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Building Engineer

ABM Industries

  • Sacramento, CA
  • 3 days ago
  • $35–$42 Per Hour

Highlights

This role performs preventive and corrective maintenance activities and works collaboratively with facility teams and service providers to ensure continuous operations and equipment reliability. Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting commercial building systems, mission-critical infrastructure, data center environments, or industrial facilities.

Numbers & Facts

LocationSacramento, CA
IndustryBusiness Services - Other
Salary$35–$42 Per Hour
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1909
Websitehttp://www.abm.com/

Description

Overview

The Building Engineer supports the reliable operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of mission-critical facility systems. This role performs preventive and corrective maintenance activities and works collaboratively with facility teams and service providers to ensure continuous operations and equipment reliability.

Pay: $35 - $42 per hour
The pay listed is the hourly range or the hourly rate for this position.   A specific offer will vary based on the applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

Benefit Information: 
ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visitABM Team Member Benefits | Front Line Team Members| (Programa de Beneficios de ABM)

Key responsibilities include reliable operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of mission-critical building systems that support continuous facility operations. The Building Engineer performs preventative and corrective maintenance on electrical, mechanical, HVAC, plumbing, and life safety systems while ensuring compliance with established operating procedures and safety standards. The position requires strong technical expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to respond effectively to operational events in a high-availability environment.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

  • Maintain and repair facility electrical, mechanical, HVAC, and support systems 
  • Conduct routine rounds and inspections of critical equipment 
  • Monitor building systems through BMS and other monitoring platforms 
  • Investigate equipment abnormalities and perform troubleshooting activities 
  • Support planned maintenance activities and infrastructure testing programs 
  • Execute work orders and preventive maintenance tasks through CMMS systems 
  • Coordinate with vendors during maintenance and repair activities 
  • Document equipment status, maintenance activities, and operational events 
  • Assist with facility audits, compliance requirements, and safety initiatives 
  • Support continuous improvement efforts related to equipment reliability and operational performance 
  • Follow approved change control procedures during maintenance activities 
  • Maintain compliance with operational and safety standards

Qualifications

Education & Experience Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • Proven experience with BMS and CMMS platforms; familiarity with Corrigo and ServiceNow preferred
  • Experience supporting UPS systems, generators, switchgear, CRAC/CRAH units, or critical cooling infrastructure preferred.
  • Certifications preferred: Stationary Engineer, HVAC, EPA 608 (Universal), OSHA 10/30, NFPA 70E
  • Technical school background in mission-critical operations, high-performance manufacturing, or military operations preferred
  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting commercial building systems, mission-critical infrastructure, data center environments, or industrial facilities

About Company

ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.

We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.

Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.

Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.

With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.

With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.

ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)

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