Industrial Camp Boss / Site General Manager
International Facilities Services Industrial Camp Boss / Site General Manager
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
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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
Experience
• 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.