Facilities Systems Administrator
ESFM® USA · Gaithersburg, MD · 5 mo ago
Information Technology$75k–$80k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- System Administration: Administer and maintain the FM: Systems platform, including system configuration, user setup, permissions, workflows, forms, and module support.
- Platform Support: Provide day-to-day support for FM: Systems users, troubleshoot system issues, manage incidents, and resolve application defects or data problems in a timely manner.
- Configuration and Enhancement: Configure and optimize FM: Systems modules to support business processes such as space management, room reservations, move management, maintenance coordination, asset tracking, and workplace services.
- Data Management: Maintain high-quality facility and workplace data, including space, occupancy, floor plans, assets, locations, and employee assignments. Perform regular audits and validation to ensure data integrity.
- CAD / Floor Plan Coordination: Support the management of floor plans, drawings, and space data integrations with CAD or related drawing systems used within FM:Systems.
- Reporting and Analytics: Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, standard reports, ad hoc queries, and KPIs to support facilities and workplace decision-making.
- System Integration: Coordinate and support integrations between FM: Systems and other enterprise platforms such as HR systems, ERP systems, Active Directory, ticketing tools, building systems, and reporting platforms.
- Testing and Release Support: Support system upgrades, patches, configuration changes, and new feature rollouts through proper testing, documentation, and change control practices.
- Documentation and Training: Create and maintain system documentation, SOPs, training guides, and knowledge articles. Train end users and business stakeholders on FM:Systems functionality and best practices.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Facilities Management, Corporate Real Estate, Workplace Experience, IT, and vendors to gather requirements, prioritize enhancements, and implement solutions.
- Governance and Compliance: Support system governance, security administration, audit readiness, and compliance with internal policies related to data management and access control.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Facilities Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2-3+ years of experience administering an IWMS, with direct hands-on expertise in the application FM:Systems.
- Experience configuring and supporting one or more FM:Systems functional areas such as space management, occupancy, move management, reservations, maintenance, or workplace services.
- Strong understanding of facilities management, corporate real estate, and workplace operations processes.
- Experience with system administration, user security, configuration, workflow support, and troubleshooting and push pull systems integrations of critically dependent software solutions.
- Experience working with data imports, exports, validation, and data quality management.
- Strong reporting skills, including experience with SQL, reporting tools, dashboards, or business intelligence platforms.
- Familiarity with CAD drawings, BIM, space data management, and floor plan coordination in relation to workplace systems.
- Experience supporting enterprise application integrations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.
- Being flexible and able to manage the working hours based on priority projects taking place on site.
- Be available on site as the POC when vendors/ contractors are working on site for projects you are part of.
- Submit monthly Space Management report to the client
- Ability to benchmark and analyze scalable metrics across the portfolio.
- Support in the creation of presentations for highly visible projects for a wide range audience containing but not limited to block/stacking plans, workplace standards, agile work environments and complex project phasing.
Key Skills
- Use of the Application, FM:Systems in an administrative capacity or comparable IWMS software
- SC Logic software integration
- SFTP and file integration management
- IWMS platform support
- Space and occupancy management
- Applying and maintaining space types, space specifications and standards
- Facilities and workplace process knowledge
- Reporting and analytics
- Data governance and data quality
- System integration
- User training and stakeholder support
- Troubleshooting and issue resolution
- Documentation and change management