Jobs at International Facilities Services Limited - IFS

Job Description

• The Industrial Camp Boss / Site General Manager owns everything that makes an industrial campus run safely, smoothly, and to a world-class standard — every day, without exception. 
• This is not a maintenance supervisor role with extra duties bolted on. It is the single point of operational accountability for the physical site: its infrastructure, its safety, its security, and the experience of everyone who lives, works, or visits there.
• The site is large and the team is substantial. 
• The successful candidate will be a genuine operator — someone who has run a facility, a base, or a comparable site before, and who treats a campus the way a ship's captain treats a vessel: total ownership, total accountability, zero tolerance for “that's not my department.”
• Where most facilities roles stop at “keeping the lights on,” this role is mandated to deliver a hospitality-grade experience on an industrial site — guesthouses, catering, and VIP hosting run with the same polish as a well-managed 5-star hotel, layered on top of the engineering and security discipline of a serious industrial operation.

Requirements

Maintenance & Facilities Management:

• Own all planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, civil works, and general infrastructure.
• Maintain an asset register and maintenance schedule for all critical site equipment (generators, pumps, transformers, water treatment, etc.), with documented uptime targets.
• Manage power and water continuity, including backup systems, and ensure rapid response to any failure or outage.
• Oversee grounds keeping, civil infrastructure, waste management, and general site upkeep to a consistently high visual and functional standard.
• Manage facilities-related contractors and vendors, ensuring SLAs are met and costs are controlled.
• Maintain compliance with relevant health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulations and standards.

Security Management:

• Design, implement, and continuously improve site security protocols: access control, perimeter security, surveillance (CCTV), and visitor management.
• Supervise the security workforce (in-house and/or outsourced guard force), including rostering, performance, and conduct.
• Own incident response — from minor breaches to serious security events — including documentation, escalation, and after-action review.
• Liaise with external security agencies, law enforcement, and emergency services as needed.
• Conduct regular risk assessments and security audits of the campus, recommending and implementing improvements.
• Maintain emergency preparedness plans (fire, medical, security threat, natural disaster) and run periodic drills.

Hospitality & Guest Experience:

• Own the end-to-end experience of anyone living on, working on, or visiting the campus — staff accommodation, guesthouses, catering, and event hosting.
• Set and enforce service standards for catering and housekeeping that meet a five-star hospitality benchmark, not an industrial-canteen one.
• Personally oversee VIP visits and high-stakes hosting moments — board visits, investor tours, government or partner delegations — ensuring flawless execution.
• Manage relationships with hospitality vendors (catering, laundry, housekeeping contractors) and hold them to the same standard expected of the in-house team.
• Continuously gather feedback from site residents and visitors and act on it — comfort and experience are measured, not assumed.

Leadership, Budget & Reporting:

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team across maintenance, facilities, security, and hospitality functions, setting clear standards and holding the team to them.
• Own the site operating budget, track spend against plan, and proactively flag risks or savings opportunities.
• Provide regular, honest reporting to the MD/CEO on site status, incidents, risks, and spend — surfacing bad news early rather than managing it quietly.
• Build and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) across all four functional areas, so the site does not depend on any single person's memory.
• Drive a culture of pride, discipline, and accountability among on-site staff, including contracted and outsourced personnel.

Person Specification

• 8+ years of progressive experience in facilities management, site/base operations, hospitality operations, or a comparable multi-disciplinary operational role.
• Demonstrable experience managing a sizeable team (20+ staff) across more than one functional discipline.
• Prior experience in industrial, oil & gas, manufacturing, hospitality (resort/hotel operations), or similarly complex live-site environments is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing security operations and/or working closely with security personnel is required.
• Experience managing budgets and vendor/contractor relationships at a meaningful scale.

Skills & Attributes:

• Calm, decisive crisis management — able to take charge of an incident (power failure, security breach, medical emergency) without waiting for instruction.
• Genuine hospitality instinct — understands and cares about the experience of guests and residents, not just the mechanics of facilities.
• Strong people leadership across a diverse, multi-skilled workforce, including lower-skilled and contracted staff.
• Comfortable with data and reporting tools (Excel at minimum) for tracking maintenance schedules, incidents, and budgets.
• High personal presence and credibility — able to represent the site confidently in front of senior leadership, investors, or visiting dignitaries.
• Willingness to be resident or near-resident on site, with availability for emergencies outside standard hours.

