About this role
Engineering Operations Manager
ABM Industries
United States
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.
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
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Lead daily mechanical facilities operations, maintenance execution, troubleshooting, and system performance in a high-reliability environment
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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
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Ensure controlled-environment systems meet required temperature, humidity, pressure, airflow, cleanliness, and performance standards
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Lead troubleshooting, escalation, and root cause analysis for system failures, recurring issues, and operational risks
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Participate in site escalation and incident response, including occasional after-hours support as needed
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Coordinate technicians, engineers, planners, vendors, and subcontractors to ensure safe, high-quality field execution
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Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for assigned mechanical and critical facility systems
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Partner with CMMS/EAM, planning, and reliability teams to improve work orders, PMs, job plans, asset records, maintenance history, and documentation quality
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Monitor equipment performance, PM compliance, backlog, recurring failures, and maintenance KPIs to identify reliability and productivity improvements
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Support shutdowns, planned outages, major maintenance events, infrastructure upgrades, and capital improvement projects
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Maintain compliance with safety, LOTO, environmental, cleanroom, hazardous material, contractor safety, permitting, and client-specific work control requirements
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Manage vendor and subcontractor execution, including scope alignment, technical review, safety compliance, cost awareness, and service quality
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Serve as the day-to-day technical contact for mechanical operations, maintenance performance, schedules, risks, and service delivery
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Coach and develop operations, engineering, maintenance, and technical staff to strengthen accountability, safety, reliability, and customer service
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Position Type: Full Time