Regional Director of Operations (Education)
ABM Industries
Lubbock, TX
Overview
The Regional Director of Operations provides leadership to assigned accounts, districts, branches, and or/region – including facility operations for custodial, maintenance, construction, and sustainability. This position directs and oversees staff and is responsible for analyzing procedures, as well as identifying areas where process redesign will enhance accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency.
The ideal candidate for this role will preferably be located in the Lubbock, TX metro area.
Benefit Information:
ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management
Responsibilities
Essential functions, duties & responsibilities of position:
- Recruit, manage, and lead teams with focus on continuous improvement. Select and develop teams of professionals, as well as leaders.
- Influence and support functional strategy; determine, evaluate, and modify goals and the allocation of resources to ensure departmental and organizational goals are met.
- Support, motivate, and promote the team by building a positive and thriving team environment.
- Plan, monitor, and schedule facility modifications, designs and develops of building space allocation.
- Direct overall department processes for integration of services and systems.
- Participate in facilities planning processes and direct the implementation of strategic direction.
- Direct initiatives to improve quality performance and customer service.
- Ensure a safe and secure environment to meet customer needs and comply with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain daily and weekly labor management control.
- Identify, analyze, and review issues; document and report any issues.
- Prepare plans for long range improvement projects to maintain infrastructure.
- Maintain accountability for area budgeting, including selection installation, and replacement of materials and equipment.
- Implement preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
- Special projects and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Experience:
- 7 to 10 years of experience in a facilities maintenance or janitorial services environment, including management.
Other:
- Ability to effectively lead a staff of direct reports. Proven track record as an effective manager in a high-performance organization, success as a builder of collaborative, high-performance teams whose management style is characterized as results orientation.
- Must know the city, state and federal laws and regulations that affect company business and know what licenses are required to operate the business.
- Self-starter and works well independently and as part of a team.
- Understanding of all facets of facilities roles.
- Ability to develop and conduct effective health, safety and environmental training programs and meetings.
- Skilled in project management, problem-solving techniques and communicating ideas and instructions clearly.
- Skilled in directing activities and operations of others, including activities involving hazardous situations.
- Can quickly dive deep on business challenges and formulate then as data and analytics problems that can be solved by standard approaching using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
- Skills in relationship-building, teamwork, and collaboration.
- Positive attitude with a strong desire to learn and a continuous improvement mind-set.
- Strong working knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft Office products.
- Comfortable with routinely shifting demands.
- Working knowledge of general office equipment.
- Ability to prioritize projects and execute and deliver key objectives in a timely manner under tight deadlines.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-oriented environment.
- Meticulous attention to detail, self-motivated, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
ABM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
ABM is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
About the Company
ABM Industries
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)