Benefits

• Competitive.

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Job Description

• PGC Initiative is the Company's flagship ESG initiative: a large-scale program designed to support the development of a circular economy by promoting sustainable waste management practices, beginning with gated residential communities, commercial developments, and industrial estates. 
• The project introduces a colour-coded waste segregation system that encourages waste separation at source, making recycling, recovery, and responsible disposal more effective and sustainable. 
• The initiative is implemented in collaboration with relevant environmental regulators, local authorities, community associations, and private-sector stakeholders, with waste segregation bins and circular economy technology, processes and systems made available at accessible and competitive prices to encourage widespread and sustained adoption.
• PGC Initiative is structured as a commercially viable enterprise with a strong social and environmental impact mandate rather than a traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) program. 
• It operates with clearly defined commercial objectives, strategic stakeholder partnerships, and a scalable growth model aimed at establishing a sustainable and defensible footprint across multiple communities, cities, and regions over time. Through this approach, the project seeks to create long-term environmental value, support economic opportunities within the recycling value chain, and contribute meaningfully to the transition towards a more circular and resource-efficient economy.
• We are hiring a single, senior owner to build and run PGC Initiative end-to-end. 
• This person will report directly to the MD/CEO and will be the public face, commercial owner, and operational driver of the initiative.
• The ideal candidate combines genuine sustainability/circular-economy credibility — ideally with international exposure — with the commercial instincts of someone who has run a P&L, plus the political and relational skill to manage a long-term government partnership without losing momentum.

Strategy & Project Ownership:

• Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for PGC Initiative, from current pilot footprint to city-wide scale.
• Translate the circular economy vision into a phased, executable plan: estate selection, sequencing, resourcing, and milestones.
• Build out the project team over time — field operations, partnerships, and commercial functions — as scale demands.

Government & Regulatory Relations:
Serve as the primary relationship owner with EPA's and other relevant regulatory bodies.

Navigate approvals, permits, and regulatory requirements needed to expand footprint across the city.

Identify and pursue opportunities to deepen or formalize the government partnership over time (e.g. Co-funded initiatives, policy advocacy).

Commercial Ownership:

• Own sales, pricing, and revenue targets for the multicolored bin distribution model.
• Build and manage the commercial funnel: estate outreach, conversion, fulfillment, and after-sales relationship.
• Track unit economics and channel performance, and continuously refine the commercial model for profitability and scale.
• Report regularly to the MD/CEO on commercial performance, with clear, honest visibility into what is and isn't working.

Stakeholder & Partnership Engagement:

• Build relationships with estate management associations and gated residential/industrial estate decision-makers to drive adoption.
• Engage corporate ESG partners, international development organizations, and potential funders or co-investors in the circular economy space.
• Represent the project at relevant industry, government, and international forums.

Brand & Narrative:

• Position PGC Initiative as a flagship, visible ESG story for the business — through media engagement, public communications, and stakeholder storytelling.
• Act as the credible public face of the initiative in press, panels, and partner-facing communications.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in sustainability, circular economy, waste management, infrastructure, or a comparable multi-stakeholder commercial role.
• Demonstrated experience working internationally or with international organizations (DFIs, multinationals, NGOs, development agencies) — candidates with foreign work or study exposure are strongly preferred.
• A track record of owning and hitting commercial/revenue targets, not only running programs or managing grants.
• Experience engaging government or regulatory bodies directly, ideally in Nigeria or a comparable emerging-market context.

Skills & Attributes:

• Fluent in global circular economy and ESG frameworks (e.g. SDGs, extended producer responsibility, climate disclosure norms), and able to translate them credibly for local and international audiences alike.
• Strong commercial instincts — comfortable with pricing, unit economics, and revenue accountability.
• Polished, credible communicator across very different audiences: government regulators, estate committees, corporate partners, and international funders.
• Comfortable spending real time in the field — this is not a desk-bound strategy role.
• High personal integrity and transparency, particularly in government and partner-facing dealings.
• Entrepreneurial mindset — genuinely energized by building a new venture rather than inheriting an established playbook.

Benefits

• Attractive.