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Senior Facilities and Operations Area Manager - Building Maintenance Dept

Gwinnett County Public Schools

Suwanee, GAFull-time$81–118K/yrPosted 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$81–118K/yr
Location
Suwanee, GA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Georgia Driver's License

Job overview

Gwinnett County Public Schools seeks a Senior Facilities and Operations Area Manager to coordinate building maintenance across school facilities. The manager oversees area managers, staff, maintenance programs, budgets, inspections, and customer needs, and supports compliance with applicable codes and regulations. The role requires 10+ years of building maintenance and construction management experience, supervisory experience, and a valid Georgia driver's license; school-setting management experience and a related bachelor's degree are preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Building Maintenance ManagementBuilding Maintenance PrinciplesProject LeadershipWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationPeople ManagementSchedulingOrganizationCustomer ServiceContinuous ImprovementData-Driven Decision MakingComputerized Maintenance Management SystemsRecordkeepingProject Financial ManagementCost EstimatingBudget ManagementQuality AppraisalMaintenance PlanningPredictive MaintenancePreventive MaintenanceBuilding Maintenance TradesMaximo

Qualifications

Valid Georgia Driver's LicenseHigh School Diploma or GEDBachelor's Degree in Related Field10+ Years Building Maintenance and Construction Management ExperiencePrevious Supervisory ExperienceSchool Setting Management Experience

Full job description

Senior Facilities and Operations Area Manager - Building Maintenance Dept JobID: 104605

  • Position Type:

Administrative/Managerial/ Sr FandO Area Manager

  • Date Posted:

11/4/2026

  • Location:

Building A

  • Date Available:

11/09/2026

Job Code: Sr FandO Area Manager - 030374 Standard Hours: 40 Department: Building Maintenance Dept - 262800 Empl Class: NA

Minimum Salary: $80,867.00/Annually

Maximum Salary: $118,014.00/Annually

Scheduled Days: 245

Target Openings: 1

License and Certification Qualifications:

  • Valid Georgia driver's license Required

Education Qualifications:

  • H.S. Diploma or General Education Degree or equivalent Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field Preferred

Experience Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in building maintenance and construction management Required

  • Previous supervisory experience Required

  • Management experience in a school setting Preferred

Skills Qualifications:

  • Ability to manage and appraise the quality of maintenance of school facilities and ancillary buildings

  • High degree of technical competence in building maintenance principles and management

  • Ability to provide project leadership

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with others in an effective and tactful manner

  • Strong people management skills

  • Strong scheduling and organizational skills pertaining to scheduling predictive and preventative maintenance programs

  • Customer focused with a commitment to quality customer service

  • Expertise in continuous improvement, data driven decisions, and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

  • Commitment to support organization's goals and values

  • Ability to maintain exemplary records

  • Strong project financial management, cost estimating, and budget management skills

Primary Responsibilities:

Assist the Director of Building Maintenance with the management of the Facilities and Operations Area Managers to ensure the cost effective maintenance, repair, and conservation of facilities by acting as a senior facilitator for all customers working with the Department of Facilities and Operations, which may include acting as the coordinator for grounds and environmental requests to various customers.

  • Oversee the coordination of the Facilities and Operations Area Managers for the program development and execution of building maintenance efforts.

  • Plan, schedule, and execute comprehensive programs designed to provide superior quality building maintenance.

  • Maintain data relating to maintenance of facilities, equipment, workforce scheduling, and costs.

  • Comply with local, state, and federal statutory and system requirements.

  • Responsible for complying with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Fire Marshall inspections, safety audits, insurance inspections, state boiler inspections, and commissioning new buildings and equipment.

  • Oversee the content provided to new principals and staff and conduct orientations as needed.

  • Ensure world-class customer support is provided Facilities and Operations Area Managers in the Department of Facilities and Operations.

  • Act as the lead contact for all unresolved facilities and operational customer needs.

  • Maintain all facility systems at maximum reliability levels to support GCPS mission and local school customer needs.

  • Address and delegate user concerns dealing with facilities, staff, communication, and scheduling to determine needed course of action.

  • Apply technical proficiencies to support facilities and operations activities.

  • Apply knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, and managing to optimize shop operations.

  • Maintain currency in building maintenance trades skills in order to inspect and assess the quality of work accomplished by staff.

  • Maintain currency with the latest methods of the computerized maintenance management system, Maximo.

  • Maintain currency with all codes, specifications, and guidelines as applicable to GCPS facilities.

  • Assist the Director of Building Maintenance with the time and financial/budget management and reporting of district's building maintenance.

  • Oversee the coordination efforts associated with the building maintenance functions and activities.

  • Communicate with local school leaders and administrators to determine customer requirements and expectations.

  • Work with other departments, districts, and local schools to perform the most feasible, corrective, predictive, and preventive maintenance as required.

  • Maintain constant communications with local, state, and federal agencies in order to comply with current codes and regulations.

  • Meet with contractors and vendors and oversee the scheduling of "after-hour" work.

  • Manage and evaluate staff.

  • Perform supervisory duties for designated staff.

  • Responsible for the development of staff with safety meetings, in-service training, and certifications and licensing.

  • Responsible for the coordination of the Facilities and Operations Area Managers for the maintenance of all shop records and correspondence, personnel files, and safety and housekeeping procedures.

  • Serve as the department head in the absence of the Director of Building Maintenance.

  • Be on-call 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

  • Support attainment of GCPS goals and strategic initiatives for continuous improvement through ongoing evaluation of overall system quality and effectiveness.

  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, negotiate stairs, climb ladders, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear, manipulate tools and small items with hands, and lift and transport up to 50 pounds over short distances. The employee is required to operate a motor vehicle in performance of duties. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision. The employee may be subjected to a wide range of ambient temperature and humidity conditions while working on equipment under varying conditions including overhead work and work in confined spaces. Potential hazards of this position include working with electricity, working with heat and noise producing machinery and equipment, working on elevated equipment using ladders or other lifting devices, and use of chemicals and solvents. Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals with specific disabilities.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,164 open Facilities Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$81–118K/yr
  • US median$122–197K/yr1,394 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $99K, is 36% below the US median midpoint ($156K) — in the lowest quarter of Facilities Management salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 41 open Facilities Management jobs in Georgia and 2,164 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Georgia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Facilities Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,591 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 574 of the 2,164 open Facilities Management jobs (27%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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