Overview
The Assistant Facilities Manager is responsible for supporting the operation, maintenance, and reliability of critical facility infrastructure systems. This role assists in ensuring the safe, efficient, and uninterrupted performance of building systems, including HVAC, electrical, mechanical, and related support equipment. The Engineer collaborates with facility management, contractors, and internal stakeholders to maintain operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustainability objectives.
Compensation: $101,750 annual salary (US Dollars)
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
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Key Responsibilities
Own and Run Site Services
Monitor facility systems, including HVAC, electrical, and mechanical systems, to identify potential issues and implement corrective actions.
People Leadership and Workforce Capability
Plan staffing, scheduling, coverage, onboarding/offboarding, training, and workload for assigned employees and service teams.
Build a speak-up culture where employees raise safety, service, workload, and customer concerns early and take ownership for follow-through.
Service Requests, CMMS, and Performance
Own work-order and service-request governance, including intake, priority, dispatch, owner, dependencies, service-level timing, customer updates, evidence, repeat work, and verified closure.
Monitor service levels, aging work, backlog, preventive maintenance, repeat issues, response quality, and customer feedback; identify data gaps and correct them.
Use dashboards, action registers, inspections, and service reviews to surface emerging risks, remove barriers, and track corrective actions to completion.
Keep operating procedures, site records, work history, inspections, action logs, and reporting accurately and audit-ready.
Safety, Compliance, and Risk
Reinforce safe work practices, stop-work expectations, hazard and incident reporting, required training, contractor controls, and site safety requirements.
Coordinate inspections, permits, training records, audit responses, and corrective actions with ABM Safety, HR, Security, and other designated owners.
Lead facilities coordination during urgent incidents by protecting people, setting immediate priorities, notifying the right leaders, engaging qualified responders, communicating status, and tracking recovery actions.
Escalate safety or regulatory threats, critical outages, repeated failures, access disruptions, and other material risks promptly; remain engaged through resolution.
Vendors, Budget, and Commercial Controls
Manage vendor service performance within approved sourcing and contract processes, including scope clarity, access, safety, work quality, schedule, documentation, and performance follow-up.
Monitor operating expenses, labor and overtime, vendor spend, purchase requests, invoice support, accruals, and forecast changes within assigned controls.
Identify service and cost improvements without deferring required maintenance, safety, compliance, or customer needs.
Escalate vendor disputes, contract interpretations, spend outside delegated limits, and requests that could change approved scope or commercial commitments.
Client Partnership, Projects, and Improvement
Coordinate approved workplace changes, moves, events, inspections, projects, and service transitions with clear requirements, ownership, communication, risk controls, readiness checks, and closeout.
Continuity and Cross-Functional Coordination
Coordinate with Building Engineers, technicians, eMobility, Safety, Security, IT, Procurement, Finance, and qualified trades to plan and complete work safely.
Maintain current contacts, escalation paths, decision records, site procedures, coverage plans, and handoff notes needed to sustain service during absences or transitions.
Assist with ensuring specialized engineering, energized electrical, refrigerant, high-voltage or critical-power, fire-alarm or suppression repair, internal EV-charger repair, engineering design, and other licensed work are assigned to qualified owners.
Qualifications
What You'll Bring
Knowledge of relevant regulations, codes, permits, and standards, particularly those related to electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with vendors, contractors, and internal teams.
Working knowledge of CMMS/work-order systems, service-level reporting, vendor and budget controls, and standard office productivity tools.
High school diploma or equivalent. Equivalent technical, military, facilities, or operational leadership experience is considered.
Preferred Skills and Certifications
Physical Requirements:
The Successful Candidate is:
A capable people-leader who sets expectations, gives direct feedback, develops talent, and addresses performance gaps fairly.
Client-centered while protecting ABM reporting lines, approved scope, service levels, and decision rights.
Working Environment & Role Requirements
Operating within a fast-paced, professional account environment, this role may support personnel across multiple locations or functional teams. Depending on business demands and priorities, occasional travel and schedule flexibility will be expected.
Our Standard of Excellence
Every position supporting this client carries a shared expectation: take ownership, uphold the highest standards, adapt with purpose, and deliver work that earns trust. Whether leading teams, managing operations, or executing critical technical work, every individual contributes directly to the safety, reliability, and performance of this account.
Travel Requirements: 10-15%
