Engineering Operations Manager

ABM industries; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Team environment

Job summary

ABM Industries is seeking an Engineering Operations Manager in Santa Clara, CA. You will lead mechanical facilities operations, oversee HVAC and critical infrastructure, and drive reliability in a high‑reliability environment.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, ensure safety compliance, and optimize maintenance planning, scheduling, and documentation to strengthen uptime and facility performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in facilities operations, plant engineering, or maintenance leadership.
• Experience leading engineers, technicians, and subcontractors in high‑reliability settings.
• Strong knowledge of HVAC, chillers, boilers, and related utilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily mechanical facilities operations, maintenance execution, and system performance.
• Coordinate technicians, engineers, vendors, and subcontractors for safe field execution.
• Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance and improve PM programs.
• Drive reliability improvements and maintain compliance with safety and environmental standards.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Troubleshooting

Safety compliance

High-reliability operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Maximo CMMS

BAS/BMS platforms

PLC controls

Job description

Pay Rate: $185-210/annually The pay listed is the salaried range for this position. A specific offer will vary based on the applicant's experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

Benefits: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM's benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management .

The Engineering Operations Manager will work closely with technical teams, vendors, safety partners, and client stakeholders. This role ensures maintenance is planned, executed, documented, and continuously improved. In a high-reliability environment, the Operations / Engineering Manager will be expected to apply mechanical expertise, field leadership, and disciplined execution to strengthen uptime, safety, reliability, and facility performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily mechanical facilities operations, maintenance execution, troubleshooting, and system performance in a high-reliability environment
• Oversee critical mechanical infrastructure, including HVAC, chillers, boilers, cooling towers, pumps, air handlers, make-up air units, process exhaust, compressed air, process vacuum, process cooling water, and related utilities
• Ensure controlled-environment systems meet required temperature, humidity, pressure, airflow, cleanliness, and performance standards
• Lead troubleshooting, escalation, and root cause analysis for system failures, recurring issues, and operational risks
• Participate in site escalation and incident response, including occasional after-hours support as needed
• Coordinate technicians, engineers, planners, vendors, and subcontractors to ensure safe, high-quality field execution
• Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for assigned mechanical and critical facility systems
• Partner with CMMS/EAM, planning, and reliability teams to improve work orders, PMs, job plans, asset records, maintenance history, and documentation quality
• Monitor equipment performance, PM compliance, backlog, recurring failures, and maintenance KPIs to identify reliability and productivity improvements
• Support shutdowns, planned outages, major maintenance events, infrastructure upgrades, and capital improvement projects
• Maintain compliance with safety, LOTO, environmental, cleanroom, hazardous material, contractor safety, permitting, and client-specific work control requirements
• Manage vendor and subcontractor execution, including scope alignment, technical review, safety compliance, cost awareness, and service quality
• Serve as the day-to-day technical contact for mechanical operations, maintenance performance, schedules, risks, and service delivery
• Coach and develop operations, engineering, maintenance, and technical staff to strengthen accountability, safety, reliability, and customer service

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related technical field preferred; equivalent technical, trade, military, or operational experience may be considered
• 5+ years of experience in facilities operations, plant engineering, maintenance management, utilities, or critical infrastructure operations
• Experience leading engineers, technicians, maintenance teams, vendors, or subcontractors in an operations or maintenance environment
• Strong mechanical systems experience, including HVAC, chilled water, boilers, pumps, air handling systems, process exhaust, compressed air, process cooling, vacuum, and related utilities
• Experience in semiconductor, cleanroom, advanced manufacturing, pharmaceutical, laboratory, data center, or other high-reliability environments preferred
• Working knowledge of BAS/BMS platforms, PLC-based controls, alarms, trends, and mechanical system monitoring
• Experience with CMMS / EAM platforms such as Maximo or similar systems, including work order management, asset data, PM programs, maintenance history, planning, and KPI reporting
• Ability to lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, reliability improvement, and maintenance optimization efforts
• Knowledge of OSHA, LOTO, environmental compliance, hazardous materials, cleanroom protocols, contractor safety, and work control processes
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with clients, senior leaders, engineers, technicians, vendors, and cross-functional teams
• Ability to prioritize effectively in a high-reliability environment where uptime, safety, communication, and execution discipline are critical
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, reporting tools, maintenance dashboards, CMMS systems, and technical documentation
• Certifications such as CFM, CPMM, CEM, OSHA 30, Lean Six Sigma, or reliability/maintenance planning credentials are a plus
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, and reliability practices
• Experience supporting operating budgets, repair planning, vendor contracts, subcontractor coordination, and capital projec