Facilities & Maintenance Manager

American Iron and Metal

$80K — $95K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in Facilities Maintenance management.
  • Strong understanding of commercial/industrial facilities and contract management.
  • Experience in budget management and service contracts preferred.
  • Proven planning, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Familiarity with maintenance management systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise daily maintenance activities across facilities and infrastructure.
  • Develop and execute preventive maintenance programs for facility systems.
  • Oversee maintenance and compliance of truck and rail scales.
  • Maintain facility grounds and ensure safety and traffic signage is adequate.
  • Coordinate inspections of drainage and filtration systems with EHS personnel.
  • Manage facility service contracts and vendor agreements.
  • Administer maintenance work orders and capital improvement projects.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a diverse team in facility operations.
  • Involvement with regulatory compliance and safety leadership initiatives.
  • Exposure to project management with capital improvements.
  • Collaboration across multiple departments including Operations and HR.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsible for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance of all company facilities,
infrastructure, and site assets. The Facilities Maintenance Manager leads facility maintenance
personnel, manages contractors, plans preventive maintenance, administers facility-related
budgets and service agreements, and ensures company sites remain operational, compliant, and
professional in appearance while supporting uninterrupted operations.

What you're responsible for:
  • Supervise all daily facilities maintenance activities across buildings, grounds, and site infrastructure.
  • Develop and execute preventive maintenance programs for facility systems including HVAC, plumbing, electrical systems, lighting, generators, compressors, and utility infrastructure.
  • Oversee maintenance, calibration coordination, and vendor support for truck scales, rail scales, and floor scales to ensure reliable operation and regulatory compliance.
  • Maintain facility grounds including fencing, gates, barriers, guardrails, landscaping, parking lots, employee walkways, and traffic flow systems.
  • Ensure all traffic signage, directional signage, speed control devices, pedestrian markings, safety signage, emergency evacuation maps, and visual controls remain accurate, visible, and in good condition.
  • Oversee exterior and interior lighting systems, ensuring adequate illumination for production, transportation routes, parking areas, and security requirements.
  • Coordinate inspection, cleaning, repair, and regulatory compliance of stormwater collection, drainage, and filtration systems while partnering with Environmental and EHS personnel.
  • Coordinate fire lane access, emergency exits, fire extinguishers, hydrant accessibility, bollards, and other facility requirements supporting emergency response and code compliance.
  • Plan and coordinate painting projects including buildings, safety markings, curbs, structural steel, equipment supports, traffic striping, and other facility appearance improvements.
  • Coordinate inspection and maintenance of rail infrastructure including rail tracks, crossings, unloading areas, and contractor support for specialized repairs.
  • Identify, prioritize, and coordinate concrete repairs involving roadways, equipment pads, loading areas, sidewalks, foundations, and employee walking surfaces to reduce safety hazards and operational interruptions.
  • Administer facility service contracts, leases, and vendor agreements including building leases, janitorial services, pest control, landscaping, security systems, waste services, utilities, and specialized contractors. Monitor contract performance and renewal schedules.
  • Manage maintenance work orders, contractor scheduling, maintenance inventory, budgets, and capital improvement projects while partnering closely with Operations, Transportation, Equipment Maintenance, EHS, Commercial, and HR.


Qualifications

To join our team:

Education/Experience:
  • 7+ years of experience in Facilities Maintenance management.
  • Strong understanding of commercial/industrial buildings, utilities, concrete, fencing, lighting, drainage systems, and contractor management.
  • Experience managing budgets, service contracts, and capital projects preferred.
  • Strong planning, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with a maintenance management systems preferred.

Language Skills:
  • Will be required to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos, to write correspondence, memos, and schedules; to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to guests, clients, and fellow staff.

Mathematical Skills:
  • Strong math skills required.

Reasoning Ability:
  • Problem solving, reasoning, and "thinking out of the box" will be a constant requirement; in addition, applying common sense understanding to better serve our guests' needs.

Physical Demands:
  • Prolonged periods of walking and standing.
  • Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds at a time.
  • Consistently sits, climbs, balances, stoops, kneels, crawls, or crouches.
  • Physically able to conduct inspections and carry equipment used for inspections.
  • Extended periods of reaching with hands and arms.
  • Consistently turning and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs

Vision Requirements:
  • Regularly uses close, distance, color, and peripheral vision as well as depth perception. Ability to adjust focus.

Environment/Noise:
  • Often works outdoors in both hot and cold temperatures.
  • Occasionally works in wet areas

Job Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Preferences
  • Regulatory compliance experience
  • Safety leadership
  • Must have strong cross-functional coordination and customer service.
  • Thorough understanding of or the ability to quickly learn production operations and machinery.
  • Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
  • Must have strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask.
  • Must display strong motivation and resourcefulness; be self-motivated.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
  • Willing to work different shifts and travel up to 75% of the time.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.


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