Assistant Facility Manager

About the role

The Assistant Facility Manager at BGIS is responsible for directing maintenance team activities on basic electrical or mechanical systems to ensure uptime and compliance with best practices. They also provide leadership, exemplify BGIS values, and manage projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Complete assigned projects by utilizing appropriate resources effectively and balancing client requirements with company strategies.
• Define client project requirements and determine and facilitate the usage of resources, internal and external, required for the project.
• Manage projects successfully to completion by implementing a project schedule as a project and client management visibility tool, and establishing the schedule to meet or exceed client requirements.
• Provide ongoing updates to internal team and clients regarding project status and progress.
• Work to balance competing client production priorities and negotiate compromises among projects.
• Ensure all projects performed safely and in accordance with company safety policies and procedures.
• Oversee the document management process to ensure procedures and standards are established, maintained, and performed.
• Capture all customer impacting and non-customer impacting events to become more equipped and proactive and preventative with Problem/Incident Management (PIM).
• Maintain compliance by capturing and consolidating training into a single system and producing high-level reporting.
• Establish key performance indicators and key factors to be used in the measurement and verification phase.
• Diagnose and repair complex control systems malfunctions requiring extensive knowledge of a variety of electronic or digital controls systems and ability to test and write modifications in multiple languages of systems software.
• Provide proposals for retrofits, upgrades, and/or enhancements to existing equipment.
• Document, manage, and appropriately escalate project and customer issues and concerns.
• Evaluate industry standards as new standards emerge for best practices and closely coordinate these potential opportunities with clients and share all applicable information abroad.
• Ability to clearly explain technical information internally and externally to the customer.

Requirements

• RECOMMENDED EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES: Bachelor’s degree in business, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Engineering or equivalent field of study or work experience.
• Minimum five years' experience in facility management or related field.
• Five years' experience in critical electrical industry preferred.
• Eight years of journeyman level HVAC or electrical experience preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency for all the responsibilities of a critical facilities engineer.
• Expert knowledge of data center operations and system configurations.
• Knowledge of building infrastructure systems.
• Working knowledge of typical mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and life safety systems associated to the industry preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build and train teams.
• Professional affiliations preferred (24x7, IFMA, and Data Center Pulse).
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook and Visio along with working knowledge of SharePoint.

Qualifications

• Qualified candidates must possess the following:

Skills

• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of building infrastructure systems.
• Experience with data center operations and system configurations.
• Ability to diagnose and repair complex control systems.
• Ability to communicate technical information effectively.

Benefits

Our company culture includes a robust mix of sound business practices and employee initiatives that promote personal and professional development, work/life balance, health and wellness, and community involvement. The Company is an equal opportunity employer. We believe every employee has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, ancestry, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, or Veteran or military status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by local, state or federal law in the relevant jurisdiction.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in this posting.

Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in this posting.

Contact Information

To learn more about this position, visit us online at https://www.bgis.com/us/careers/.