Director of Integrated Facilities - ABM Industries

Overview

Pay:  $165,000 - $185,000

The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

You may be eligible to participate in a Company incentive or bonus program.

Benefits:  ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 2024 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management

401(k) – You become eligible to make personal contributions beginning the first of the month following 30 days of employment. You become eligible for the ABM match beginning the first of the month following six months of employment. ABM matches your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, dollar for dollar, for the first 3%. For the next 2%, ABM contributes $0.50 for each dollar you contribute. Your contributions and match are immediately vested.

Position Summary

This position is accountable for providing optimal customer relations and facility management for the assigned facility in a cost-effective manner. Also responsible for overall contract customer satisfaction, service delivery levels and financial performance to ensure they meet or exceed contract scope, terms and conditions.

Essential Duties

• Ensures optimal customer relations by maintaining constant communications with customer.  Provides high quality operations and maintenance service to assure proper performance of engineered equipment and building systems and Facility services, including but not limited to, Janitorial, Security, Curbside Management, Transportation.
• Acts as primary liaison with all customer departments, actively ensuring that service is prompt, responsive, effective and that inter- departmental concerns are addressed and resolved.
• Provides regular monthly written status reports to customer and ABM management.  Presents status and/or performance reports as necessary to keep customer management conversant with atypical occurrences, unusual staffing challenges, potential building related interruptions, etc.
• Prepares, recommends, and administers with assistance from Facility Managers, the annual facility budget.  Reports exceptions to customer and ABM management and adjusts budget as necessary.
• Complies with customer and ABM corporate policies (personnel, accounting, technical service, safety and health, ethical conduct, etc.) communicates to subordinates and ensures subordinate compliance.
• Ensures that federal, state and local regulatory requirements are met including DER, OSHA, FLSA, EEO, ADA, etc.
• Schedules and coordinates over-all work priorities.
• Recommends what work should be performed in-house and what work should be subcontracted; consults with ABM corporate and/or external technical resources when making decisions on major changes.
• Ensures that reactive and preventive maintenance activities are appropriately balanced; monitors current and deferred maintenance backlogs; adjusts priorities and/or resources as needed and ensures that deferred maintenance is adequately documented.
• Utilizes maximum capabilities of Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) or customer provided work order control system.
• Develops and/or approves facility quality standards.
• Reviews completed work regularly and ensures that quality standards are met or exceeded to the satisfaction of the customer.
• Negotiates major service contracts (e.g. snow removal, window washing, janitorial, landscaping, etc.); reviews and approves smaller service contracts delegated to subordinates; consults with corporate technical and other staff as appropriate.
• Develops and negotiates minor construction projects as assigned.
• Manages purchasing program; approves major purchases; audits purchasing delegated to subordinates.
• Designs and implements administrative systems where ABM or customer standard systems do not exist or must be extensively modified.
• Ensures through subordinate managers that staff receives adequate technical, administrative and other training; participates in training of direct subordinates and supervisors
• Manages staff in accordance with ABM employee relations philosophy and policies; hires, terminates, recommends salary changes, conducts performance appraisals, counsels and disciplines as necessary; communicates and administers ABM personnel policies.
• If applicable, ensures that labor contract requirements are met; makes routine contract interpretations as required; and maintains a harmonious working relationship with union representatives. Organizes and participates in facility audit activities.

Meets the following criteria, but not limited to:

• Manages and conducts meetings and presentations
• Strong communication skills
• Develops standards, policies & procedures (P&P), and standard operating procedures (SOP’s)
• Train and rollout programs such as preventative maintenance, water management, safety etc.
• Ability to read technical (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) drawings and schematics for an asset/mixed use or otherwise
• Experienced in managing utilities and reporting
• Experienced in managing carbon footprint reduction programs and initiatives
• Experience in leading and rolling out innovation initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering or comparable experience required; Certified Facility Manager or Real Property Administrator certifications desirable for specific assignments.
• Demonstrated customer service orientation and skills.
• Working knowledge of two or more of the mechanical, electrical, general building maintenance, building construction or electronics crafts.  Where there is not a working knowledge, a demonstrated aptitude is required.
• Demonstrated expertise in verbal and written communications.
• Demonstrated willingness to work non-standard days and hours as required.