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Industrial Camp Boss Site General Manager


Job Location:

Lagos - Nigeria

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 21 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

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 ships captain treats a vessel: total ownership total accountability zero tolerance for thats 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 persons 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.



Benefits
Competitive


Required Skills:

5. Qualifications Experience & Person Profile Essential Requirements Minimum HND or in Environmental Health Occupational Health & Safety Environmental Science or a related discipline Recognised HSE qualification NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) is strongly preferred; ISPON membership or IOSH Managing Safely certification is acceptable at minimum Minimum 5 years of relevant HSE experience with at least 3 years in a facilities management hospitality or large commercial building environment Demonstrable experience directly supervising cleaning grounds or soft services teams this is not a purely administrative or desk-based HSE role; operational supervisory experience is non-negotiable Working knowledge of COSHH regulations chemical safety data sheets and safe chemical handling procedures relevant to cleaning and grounds operations Experience managing and coordinating pest control programmes in a large commercial or institutional facility Competent in the preparation review and enforcement of risk assessments method statements and Permits to Work Proficient in Microsoft Office able to produce professional inspection reports schedules and management summaries independently The Person We Need You walk the facility with sharp eyes you notice the spill before a visitor slips on it the weed before it becomes an eyesore and the pest sign before it becomes an infestation You lead by being present your team knows your standards because they see you inspect correct and recognise good work every day not once a week You are firm on safety and standards without being inflexible you know how to get compliance through training respect and clear expectations not fear You can write a professional incident report and present cleaning audit scores to a client in the same morning and do both well