Studio Facilities and Asset Manager Film Studio (SPA )

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Studio Facilities and Asset Manager for its Film Studio operations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is responsible for the operational oversight of the Film Studio's physical assets, ensuring all facilities, including soundstages, workshops, backlots, offices, utilities, and supporting infrastructure, are safe, functional, compliant, and production-ready. The role involves managing facilities, tracking asset performance, coordinating vendors, planning maintenance, and ensuring operational readiness during both activation and steady-state studio operations. The position requires 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all studio facilities, including soundstages, workshops, backlots, offices, support spaces, and infrastructure, remain operational and production-ready.
• Oversee preventive and reactive maintenance activities, covering MEP services, utilities, cleaning, waste management, and general site upkeep.
• Manage facilities contractors, technical service providers, and specialist vendors, ensuring compliance with 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.

Performance Indicators

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in 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 is preferred.

Technical and 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.