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How To Hire A Facility Manager

Complete with job descriptions, skill profiles, and interview templates. Use this Facility Manager hiring guide to help you make the right decisions, fast.

Facility Manager Recruitment Guide

What does a Facility Manager do?

A Facility Manager oversees the building and grounds maintenance. This includes overseeing the cleaning services, electrical and plumbing services, and even food and catering services.

Day to day tasks of a Facility Manager

Skills assessment

Facility Manager definition

A Facility Manager’s primary responsibility is to oversee and ensure the maintenance of the whole building and its grounds. They are also responsible for the people working under the different services they oversee. Because of this, they require skills that enable them to work on multiple tasks while maintaining a good working relationship with the staff.

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HIRING PROCESS

Facility Manager Hiring Process

Step 1: Understand the role
Step 2: Source Applicants
Step 3: Skills Assessment
Step 4: Interview
Step 5: Hire

Build the Ideal Candidate Profile​

To find the best person for the role, you need to understand what the role involves. You can complete this with the hiring manager to define the role, its contribution, and the skills needed.

Write A Job Description Based On Skills

Once you understand the requirements for the role, you’ll need to understand the skills for success. You can then write an effective job description to promote your role.

Selecting The Ideal Candidate

See which applicants have the right skills for the role. Send all your applicants a Vervoe skills assessment from the expert library, or customize one for your organization.

Interview Top Performers

Your skills assessment results will identify top performers. Focus your time on interviewing those that have met or exceeded your requirements. Assessment results will also help guide which skill areas to focus on in the interview.

Making An Offer

Once you assess your candidates against these skills, you’re ready to offer the top performer(s). You should base your offer on the value that the candidate would bring to your team and your business as a whole. It is also important to ensure your compensation and benefits packages are competitive in the industry and help you attract and retain the top talent.
Build the ideal candidate profile

Skills needed for a Facility Manager

A Facility Manager must have a good technical background on how a building operates. This will be helpful in understanding what aspects of the building need to be checked. Moreover, a Facility Manager must also be good at working with people as he will be overseeing staff and will closely be working with different workers on a day to day.

Pro Tip

For managerial roles, you may receive less applications compared to entry-level positions. Ensure that you specify the skills and qualifications required for the role, and you can provide details on what it’s like to be successful in the role so that applicants can measure if they are a good fit.

WRITE A JOB DESCRIPTION BASED ON SKILLS

How to write a Facility Manager job description

Once you’ve determined the skills required for the role, you can write the job description to advertise for your position. Here’s what to include in your Facility Manager job description:

Job Title: What position are you hiring for?

Summary: What makes your company unique? What would it be like to work for you?

Responsibilities: An overview of the role’s day-to-day activities, and how the position contributes to the organization

Requirements: Skills a candidate must have to perform the job successfully

Benefits: Details of compensation, benefits, and any perks on offer

Pro Tip

In building your candidate profile, remember you’ve already identified what skills are needed to succeed in the role. Here’s where to list your “must-have” skills and maybe a couple of “nice-to-have” skills. For example, a Facility Manager must be good at multitasking and with people, but it would be nice to have accounting and finance principles.

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SELECTING THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Sample skill tests for a Facility Manager

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Question 1

Communication

Question Type: Text

In this role you will be responsible for communicating with a range of people from trades staff to tenants and owners.
How do you differ your communication style depending on the audience?

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Question 2

Problem Solving

Question Type: Text

You are responsible for managing an aging office building.
What would you do with this building to ensure it’s effectively maintained?

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Question 3

Organization

Question Type: Video

Tell us about a time when you saw an opportunity to improve/create a process.
Describe what it was and what you did.

INTERVIEW TOP PERFORMERS

How to interview a Facility Manager

Once your Vervoe skills assessment has surfaced the most qualified people for your open role, you can focus on interviewing these candidates. The interview should focus on any skills that require development that were highlighted from the skills assessment.

Now you know that candidates can do the job, the interview becomes more of a relationship building exercise where you can get to know the candidate on a more personal level, understand their motivations, and how they would fit in with the team.

Making An Offer

How much does it cost to hire a Facility Manager?

The US average for a Facility manager is $63,681 according to Glassdoor.com, while Salary.com reports it at $104,178. The lowest recorded salary is at $56,000, while the highest is at $126,000. Some companies offer additional pay including cash bonus, tips, incentives, and profit sharing.

Facility Manager Salary United States

Facility Managers’ salaries in the United States range from $56,000 – $126,000. The average falls between $63,000 – $104,000. The salaries can still vary depending on the educational background, years of experience in the profession, additional skills or certifications, and the location.

Facility Manager Salary United Kingdom

Facility Managers’ salaries in the United Kingdom range from £25,000 – £58,000 (GBP). The average falls between £34,000 – £39,000 (GBP). The salaries can still vary depending on the educational background, years of experience in the profession, additional skills or certifications, and the location.

Facility Manager Salary Australia

Facility Managers’ salaries in Australia range from $61,000 – $145,000 (AUD). The average falls between $83,000 – $123,000 (AUD). The salaries can still vary depending on the educational background, years of experience in the profession, additional skills or certifications, and the location.