ABM Industries, Inc.
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This role ensures maintenance is planned, executed, documented, and continuously improved.
The pay listed is the salaried range for this position. A specific offer will vary based on the applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.
Benefits: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management.
The Engineering Operations Manager will work closely with technical teams, vendors, safety partners, and client stakeholders. This role ensures maintenance is planned, executed, documented, and continuously improved. In a high-reliability environment, the Operations / Engineering Manager will be expected to apply mechanical expertise, field leadership, and disciplined execution to strengthen uptime, safety, reliability, and facility performance.
Lead daily mechanical facilities operations, maintenance execution, troubleshooting, and system performance in a high-reliability environment
Oversee critical mechanical infrastructure, including HVAC, chillers, boilers, cooling towers, pumps, air handlers, make-up air units, process exhaust, compressed air, process vacuum, process cooling water, and related utilities
Ensure controlled-environment systems meet required temperature, humidity, pressure, airflow, cleanliness, and performance standards
Lead troubleshooting, escalation, and root cause analysis for system failures, recurring issues, and operational risks
Participate in site escalation and incident response, including occasional after-hours support as needed
Coordinate technicians, engineers, planners, vendors, and subcontractors to ensure safe, high-quality field execution
Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for assigned mechanical and critical facility systems
Partner with CMMS/EAM, planning, and reliability teams to improve work orders, PMs, job plans, asset records, maintenance history, and documentation quality
Monitor equipment performance, PM compliance, backlog, recurring failures, and maintenance KPIs to identify reliability and productivity improvements
Support shutdowns, planned outages, major maintenance events, infrastructure upgrades, and capital improvement projects
Maintain compliance with safety, LOTO, environmental, cleanroom, hazardous material, contractor safety, permitting, and client-specific work control requirements
Manage vendor and subcontractor execution, including scope alignment, technical review, safety compliance, cost awareness, and service quality
Serve as the day-to-day technical contact for mechanical operations, maintenance performance, schedules, risks, and service delivery
Coach and develop operations, engineering, maintenance, and technical staff to strengthen accountability, safety, reliability, and customer service
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related technical field preferred; equivalent technical, trade, military, or operational experience may be considered
5+ years of experience in facilities operations, plant engineering, maintenance management, utilities, or critical infrastructure operations
Experience leading engineers, technicians, maintenance teams, vendors, or subcontractors in an operations or maintenance environment
Strong mechanical systems experience, including HVAC, chilled water, boilers, pumps, air handling systems, process exhaust, compressed air, process cooling, vacuum, and related utilities
Experience in semiconductor, cleanroom, advanced manufacturing, pharmaceutical, laboratory, data center, or other high-reliability environments preferred
Working knowledge of BAS/BMS platforms, PLC-based controls, alarms, trends, and mechanical system monitoring
Experience with CMMS / EAM platforms such as Maximo or similar systems, including work order management, asset data, PM programs, maintenance history, planning, and KPI reporting
Ability to lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, reliability improvement, and maintenance optimization efforts
Knowledge of OSHA, LOTO, environmental compliance, hazardous materials, cleanroom protocols, contractor safety, and work control processes
Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with clients, senior leaders, engineers, technicians, vendors, and cross-functional teams
Ability to prioritize effectively in a high-reliability environment where uptime, safety, communication, and execution discipline are critical
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, reporting tools, maintenance dashboards, CMMS systems, and technical documentation
Certifications such as CFM, CPMM, CEM, OSHA 30, Lean Six Sigma, or reliability/maintenance planning credentials are a plus
Strong understanding of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, and reliability practices
Experience supporting operating budgets, repair planning, vendor contracts, subcontractor coordination, and capital project execution
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