WHAT IS A FACILITIES MAINTENANCE MANAGER ?
The Facilities Maintenance Manager leads a dedicated team of manufacturing engineers and technicians, directing daily initiatives that prioritize safety, quality, and maintenance. This pivotal role involves strategic collaboration with external vendors to facilitate the expansion of the manufacturing facilities while ensuring compliance with all regulatory safety standards. Responsibilities also include managing support for building and grounds, coordinating with contracted EHS staff, and maintaining essential systems.
Need-to-Know Overview of a Facilities Maintenance Manager
1. Facilities Maintenance Manager Duties and Roles
- Ensure the safety of all associates
- Track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Recommend and implement safety and savings initiatives to improve the work environment for all employees
- Develop and maintain the budget for all ongoing facilities projects
- Provide direct oversight of hazardous waste disposal, shipping, preparation and storage
- Plan and monitor appropriate facility management staffing levels
- Ensure efficient utilization of facility maintenance staff
- Performance manage, develop and train staff
- Prepare and track facility budget
- Monitor expenses and payments
- Generate and present regular reports and reviews of facility-related budgets, finances, contracts, expenditures and purchases
- Develop and implement cost reduction initiatives
- Monitor energy efficiency
- Monitor response levels to requests and issues from facility occupants
- May be on-call after regular scheduled hours
- Required education, experience, training
2. Facilities Maintenance Manager Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience within Facilities and Maintenance management
- Experience in working with facility control systems, HVAC, electrical, building and grounds, maintenance and equipment repair
- Working knowledge of municipal codes & regulations involving construction, fire, safety, sanitation, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on various facilities management projects simultaneously, strong willingness to achieve goals being self-directed
- Experience managing building surveillance and badge security systems, implementation and maintenance.
- Prior experience managing high volume account
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- P&L Management
- Client Relations and Customer Service Oriented
- Team leadership Abilities; Staffing Recruiting, Development and Relations
- Planning, Organization & System Know-how