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Regional Director of Operations - North Central

ABM US
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/21/2025
The Regional Director, Operations provides leadership in directing and overseeing the North Central Manufacturing and Distribution organization. This critical role has P&L responsibility over the regionally assigned accounts and leads the staff in ensuring the rapid business growth and operational effectiveness of the region in a profitable and sustainable way.  

Essential Functions

  • Leads and drives the manufacturing and distribution North Central region with a focus on expanding ABM’s business footprint while maintaining maximum client service satisfaction.
  • Drive expansion of ABM’s core facilities maintenance, mechanical and electrical maintenance and services, as well as janitorial, cleaning and other services.
  • Ensure safety, quality, delivery and cost are key success measures embraced by the organization.
  • Recruit, manage, and lead teams with focus on continuous improvement. Select and develop teams of professionals, as well as people leaders. 
  • Influence and support functional strategy; determine, evaluate, and modify goals and the allocation of resources to ensure departmental and organizational goals are met. 
  • Support, motivate, inspire, and promote the team by building a positive and thriving team environment. 
  • Direct overall department processes for integration of services and systems. 
  • Participate in facilities planning processes and direct the implementation of strategic direction. 
  • Direct initiatives to improve quality performance and customer service. 
  • Ensure a safe and secure environment to meet customer needs and regulatory requirements. 
  • Maintain daily and weekly labor management control. 
  • Prepare plans for long range improvement projects to maintain infrastructure. 
  • Maintain accountability for area budgeting and replacement of materials and equipment. 
  • Execute preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
  • Implement ABM’s technology to ensure QA/QC and make better business decision from the data.
  • Special projects and other duties as needed. 
Required Qualifications
 

Education:  

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. 

 Experience:  

  • 10 years of experience in facilities maintenance and management. 
  • Experience managing budgets and having broad financial accountability, preferably P&L ownership, leadership accountability
  • Experience managing “hard” facilities services such as core facilities maintenance, mechanical and electrical maintenance and services.
  • Ability to effectively lead a staff of direct reports. Proven track record as an effective leader in a high-performance organization, success as a builder of collaborative, high-performance teams whose management style is characterized as results oriented.
  • Ability to lead in complex and transformational situations, simplifying the complex and driving tangible progress through others
  • Must know the city, state and federal laws and regulations that affect company business and know what licenses are required to operate the business. 
  • Self-starter and works well independently and as part of a team. 
  • Understanding of all facets of facilities roles. 
  • Ability to develop and conduct effective health, safety and environmental training programs.  
  • Skilled in project management, problem-solving techniques and communicating ideas and instructions clearly. 
  • Skilled in directing activities and operations of others, including in hazardous situations. 
  • Can quickly dive deep on business challenges and formulate themn as data and analytics problems that can be solved by standard approaching using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. 
  • Skills in relationship-building, teamwork, and collaboration. 
  • Positive attitude with a strong desire to learn and a continuous improvement mind-set. 
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft Office products. 
  • Comfortable with routinely shifting demands. 
  • Working knowledge of general office equipment. 
  • Ability to prioritize projects and execute and deliver in a timely manner under tight deadlines. 
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-oriented environment.  
  • Meticulous attention to detail, self-motivated, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.  

Key Preferred Qualifications

Education:   

  • Master’s degree (MBA) or equivalent technical master’s degree. 

 Experience:  

  • Demonstrated ability to lead a P&L and drive commercial growth while maintaining client service at the highest level for existing clients/customers
  • Enterprising leader with a track record of establishing leadership, best practices, processes and culture that drive sustainable business and talent growth.
  • Demonstrated track record of upward career progression in high performance environments with drive to continue to lead at even greater levels over time
  • Experienced at leading in a matrixed, transformational environment at a large company

Benefit Information:

ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 2024 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management 

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