Facility Manager

About Cove: Cove is the new way to rent your home! We’re a co-living start-up making it easier and more affordable for young people to have a comfortable place they can call home with a seamless rental experience from end to end. We provide our tenants with stylishly furnished properties, in the most awesome locations in Singapore and Jakarta and make the whole rental process seamless from end to end. Our contract terms are flexible like our tenant’s lives and our rental prices include everything from utilities and wifi and weekly cleaning. What’s unique about Cove is that our tenants get matched with great flatmates and also have access to our community events around the city. Check us out for more exciting information at https://cove.sg/.

At Cove we reward and praise strong performance and strive to produce zero-defect results. We always aim for excellence and to always have the mindset of continuous improvement. In achieving results, we still make work fun and we completely value our team as people, not just resources in which we display care as well as empathy. Celebrating success with our team is also our priority and we highly encourage integrity and transparency.

Job Title: Facilities Manager (Maintenance)

Job Type: Permanent

Reports To: Head of Tenant Experience and Operations

Main Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage the day to day activities of the Facilities Team
• Plan scheduled maintenance audits
• Managing in-house technicians to address minor repair work and maintenance tasks,
• Address major maintenance, refurbishment and replacement work with Property Owner and gain approval before proceeding with the required works
• Troubleshoot and assessing of maintenance and repair works and organize for the appropriate contractor
• Conduct regular inspections of properties and perform preventive maintenance to keep the property functioning in good condition
• Manage and oversee major maintenance or repair works
• Ensure compliance of safety & building regulations and all other statutory requirements
• Plan and ensure scheduled maintenance works are completed on time (AC servicing, pest control, horticultural works etc.)
• Ensure the proper maintenance of fittings, fixtures and equipment provided in the Coves
• Manage maintenance and repair works according to the budget allocated
• Act as a liaison between contractors and internal teams
• Contribute to improving our facilities management processes
• Maintain general condition of storeroom/warehousing and ownership of inventory
• Any other reasonable and related tasks for the smooth running of the Facilities Team

Deliverables:

• Ensure all our properties are in great livable condition by effectively and efficiently managing the Facilities team.

Experience and Qualifications Required:

Essential

• Degree in Hospitality, Business, Management or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of proven work experience in the Hospitality (specifically in Rooms) or Property Management industry.
• Strong leadership skills, and excellent at navigating in an unstructured environment
• Good analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Good team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to manage and resolve conflicts equitably and in the most productive manner in accordance with th Group’s values
• Result driven and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Able to create and maintain an efficient system of operation to support the business needs
• Able to multitask and work cross-functionally with different business units.
• Diploma in Facilities Management or management related fields
• Fluent in spoken and written English (Mandarin or Malay is a bonus)
• Excellent problem solving and time management skills
• Project management skills

Preferred

• Experience in facilities management especially with different types of residential

Core Skills/Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Time management skills
• Project management skills
• Hands on repair and maintenance skill is a big bonus

What’s in it for You: Join us and you’ll be surrounded by our three inspiring co-founders: Sophie, Luca, and Guillaume. You’ll also be working directly with them and get to experience first-hand what it takes to get a new high-growth business off the ground. Working for Cove gives you the opportunity to learn in an exciting young startup incubated through Antler. Co and take ownership from day one. The team is fast-paced but you can expect a highly-supportive environment where your voices will be heard and appreciated at all times. We are hard-working and expect results but definitely value employee engagement as well as committed to creating a human and empathetic environment. We actively encourage your development to help become a better you with plenty of fun thrown in.