A. ARUL BASS
Facility Manager
Chennai,TN
Summary
Dynamic Facility Manager with extensive experience at EFC Office Infra, excelling in infrastructure maintenance and vendor management. Proven track record in optimizing operational efficiency and enhancing service standards. Skilled in budget preparation and adept at fostering strong team collaboration, ensuring seamless facility operations and exceptional client satisfaction.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Facility Manager
EFC Office Infra
Chennai
10.2019 - Current
- Leading the Facility Management Services function through proactive Planning and direction setting, ensuring that Service standards are maintained
- Create a suitable environment for the purpose and needs of the facility, such as an office building
- Handling the Technical, Soft service, Housekeeping, Security Services & BMS operations for a building measuring 22,692 Sqft area
- Undertake daily facility walk-around and ensure closure of all observations within the agreed timelines
- Managed contracts, contractors, and procurement functions and provided support for the facility’s budget.
- Participated in the monthly & Quarterly audit to verify the facility-related documents & operations
- Maintained and operated the facilities – Managed resources including budget, staff, contractors, consultants, and finances.
- Monitoring the cafeteria function and food quality daily, feedback is also collected from employees, and the necessary action is taken related to the mentioned points
- Coordinate for the arrangement of Client and VC visits and meetings
- Coordinate with travel vendors for cab arrangements as per the visitors' schedule and employee requests
- Track and maintain the Asset materials as per the documents
- Responsible for Event management, i.e., Auditorium booking, town hall arrangements, etc.
- Daily tracking of energy consumption, AHU Consumption & comparing with monthly EB consumption units
- Handling the petty cash with supporting bills
- Handling the BMS operation like CCTV, Access Control, FAS, PAS, and daily, monthly reports
- Handling the Plumbing works (WC, Urinals, Drainage & Waterline issues) and Carpentry work (Workstation arrangements, Storage cupboard, and wooden door issues), and also rectified the automatic doors complaints
- Maintaining UPS Systems (2X60 KVA,1X20 KVA), PAC unit, Ductable unit, and VRF Units
- Maintain the Server room, UPS room, and Battery rooms' temperature at the specified level
- Maintain and monitor all the Logbooks, Vendor PM Reports & Service Reports
- Check the daily checklists, log notes, and sign the same
- Maintaining the records of ordered, purchased, and used materials.
- Monthly meetings held with the Landlord & business partners team and MOM were documented as per the standard format & track closures of points
- Conducting scheduled preventive maintenance & annual shutdown maintenance for critical equipment was maintained, and the records were properly
- Initiating process improvement & cost saving in technical and soft services
- Tracking with the property team regarding EB, DG, AHU Operation & Maintenance activities
- Conducting scheduled training and monthly meetings for M&E, BMS, HK & Security personnel
- Ensure all relevant documents about the engineering operations of the facility are available for audit
- Responsible for Budget & Provisions processing
- Effective monitoring of all housekeeping /Technical/pantry/stationery consumables and ensuring reordering to avoid stockouts
- Dealing with emails and giving feedback/reply to the clients after completion of the job
- Prepared the MMR report and gave the presentation with the client manager
- Attended all training classes and weekly con-calls along with all sites
- Pre-Planning arrangement for pot lunch and team lunch
- Assigning the job to the technical & soft service persons and making the job done
Operation Manager
Horvert Facility Management Pvt Ltd
Chennai
01.2019 - 09.2019
- Responsible for continuous improvements plans and value-added services
- Co-Ordinate with the entire facility team to drive the operation smoothly
- Every month attended the monthly review meeting with clients and prepared the discussion points as MOM and fulfilled the required things within the target date
- Frequently visited the client places and cross-check the manpower presence, in case we have to observe any manpower shortage, immediately take the necessary action to deploy the person
- Invoice has been submitted to the client on a mentioned date and getting the payments before the due date
- Supporting to the management for getting the new business
- Co-Ordinate with our employees to rectify their problems and fulfilled the required things
Asst Facility Manager
Cushman & Wakefield Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2015 - 12.2018
Facility Executive – Technical& Soft Service
Jones Lang Lassalle
Chennai
09.2012 - 10.2014
Shift Engineer (Customer service & Operation)
CUSHMAN& WAKEFIELD PVT Ltd
Chennai
01.2011 - 09.2012
- Maintaining the 4 no’s of 2000KVA Transformers and also maintain the 3no’s of 2000 KVA DG & 1no of 1500 KVA DG
- Maintaining of UPS Systems(12X400 KVA,4X200 KVA,2X120 KVA) and Battery Banks
- Maintaining the PAC unit, Split unit, and SMPS
- Maintain the IDC Block, UPS room, and Battery rooms temperature with spec level
- Power source given to server racks
- Monitoring & recording PM schedules for UPS, PAC, Package, and Split units
- Recording the daily power consumption, incident, and work activities
Data Centre Facility Supervisor (Customer service & Operation)
Turnkey Electrical Engineers PVT Ltd
Chennai
06.2009 - 12.2010
Quality control Engineer
Eltron Electricals
Chennai
03.2008 - 04.2009
Quality control Engineer
Venture power system Pvt ltd.
06.2005 - 02.2008
Education
Diploma of Engineering - D.E.E.E (Electrical& Electronics Engineering)
Valivalam desikar polytechnic College
Nagapattinam05.2005
Hr. sec. education -
National hr. sec. school
Mannargudi05.2002
Matriculation -
National hr. sec. school
Mannargudi05.2000
Skills
- Admin & Facility Management
- Infrastructure Maintenance
- Technical
- DATA Centre Maintenance
- Soft service
- AMC
- Vendor management
- Asset Management
- Space Management
- Key Management
- Event Management & Cafeteria Management
- Security
- Petty Cash Management
- BMS
- CCTV
- FAS
- Billing & Invoice process
- Budget preparation for a financial year
- Payment follow-up
- MMR & MIS Reports
- Taking care of Employees Salary
- Leave and attendance
Extracurricular Activities
Member of Junior Red Cross. Active Cricket player in college.
Languages
- English
- Tamil
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 11/16/84
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Disclaimer
I, A.ARUL BASS hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Facility Manager
EFC Office Infra
10.2019 - Current
Operation Manager
Horvert Facility Management Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 09.2019
Asst Facility Manager
Cushman & Wakefield Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 12.2018
Facility Executive – Technical& Soft Service
Jones Lang Lassalle
09.2012 - 10.2014
Shift Engineer (Customer service & Operation)
CUSHMAN& WAKEFIELD PVT Ltd
01.2011 - 09.2012
Data Centre Facility Supervisor (Customer service & Operation)
Turnkey Electrical Engineers PVT Ltd
06.2009 - 12.2010
Quality control Engineer
Eltron Electricals
03.2008 - 04.2009
Quality control Engineer
Venture power system Pvt ltd.
06.2005 - 02.2008
Diploma of Engineering - D.E.E.E (Electrical& Electronics Engineering)
Valivalam desikar polytechnic College
Hr. sec. education -
National hr. sec. school
Matriculation -
National hr. sec. school