The building operations supporter — coordinating facility maintenance, services, and administrative functions.
As a Facilities Operations Coordinator, you support facilities management by coordinating maintenance activities, managing service requests, handling vendor relationships, and ensuring building operations run smoothly. You're the coordination hub for facility services.
Your day involves scheduling and coordination. You might process work orders, then coordinate vendor service visits, then track maintenance completion, then communicate with building occupants, then prepare facilities reports. You're ensuring facilities services happen when and where they're needed.
The hardest part is managing expectations across many stakeholders. Building occupants all want fast service; maintenance has limited capacity. You need to prioritize effectively while maintaining good relationships. The people who thrive here are organized, communicative, and enjoy helping others work in comfortable environments.
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Median pay for a Facilities Operations Manager (facilities Ops Manager) Coordinator is about $105K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $63K to $173K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Monitoring, Critical Thinking, and Active Listening.
Most people in this role hold a postsecondary certificate.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 3.8% through 2034, with roughly 141,090 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Facilities Operations Manager (Facilities Ops Manager), Facilities Manager, and Maintenance Superintendent.
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