Facilities Specialist / Coordinator

Career Area: Business Management and Operations

Occupation Group: Property and Facilities Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Facilities Specialist / Coordinator earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $43,117

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $45,966

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

In charge of building and equipment maintenance, building security systems, emergency plans, often for specific buildings only. May be involved in planning of new facilities. Acts as contact person between employees and outside contractors.

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 Specialist / Coordinator is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Physical Abilities: Physical Abilities, which refers to the ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. These abilities often require strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Repair: Restoration of a broken, damaged, or failed device, equipment, part, or property to an acceptable operating or usable condition or state.
• 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.
• Facility Management: Facility management (or facilities management or FM) is a professional management discipline focused upon the efficient and effective delivery of support services for the organizations that it serves.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Facilities Specialist / Coordinator that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Facility Operation: Facility management (or facilities management or FM) is a professional management discipline focused upon the efficient and effective delivery of support services for the organizations that it serves.
• Furniture Moving: Working experience of Furniture Moving, which is services for relocations like packing, loading, moving, unloading, unpacking, arranging of items to be shifted. Additional services may include cleaning services for houses, offices or warehousing facilities.
• Equipment Maintenance: Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) involves fixing any sort of mechanical, plumbing, or electrical device should it become out of order or broken (known as repair, unscheduled, casualty or corrective maintenance).
• Snow Removal: Working experience of Snow Removal, which is the job of removing snow after a snowfall to make travel easier and safer.
• General Office Duties: The common duties performed in a typical office. These may include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters, screening solicitors, and other administrative tasks.

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:

• Facilities Coordinator
• Facilities Specialist
• Facility Coordinator
• Assistant Facilities Manager
• Assistant Facility Manager

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Facilities Manager
• Administrative Manager
• Facilities Engineer
• Maintenance Helper / Assistant