Facility Manager

Job Description

Responsible for assisting local regional and national management with the execution of store maintenance at 200 plus corporately occupied locations.  Responsibilities will include assessing and determining corrective action for facilities management, while both proactively and reactively address facility maintenance, improvements, enhancements and up-keep.  This position will need to work within a job specific budget and department budget annually including assessing priority maintenance and establishing national and/or regional vendors to accomplish each project.

• Partner across the organization through regional management to assess and determine corrective action on all facility issues including both individual retail units, corporate offices. 
• Work within the Repair & Maintenance System (RMS) to allow for scheduling and tracking of all facility maintenance and repair requests.
• Reactively address needs by ordering parts and services in some situations for all locations.
• Proactively establish a maintenance program for facilities that can be performed within a budget and will establish a short and long-term ROI.
• Establish, negotiate, document & maintain the various vendor relationships either locally, regionally or nationally who can provide maintenance and repairs to our corporate managed facilities.  Promote/communicate to management and store personnel the preferred action to be taken along with solid rationale for the recommendation.  Work with store operations on allowing vendors that participate on our fleet program the opportunity to bid jobs.
• Participate in relevant vendor, store operations and franchise operations meetings and discussions.
• Track department spends historical data and compares it to the budget showing the value created by the facility maintenance department.  This analysis should be transparent and data driven to add value for future budget and cost assessments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction or Property Management , Manufacturing, or General Business preferred
• Demonstrated vendor management and project management preferred
• Minimum 5 years of business experience showing progressive responsibilities
• Experience in Facility Management preferred
• Basic knowledge on general construction preferred
• Excellent communications skills, both oral and written and proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of options in varying situations
• High level of energy and creativity

Additional Information

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.