Engineering Operations Manager

Pay Rate: $185-210/annually

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

ABM (NYSE: ABM) is one of the world’s largest providers of integrated facility, engineering, and infrastructure solutions. Every day, our over 100,000 team members deliver essential services that make spaces cleaner, safer, and efficient, enhancing the overall occupant experience.

ABM serves a wide range of market sectors including commercial real estate, aviation, education, mission critical, and manufacturing and distribution. With over $8 billion in annual revenue and a blue-chip client base, ABM delivers innovative technologies and sustainable solutions that enhance facilities and empower clients to achieve their goals. Committed to creating smarter, more connected spaces, ABM is investing in the future to meet evolving challenges and build a healthier, thriving world. ABM: Driving possibility, together.

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