Facilities Maintenance Lead — HVAC, Gym & Pool

Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd is seeking a hands-on maintenance leader to manage preventative maintenance, repairs, and safety across gym facilities. You will oversee plant, premises, and equipment maintenance, coordinate with contractors, and ensure brand standards are met through proactive task scheduling and thorough reporting.

The role requires practical maintenance expertise, strong coordination with CGM/Ops, and a hands-on approach to repairing and maintaining facilities in line

Responsibilities

• Maintain and repair plant
• Follow preventative schedule for HVAC
• Communicate faults and action plans to CGM/Ops and Regional MM
• Use maintenance log in system on intranet for faults
• Adhere to downtime as stipulated on intranet
• Be hands on and repair faults where possible
• Liaise with landlord/contractors on issues/repairs
• Be hands on and repair and maintain where possible according to brand standards
• Complete and fax/email downtime reports to relevant contractors
• Ensure completion of preventative maintenance as per contractor stipulations
• Maintain a history of equipment maintenance and preventative schedules
• Be hands on, repair and maintain equipment according to brand standards
• Do visual inspection via walkabout
• Check job book, MOD checklists and fitness checklists
• Check pool and enter results on pool log
• Action tasks as per brand standards RAP sheet
• Follow up all maintenance related issues on the Hey Manager cards
• Schedule tasks from preventative maintenance schedule
• Liaise with CGM/Ops Manager on affects to operations in club
• Ensure pool maintenance completed
• Ensure pool checked and pool key readings recorded according to operating standards
• Ensure inspection of weirs conducted
• Ensure pool dosed according to readings
• Ensure backwashing falls within pressure parameters.Ensure pool internal and external maintained and repaired to brand standards
• Ensure temperatures displayed
• Liaise with Ops/CGM and RMM as required
• Ensure dosing systems do not run dry
• Manage health & safety requirements in the club
• Manage your department to work within the health & safety requirements
• Familiarise yourself with the OSH Act
• Assist in ensuring that brand standards are maintained
• Conduct regular brand standard checks
• Assist in developing RAP
• Assist GM/Ops to manage the RAP to conclusion
• Manage projects to conclusion
• Ensure compliance to job specs
• Ensure work areas left in condition found
• Manage contractor to adhere to health and safety standards
• Liaise with relevant parties
• Sign off contractors job card on completion if satisfactory and quality checked
• Follow up on snag lists
• Refer snags/issues to Regional Maintenance Manager
• Ensure maintenance of Club is within budget
• Liaise with CGM on budget constraints/availability
• Ensure all repairs/costs/quotes to within budget
• Control and maintain stock levels
• Ensure there is sufficient stock available at all times
• Follow e-procurement system with the assistance from CGM/Ops using preferred suppliers and authorisation systems
• Check quality and delivery of orders
• Ensure stock control systems in place
• Manage team to achieve scheduled tasks
• Priorities and set timelines for team with tasks
• Adhere to quality control standards
• Follow up and check completed tasks
• Establish understanding of task and correct tool application
• Distribute tasks equitably in team including tasks to yourself
• Manage staffing compliment
• Ensure staff adequately trained to deliver on functional/operational needs
• Ensure communication on all company initiatives/launches
• Manage shift rosters/leave cycles
• Induct staff on operational needs
• Have a succession plan
• Be available for call outs/ telephonic assistance
• Assist and comply with any lawful and reasonable requests from manager

Job description

Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd is seeking a hands-on maintenance leader to manage preventative maintenance, repairs, and safety across gym facilities. You will oversee plant, premises, and equipment maintenance, coordinate with contractors, and ensure brand standards are met through proactive task scheduling and thorough reporting.

The role requires practical maintenance expertise, strong coordination with CGM/Ops, and a hands-on approach to repairing and maintaining facilities in line