Highlights
The role combines hands-on technical engineering oversight with facility management responsibilities, including staff leadership, vendor coordination, budget management, and client relationship management. Pay Rate: $70.00/hour Location: Laguna Hills, CA Key Responsibilities Facility Management Serve as the primary point of contact for the client on all facility operations matters at the Laguna Hills site.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Laguna Hills, CA |
| Industry | Business Services - Other |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1909 |
| Website | http://www.abm.com/ |
Description
ABM Industries is seeking a Facility Manager / Chief Engineer to oversee facility operations and building engineering functions at the TGS site in Laguna Hills. This is a newly established, high-priority position supporting a new client account. The role combines hands-on technical engineering oversight with facility management responsibilities, including staff leadership, vendor coordination, budget management, and client relationship management. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical engineering background paired with facility management skills.
Pay Rate: $70.00/hour
Location: Laguna Hills, CA
Key Responsibilities
Facility Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the client on all facility operations matters at the Laguna Hills site
- Develop and manage the facility operating budget, including capital planning
- Oversee vendor and subcontractor relationships, including bidding, scheduling, and quality control
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations, building codes, and environmental standards
- Manage preventive maintenance programs and building systems lifecycle planning
- Lead, train, and supervise engineering and maintenance staff
Chief Engineer / Technical Oversight
- Oversee operation, maintenance, and repair of building systems including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, life safety, and building automation systems
- Diagnose and resolve complex mechanical and electrical issues
- Ensure all engineering work complies with applicable codes and standards
- Manage energy efficiency initiatives and system optimization
- Respond to and manage emergency facility issues as needed
Qualifications
- Minimum 5-7 years of progressive facility management and/or chief engineer experience, ideally in commercial or corporate environments
- Strong working knowledge of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and building automation systems
- Prior supervisory or team leadership experience
- Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., Universal EPA, BOMA, CFM, CPM, or state-specific engineering licenses)
- Strong client-facing communication skills
- Budget management experience
- Ability to respond to on-call emergencies as needed
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)