Maintenance and Quality Assurance Manager

About the role

The Johannesburg Housing Company is looking for a Maintenance and Quality Assurance Manager. The role manages maintenance quality assurance, small works projects, building compliance audits and advises on complex maintenance issues in buildings.

Key responsibilities

• Maintenance quality assurance: review maintenance work through site visits and work reviews, raise quality concerns and monitor corrective action; improve asset operation and maintenance processes; track supplier performance and recommend terminating contracts where needed
• Maintenance project management: develop plans within the approved project management framework, monitor progress and risks, approve project files and reports, prepare for completion reviews and hand over projects including commissioning, testing, technical manuals and training
• Building compliance audits and occupational health and safety: maintain a building compliance calendar, carry out compliance audits and coordinate compliance certificates, and audit buildings for health and safety risks
• Building support equipment: take part in equipment handovers, verify quality of scheduled maintenance, diagnose recurring faults and resolve high-risk equipment failures such as lifts

Required profile

• Qualified artisan in electrical, fitting and turning, millwrighting or similar
• Extensive technical maintenance and management experience is considered in the absence of a relevant qualification
• 5 to 7 years of technical maintenance and/or construction management experience
• 2 years of service provider management experience
• Experience in a residential property environment is preferred