Facilities manager

A facilities manager oversees the buildings and physical infrastructure an organization occupies, keeping them safe, functional, and efficient. They manage maintenance and repairs, oversee space planning, vendors, and contracts, ensure safety and compliance, manage budgets, and handle everything from heating and security to renovations — keeping the physical workplace running.

The role blends operations, maintenance oversight, and project management, central to organizations with significant physical space. Facilities managers work across industries and at large organizations.

The job suits organized, practical, hands-on people who enjoy managing physical spaces and solving building problems, like the mix of operations, vendors, and projects, and want a role responsible for the buildings and infrastructure that everyone else depends on.