites within his/her scope of activity (sites in the Paris region and remote sites to ensure business continuity, for buildings and stores both).

He/she ensures that the necessary resources are put in place to resolve malfunctions, anticipate technical problems, and make proposals for improvements. It makes recommendations to the department heads for their work requests and decides on maintenance work according to priorities within the annual budget.

He/she is the guarantor of regulatory standards, ensures compliance with current health and safety standards, and keeps the register up to date.

Technical activities

• Analysing/assisting in the analysis of site requirements: overseeing the definition and/or definition of maintenance and/or works programmes for the various areas, structures and facilities, establishing operating procedures and proposing optimisation (e.g. energy management) and ensuring that resources are properly managed.
• Manage services at buildings and stores (e.g. ordinary maintenance activities, extraordinary reactive/corrective maintenance interventions and projects for the repair/replacement/upgrade of equipment and systems such as: electrical and lighting, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection and prevention, BMS, lifts and hoists, false ceiling panels, flooring, coverings, windows, doors, automatic doors, gates, turnstiles, building roofing and related insulation, painting, blacksmithing, plumbing, window and plasterboard work, maintenance of kitchen and bar equipment, etc., cleanings, canteen, reception, mail-office, etc.)
• In the event of an emergency that could jeopardise business continuity, identifying solutions to resolve the situation quickly and effectively.
• Working with other departments, with the support of his/her team, to deal with requests for new works or refurbishments.
• Ensuring that operational activities (maintenance and services) are properly supervised, with the support of middle management.
• Ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with current health and regulatory requirements.

Managing the activity budget

• Drawing up and analysing expenditure, evaluating variances between the forecast budget and the actual budget, proposing measures to save money and optimise the budget.
• Assessing the financial resources required to keep the departments running smoothly.

Managing a team

• Participate in the recruitment process and ensure the integration of new arrivals.
• Develop, train and plan the training needed to achieve the team's objectives and enhance the employability of the team members.
• Evaluate individual performance, conduct performance and development reviews as well as professional interviews, participate in the annual salary review process for his/her team.
• Leading the team to ensure a good quality of life at work: atmosphere, climate, regular team meetings (performance, priorities, strategic orientations, HSE risks, etc.), listening individually and collectively, etc.
• Ensuring compliance with internal regulations, HSE instructions/rules and regulations on work organisation and working hours.
• Promote and guarantee the Group's principles and values.

Candidate profile:

• Level of knowledge equivalent to Master’s Degree and at least 5 years of experience in structured companies, with a widespread presence of high-level Stores.
• Managing resources, with the target to consolidate EL and GV teams like a real “One-Team”.
• Keeping costs in control.
• Keeping buildings and stores in perfect condition.
• Continuous improvement of processes and technologies.

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