Engineering Operations Manager

Overview

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