
Area Manager
San Diego, CAJob$70K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Allied Universal Janitorial Services is hiring an Area Manager to oversee staff management, business operations, and customer relations across an assigned geographic area. The role manages site supervisors and cleaning staff, leads operational and financial performance, supports customer contract bids and start-ups, and conducts site visits and inspections. The position focuses on janitorial services for retail, facilities, education, and commercial office buildings.
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Company Overview:
Join Allied Universal® Facility Management and Janitorial Services! We’re committed to delivering exceptional cleaning, landscaping, and restoration services for commercial facilities. Be part of a welcoming and collaborative team where innovation meets excellence. We offer steady, reliable work in janitorial management, full-time and part-time janitorial roles, maintenance, landscaping, and metal restoration. If you want to make a meaningful impact and build a lasting career, we have opportunities for you. Join us and grow with a leader in the industry!
Allied Universal® Janitorial Services, an Allied Universal® Company, is hiring a Area Manager. The Area Manager is responsible for staff management, business operations, and customer relations within an assigned geographical area for a leading nationwide provider of Janitorial services in Retail, Facilities, Education, and Commercial Office Buildings.
Salary : $70,304.00 annually
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Manage sixty (60) Site Supervisors plus a sizeable hourly staff of cleaners at multiple accounts; provide ongoing guidance and direction; hire and develop line supervisors and staff; identify performance goals and provide ongoing training, coaching and feedback; proactively identify performance issues and provide immediate feedback; assess and determine best course of action; address union relations issues; assist in resolving grievances; and address non-union employee relations issues, as necessary.
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Lead on-going efforts for process improvement to enhance productivity and increase efficiencies while sustaining high level of quality; implement cost reduction, profit enhancing strategies; direct and execute new customer/contract start-up operations; identify start-up team, develop action plans, implement services in a timely and cost effective basis; continually assess financial performance of accounts/contracts, identify problem areas, implement plan to address concerns; financially manage and ensure account profit and productivity goals are met introduce new products and/or services, negotiate terms and insure contract supplies and equipment requirements are met; identify ongoing financial and operational efficiencies
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Present account contract bids; discuss issues, follow-up with changes and implement contract/services on a timely basis; schedule and conduct visits and inspections at all customer/site locations; walk through facility, identify, and discuss problems, issues, and solutions; develop action plan to address; provide feedback to project managers and/or staff; leverage relationships and build new business opportunities
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Manage and control staff expenses; communicate company business and travel expense policies; function as communication leader
QUALIFICATIONS:
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High School diploma equivalent (e.g., GED)
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Minimum of five (5) years of experience in managing operations in the services industry, preferably in the cleaning and maintenance business
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Experience with the development and maintenance of budgets and labor costs and monitoring financial information
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Strong interpersonal skills; able to effectively influence others through positive, proactive communication style
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Leadership skills with ability to positively impact customer and employee relations
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Excellent attentive and active listening skills
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Demonstrated ability to take initiative, successfully handle and prioritize multiple competing assignments and effectively manage deadlines
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Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications and able to effectively utilize all available office management technology
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Sound independent judgment and discretionary skills
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Outstanding oral and written communication skills
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Results-oriented, balancing a sense of urgency for immediate problems with proactive planning and problem identification
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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College degree in Business Administration/Management
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Experience working with and negotiating union contracts
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Ability to speak, read, and write the Spanish language
Allied Universal® is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information: www.aus.com
If you have difficulty using the online system and require an alternate method to apply or require an accommodation, please contact our local Human Resources department. To find an office near you, please visit: www.aus.com/offices .
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Job ID: 2026-1706845
Location: United States-California-San Diego
Job Category: Management
How this job compares
Set against the 1,002 open Area Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70K/yr
- California median$73–91K/yr77 salary ranges
- US median$70–91K/yr742 salary ranges
This rate, $70K, is 14% below the California median midpoint ($82K) — in the lowest quarter of Area Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 98 open Area Manager jobs in California and 1,002 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Amazon46 open
- Ross Stores, Inc.15 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Area Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 586 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 463 of the 1,002 open Area Manager jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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