Facilities Caretaker and Permit to Work officer

Teraco Data Environments

2025/03/04 Gauteng

Job Reference Number: FCPTWOJB1

Department: Infrastructure Management

Industry: Information Technology

Job Type: Permanent

Positions Available: 2

Salary: Market Related

The Facilities Caretaker and Permit to Work officer is the single point of contact, responsible for ensuring effective and efficient day to day management of all building maintenance, issuing of work permits and effective management of waste recycling in line with international ISO standards.

Job Description

The Facilities Caretaker and Permit to Work officer is required to attend to and resolve all matters including but not limited to the day-to-day maintenance, aesthetical upkeep of the interior as well as exterior of the entire facility, general maintenance, handyman duties as well as end to end waste management at the facility.

OBJECTIVES

Main Functions Of The Job

1. Responsible for implementing, management and compliance tracking of the Teraco Permit to Work system for all on site activities.
2. Schedule, manage and close out day to day general building maintenance activities to ensure that the facility remains in class leading condition.
3. Schedule, manage and close out of general building maintenance including but not limited to general repairs, water proofing, spill clean-up, routine cleaning and inspection of water distribution storage and polishing systems.
4. Schedule, manage and close out of regular inspections and repairs of building façade, perimeter security systems including electric and general fencing, gates, booms, and landscaping.
5. Manage all waste generated on site, sorting, separation, recycling, removal and disposal in accordance with local municipal by-laws, national regulation and international best practice standards. Continuously measuring compliance against ISO standards.
6. Approve and manage contractor work procedures to ensure compliance with Teraco HS&E guidelines and as outlined by the OSH act, always ensuring safety first working methods.
7. Manage and supervise a small team of general labourers to ensure the facility is maintained to industry standards and best practice.
8. Provide ongoing guidance and HSE training to your team to ensure their competency within their respective roles.
9. Manage working methods to ensure compliance and maintaining of all client SLA’s and internal OLA’s.

1. SKILLS REQUIREMENT

• Previous Permit to work and Risk Assessment experience.
• Previous exposure to risk and compliance audit would be advantageous.
• Electrical, plumbing and general building maintenance experience would be advantageous.
• Water recovery and filtration, fire sprinkler system experience or knowledge would be advantageous but not an absolute requirement.
• Proactive problem solver, able to perform rapid and accurate assessments.
• Able to work extended and after-hours, unsupervised, when so required.
• Remains calm and able to make clear and concise decisions under pressure.
• Excellent technical understanding of trade with a nature of continued learning and self-development.
• Effective communication skills, active listener with ability to understand and transfer skills and requirements to team.
• Always conduct self professionally, exhibits high levels of tolerance and patience even under pressure.
• Quick to respond to potential critical situations.
• Computer literate and well versed with MS office suite.
• Trouble shoot systems and components to identified root cause of failures.
• Competent with incident management and reporting.

1. Minimum 5 years’ working experience as handy man with sound knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental standards and procedures.
2. 3-5 years’ experience in management of a maintenance team.
3. Experienced working in a Data Centre, Construction or Enterprise environment would be advantageous.
4. Strong Operations or Construction background with good understanding of Permit to Work system requirements and processes.
5. Sound knowledge of site equipment, operating systems and activities related to the data centre or construction environment.
6. Sound knowledge of City of Johannesburg and national laws and by-laws.
7. Sound knowledge of Local and International safe working best practices.
8. Effective communication, presentation, and training skills.
9. Good knowledge of Data Centre and Critical Infrastructure environments would be advantageous.
10. Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable interacting, personnel and management at all levels.