Facilities Manager Careers

Work Environment:

As a facilities manager, you'd check that buildings and services fulfill the requirements of their clients and residents as economically, efficiently and safely as possible.

Being a facilities manager, you can work in the private/public sector, and can have a different job designation like contracts manager, business services manager or support services manager.

Based on your job, your tasks would change, although would generally comprise:

• ensuring that IT systems like faxes, computers, photocopiers and telephones, operate efficiently
• administering office transfers, refurbishment and renovations
• transacting the finest deals with suppliers and contractors

• handling usual repairs and maintenance
• administering security
• ensuring that the building fulfills legal regulations, and health and safety measures
• administering facilities like parking, cleaning, catering and waste disposal
• ensuring that the building's interior is organized to do the best usage of area
• handling budgets and maintaining records of expenditure
• giving advices regarding energy efficiency

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You'd require technical abilities associated to property and related managerial abilities, like people management, business strategy, and cost and budget control. You can acquire these by one or additional modes given as below:

• related vocational qualifications, like chartered surveyor or hospitality-professional
• BTEC: HND or a degree into facilities management
• HND or Degree with subjects like business studies and management
• work experience into an associated area, like health-care, construction, hospitality, building services, accountancy or engineering

For this mode, you might not necessitate official qualifications in facilities management; though, you can improve related skills by accomplishing the ILM (Institution of Leadership and Management) Third Level Diploma or Certificate into Facilities Management. For information, check the website of BIFM (British Institution of Facilities Management).

You may accomplish also distance learning or part time Masters-Degrees/diplomas after achieving related experience or a degree. These might assist you to advance into your profession.

Few training courses are acknowledged through the BIFM. For information about acknowledged courses, see the website of BIFM.

You'd discover health and safety qualifications helpful, like qualifications provided by IOSH and NEBOSH. These might be significant for few jobs.

You might also be capable to gain entry to this profession by a scheme of Traineeship. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees

Training Details:

When you're working as a facilities manager, you may accomplish the ILM or BIFM qualifications given as below:

• Third Level Diploma or Certificate
• Fourth Level Diploma or Certificate
• Fifth Level Diploma or Certificate
• Sixth Level Diploma or Certificate

Short training courses provided by BIFM are accessible with all factors of facilities management. Being an associate of BIFM you'd be capable to go to conferences and CPD (continuing professional development) program.

Being a surveyor having RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) membership, you could utilize the designation Chartered Facilities-Management Surveyor given you fulfills the RICS requirements. For information, check the website of RICS.

Skills and knowledge:

• IT abilities
• the capability to handle big budgets
• excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• technical understanding of building-services
• managerial and problem resolving skills
• client and customer management abilities
• management abilities
• the capability to build up working relations with different people
• excellent organizational abilities
• the capability to administer a complex and varied work load

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Annual earnings of facilities managers can be about £26,000 to £46,000.
• Regional/superior facilities managers can get £61,000 or above.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for about 41 hours, generally 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sometimes you might be required to work for extended hours, e.g. to handle emergencies.

You'd be working within office, although you might need to do traveling, particularly in big, multi site firms.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with various associations as a facilities manager. Then again, you can work with contractors, or with big multi service firms which give management, design, finance and build services.

By experience you can advance to a regional/senior management position.

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