This is a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the people, operational, and service foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about HR operations, payroll excellence, and creating exceptional employee experiences, we'd love to hear from you.
Role Purpose:Manages facilities operations, premises maintenance, and workplace services across head office and branches. Helps ensure sites are safe, reliable, cost-effective, and ready to support Day-1 banking operations.
Key responsibilities:Coordinate site fit-out, furnishing, signage, utilities activation, and handover activities against launch milestones. Operate preventive and corrective maintenance programs for building systems and equipment, including HVAC, power, lighting, and life-safety systems. Manage day-to-day workplace services, including cleaning, mailroom, pantry, space and desk management, and meeting facilities. Implement health-and-safety procedures, inspections, drills, records, and prompt closure of findings in line with applicable UAE requirements. Coordinate physical-security arrangements, including access control, CCTV, guarding, key management, and visitor procedures. Manage facilities vendors and service contracts, monitor SLAs and work quality, validate invoices, and drive performance and cost improvement. Track facilities spend against budget and maintain accurate floor plans, asset registers, permits, warranties, and service records. Support business continuity and emergency preparedness, including evacuation plans, facility-incident response, and alternate-site arrangements. Use approved smart-building and AI-enabled monitoring tools for utilization, energy, equipment health, work-order triage, and reporting, validating data and outputs.
Required Skills & Experience: 6+ years in facility management or corporate real estate operations within banking or financial services, including senior leadership of a facility management team. Deep expertise in site fit-out, building maintenance, workplace services, facilities vendor management, health and safety, and physical security coordination. Proven record building facilities operating procedures, maintenance programs, site-readiness plans, and vendor controls in a regulated environment. Strong knowledge of relevant CBUAE expectations where applicable and UAE health, safety, building, physical-security, and record-retention standards. Exposure to AI-enabled building monitoring, CAFM or digital workplace tooling, and advanced facilities and space-utilization analytics.
Qualifications & Certifications (Preferred) Bachelor’s degree or diploma in facility management, engineering, or a related field preferred. Facility-management or health-and-safety certification preferred. CBUAE Fit & Proper requirements and any applicable controlled-function eligibility criteria, where required.
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