Facilities Engineering Manager

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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A typical Facilities Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $91,895

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $94,532

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Responsible for the supervision and coordination of assigned engineering support activities. Provides direct supervision for staff under HVAC, Electrical, Controls, Plumbing and General Maintenance. Ensures the successful delivery of engineering projects and services.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Facilities Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Preventive Maintenance: Machine maintenance or the preventive maintenance (PM) has the following meanings: The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
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Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Repair: Restoration of a broken, damaged, or failed device, equipment, part, or property to an acceptable operating or usable condition or state.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Facilities Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Capital Expenditures: Capital expenditure or capital expense (CAPEX) is the money a company spends to buy, maintain, or improve its fixed assets, such as buildings, vehicles, equipment, or land.
• Lean Manufacturing: Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply lean, is a systematic method for waste minimization (Muda) within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity.
• Total productive maintenance: Working experience of Total productive maintenance, which is a system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems through the machines, equipment, processes, and employees that add business value to an organization.
• Boilers: A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated.
• Maintenance Coordination: Planned preventive maintenance (PPM), more commonly referred to as simply planned maintenance (PM) or scheduled maintenance, is any variety of scheduled maintenance to an object or item of equipment.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Engineering Activities: Working experience of Engineering Activities, which includes all activities or functions of an engineer, invloving the application of science and mathematics to the design, manufacture or maintenance of complex products.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Plant Engineering Manager
• Chief Bldg Engineer Supervisor
• Facilities Engineering Manager
• Hotel Chief Engineer
• Maintenance Engineering Manager

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