Job Description

Role Purpose

Serve as the operational owner of the Film Studio’s physical assets, ensuring soundstages, workshops, backlots, offices, utilities, and supporting infrastructure remain safe, functional, compliant, and production-ready. The role is responsible for facilities oversight, asset performance tracking, vendor coordination, maintenance planning, and operational readiness across activation and steady-state studio operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all studio facilities, soundstages, workshops, backlots, offices, support spaces, and infrastructure remain operational and production-ready.
• Oversee preventive and reactive maintenance activities, including MEP services, utilities, cleaning, waste management, and general site upkeep.
• Manage facilities contractors, technical service providers, and specialist vendors against agreed SLAs, scope, quality, and response standards.
• Maintain asset registers, maintenance schedules, condition reports, lifecycle plans, and performance dashboards.
• Coordinate facilities readiness requirements for productions, tenants, workshops, events, and temporary installations.
• Translate production and tenant requirements into facilities, utilities, logistics, site access, and operational readiness plans.
• Support development-to-operations handover, commissioning close-out, defects tracking, and asset acceptance activities.
• Monitor asset condition, equipment performance, service disruptions, and recurring maintenance issues.
• Coordinate with HSE to ensure facilities operations comply with safety requirements and statutory obligations.
• Coordinate with Security, IT, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate Enablement teams on operational dependencies and service continuity.
• Support budget planning, maintenance cost tracking, asset lifecycle assumptions, and facilities-related procurement requirements.
• Implement operating procedures, readiness checklists, inspection routines, and escalation protocols for facilities services.
• Manage facilities-related incident reporting, corrective actions, and risk mitigation plans.
• Prepare operational reports, maintenance dashboards, vendor performance updates, and asset performance insights for leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, cost efficiency, sustainability, and service quality across studio assets.

KPIs

• Facility uptime and production readiness rate
• Preventive maintenance completion rate
• Reactive maintenance response and closure time
• Vendor SLA compliance
• Asset condition and lifecycle tracking accuracy
• Number of unresolved facility-related incidents
• Budget adherence for facilities operations

Candidate Profile

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Property Management, or related field.
• Facilities management, asset management, or engineering certification preferred.

Experience

• 7–10 years of experience in facilities management, technical asset management, property operations, or infrastructure operations.
• Experience managing complex, asset-intensive, operational, entertainment, production, hospitality, or mixed-use environments preferred.
• Experience supporting commissioning, operational readiness, and handover from development to operations preferred.

Preferred Background

• Film studios, entertainment venues, destination assets, real estate operations, hospitality assets, industrial campuses, or technical facilities environments.
• Experience managing MEP services, technical contractors, site readiness, and service provider performance preferred.

Technical & Functional Expectations

• Strong knowledge of facilities management, MEP systems, utilities, preventive maintenance, and lifecycle planning.
• Ability to manage vendors, SLAs, operational risks, inspections, and service continuity requirements.
• Strong understanding of HSE, compliance, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness processes.
• Strong reporting, coordination, and issue resolution capability in operational environments.

Key Competencies

• Facilities management
• Asset performance management
• Vendor management
• Operational readiness
• Maintenance planning
• Risk management