Senior Maintenance Specialist, Germany

UNIQLO is a leading brand of the Fast Retailing Group, one of the largest apparel retailers in the world. UNIQLO respects the individuality and lifestyle of all customers and takes pride in creating high quality, long-lasting, innovative clothing at an affordable price.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Maintenance Specialist to support stores across Germany and Poland. Based in our Berlin office, you will sit in a wider European team and report into our European Store Maintenance Manager. In this role you will partner with internal departments across Store and Head Office as well as external suppliers at a local level for your two territories.

This is an opportunity for someone with previous experience in owning the maintenance across multi site locations, ideally across both Germany and Poland. Your primary mission is to serve the stores and ensure maximum performance of our facilities for the safety of our team and our customers. It will be your responsibility to guarantee this service, intervening where necessary and reporting to the EU Maintenance and country COO’s.

What you will be responsible for:
- Management of intervention requests according to priorities concerning the preventive and curative maintenance of stores and Head Office by controlling the quality of the work by highlighting real skills in planning and organization.- Actively participate in the appropriate implementation, monitoring and control of new or existing stores by working closely with the design and construction of the store, while being a force of suggestion.- Management, monitoring and preparation of budgets in order to increase the positive impact of PNL.- Management, improvement and daily monitoring of the Service Channel and Invoicing systems including the creation and integration of new suppliers.- Maintain a weekly visit schedule to acquire a perfect knowledge of our stores.- Supplier Management (control office, maintenance company, elevator, goods lift, escalators and air conditioning, etc) and ownership of the supplier tendering process to ensure efficiency, quality and budget effectiveness- Lifting of reservations to ensure follow-up of regulatory verifications.- Preparation, planning, monitoring and in-store presence during “Safety Commissions”.- Management of store disasters (contact with insurance, owners, tenants and service providers)- Responsiveness and strength of proposal and active participation in maintenance improvement activities.- Daily communication based on needs with our service providers, stores and Head Office.

Skills, Experience and Attributes:
- High school diploma or technical training degree (Ausbildung)- At least 5 years of experience in a maintenance department, ideally in the retail sector or in a specialised agency.- Air conditioning and electrician certificate would be an advantage (IHK documents)- Travel to store is required so you must be geographically mobile across Germany and Poland- Detail oriented, autonomous way of working and highly organized- Excellent time management skills and ability to adapt- Sense of rapid and effective emergency management.- Fluent in both German and English is essential; Polish is an additional advantage- Excellent interpersonal skills will be essential to succeed in this position. What we can offer you:
- 30 days holiday allowance- Bi-annual bonus potential- Profit share scheme- Meal allowance/month- Mobility allowance/month- 30% Staff Discount- Central Location of stores and office- Hybrid Working potential- Volunteer days - twice a year- Employer-funded pension scheme

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