Senior Specialist, Real Estate

Senior Specialist, Real Estate & Facilities
**Senior Facilities Specialist - Cape Town**
**Be the spark that brightens days and ignite your career with TTEC’s award-winning employment experience. As a Senior Facilities Specialist working**onsite**in**Cape Town**, you’ll be a part of bringing humanity to business. #experienceTTEC**

**What you’ll be Doing**:
You will ensure a safe, attractive and functional physical environment for all employees. Supporting the department vision to create an exceptional workplace. You will develop, implement, and maintain facility programs that reflect the priorities of continuous improvement, automation, thinking globally and identifying best practices, while at the same time working to reduce TTEC’s financial exposure.

You will report to the Senior Site Manager of Facilities and be part of the wider regional facilities team. You will work 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday between the times of 12 noon and 10pm.

**During a Typical Day you will**:

- Proactively manage complete facility maintenance of building/sites including but not limited to maintaining superior condition of company space; acting as the landlord/vendor liaison.
- Review government regulations, renewal of operating licenses, work permits, and other requirements from the authorities related to the business.
- Own the transportation scope and services for our employees from and to our site.
- Effectively leads and manages Facilities team, within the department’s SLA and KPIs standards. including but not limited to Facilities Technicians, Service Contractors, Facilities Systems (BMS), Security Team, Janitorial Team and all critical equipment contractors.
- Effectively manages customer expectations and ongoing customer relations. Communicates status and timeline of facility maintenance projects, enhancements, and changes.
- Implement and communicate policies that will impact on safety and security to customers to include the Risk Management policies pertaining Information Security and Management System.
- Manages facility programs covering disaster preparedness and recovery and coordinates with headquarters division to implement company-wide Emergency Response Plan. Being the point of contact during a disaster situation to return safely to operations, requires to be available or have a designee to response in timely manner.
- Maintains and oversees facilities architectural drawings and floor plans. Ensures all construction drawings and floor plans are accurate and up to date.
- Maintains the database of the facilities fixed assets and it’s ranking
- Based on geographic location could be the point of contact from the Facilities perspective for:
- Assist with Environmental questions / issues.
- Acts as Emergency Manager during emergencies like calamities, fire, etc.
- Commander of Emergency Control Organization (ECO) Support.
- Has the full control of ECO activation within the area of responsibility.
- Updates Emergency Director on the emergency situations.
- Assist with Health Safety and Environment issues.
- Department of Labor and Employment.
- Bureau of Fire Protection Coordinator and permit processing.
- Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Pollution Control Officer and Managing Head

**Education | Experience**
- Associates degree in a Facilities related field and or a vocational/technical diploma with minimum 3 years’ experience in a supervisory role in facilities. Experience in electrical, lighting, budget planning, plumbing and HVAC is a plus.
- The activities are not limited to the list, rather is just a guide.

**About TTEC**
Our business is about making customers happy. That’s all we do. Since 1982, we’ve helped companies build engaged, pleased, profitable customer experiences powered by our combination of humanity and technology. On behalf of many of the world’s leading iconic and disruptive brands, we talk, message, text, and video chat with millions of customers every day. These exceptional customer experiences start with you.

**Primary Location**: : ZA-Western Cape-Cape Town