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.

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.

• 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

• 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…