Facilities Operations Manager

Job Description:

Facilities Operations Manager

Description

• • Position Summary
  • Full-time position under the Management Personnel Plan (MPP) available on or after July 6, 2026 in Capital Planning & Facilities Management.
    
    This position is responsible for the management of facilities-related operations for Stanislaus State’s Turlock and Stockton campuses, including building maintenance, custodial, landscape, and mechanical systems. The position oversees operations and maintenance staff, administers service and supply contracts, and manages third-party vendor services. The incumbent administers a preventative maintenance program and may be assigned to manage renovation and construction projects.
    
    The Facilities Operations Manager serves as the campus lead for the operation, maintenance, and repair of building systems, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, refrigeration, central heating and cooling plants, and fire/life safety systems. The role includes coordination with campus departments, contractors, and external agencies to support facilities operations across both campuses.
    
    
  • Job Duties
  • Duties include but are not limited to:
    • Provide direct supervision to maintenance staff across Stockton and Turlock campuses; assign, prioritize, and evaluate work.
      
    • Manage personnel functions including recruitment, training, performance evaluations, goal setting, professional development, and progressive discipline in accordance with collective bargaining agreements.
      
    • Interpret and administer collective bargaining agreements and ensure compliance in daily operations.
      
    • Foster effective working relationships with staff, union representatives, campus stakeholders, contractors, and external agencies.
      
    • Manage the Stockton maintenance operations budget, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with operational needs.
      
    • Prepare, review, and approve requests for materials, equipment, and services, including campus P-Card purchases.
      
    • Administer service, supply, and maintenance contracts; oversee third-party vendors and ensure quality and compliance of work.
      
    • Provide a high level of customer service to campus constituents, ensuring timely response to service requests and operational needs.
      
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      Plan, manage, and oversee maintenance, renovation, and new equipment installation projects.
      
      
    • Develop project scopes, estimate materials and labor across multiple trades, and manage project budgets and timelines.
      
    • Review design documents and provide recommendations on work prepared by consultants to ensure alignment with campus standards and regulatory requirements.
      
    • Inspect and monitor construction and maintenance work performed by contractors for quality, safety, and compliance.
      
    • Participate in long-range and strategic planning for campus building systems, infrastructure, and capital improvements.
      
    • Ensure projects comply with public works requirements, contract specifications, and applicable codes and standards.
      
    • Prioritize competing demands and ensure projects and operational deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
      
    • Develop and implement campus standards for maintenance, repair, and infrastructure systems.
      
    • Oversee and manage the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and repair of all campus building systems, including but not limited to HVAC&R, plumbing, electrical, refrigeration, central heating and cooling plants, fire/life safety systems, and energy management systems.
      
    • Administer and ensure execution of a comprehensive preventative maintenance program for all campus facilities and infrastructure.
      
    • Make building system operation decisions to ensure efficient, reliable, and code-compliant performance.
      
    • Monitor and optimize performance of computer-driven energy management systems in coordination with the Energy Manager.
      
    • Ensure compliance with applicable codes and regulations, including Uniform Mechanical and Plumbing Codes, National Electrical Code, Title 24, Title 8 Safety Orders, and other federal, state, and local requirements.
      
    • Serve as the primary point of contact for all Stockton-related facilities operations matters.
      
    • Proactively identify maintenance needs.
      
    • Other duties as assigned.
  • Minimum Qualifications
  • Experience: Six (6) years of progressively responsible professional experience, including two (2) years in a management or supervisory role overseeing a skilled and/or semi-skilled workforce.
    
    Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. (Additional progressively responsible experience directly related to the duties of the position may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.)
    
    
  • Preferred Qualifications
  • • Possession of APPA EFP or CEFP certification, or other certification/licensure related to facilities maintenance.
      
    • ICC/ICBO certification (General Building preferred), or OSHPD/DSA Class 1 certification.
      
    • Three or more years of experience in a management or supervisory role overseeing a skilled and/or semi-skilled workforce.
      
    • Ten (10) more years of experience in a maintenance and regulatory work environment.
      
    • Familiarity with thermal energy storage systems.
      
    • Prior experience with California State University (CSU) policies and procedures for construction and renovation.
      
    • Prior experience within the CSU system, higher education, or public sector setting.
      
    • Experience working in a collective bargaining environment.
      
    • Experience using computer programs such as work order systems, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), building automation systems (e.g., ALC), project management systems, and fire/life safety systems (e.g., Notifier).
      
    • Experience and education that includes coursework in facilities management, construction technology, building repair and maintenance, business administration, or a related field.
      
  • Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
  • • Thorough knowledge of the principles, practices, and procedures of the assigned functional area.
      
    • Must possess thorough knowledge of the methods, practices, and procedures related to building operations and mechanical systems, including HVAC.
      
    • Knowledge of proper repair procedures for plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration, central heating and cooling plants, and electrical systems.
      
    • Comprehensive knowledge of effective personnel management practices and supervisory skills, including recruitment, training, performance assessment establishment and monitoring of goals and objectives, motivation and professional development, corrective actions and progressive discipline.
      
    • Ability to interpret, understand and enforce the complexities of Collective Bargaining contracts.
      
    • Ability to work independently with little management oversight.
      
    • Excellent project management skills.
      
    • Establish and maintain effective relations with campus community, contractors, utilities, and other agencies.
      
    • Ability to develop effective and collaborative working relationships with subordinate staff, union representatives, fellow managers, and supervisors using principles of good customer service.
      
    • Ability to prioritize competing demands and to provide deliverables on time and within budget.
      
    • Knowledge of public work project and contract requirements.
      
    • Working knowledge of the Uniform Mechanical and Plumbing Codes, National Electrical Code, and Title 24, California Building and Safety Codes, State and Federal Codes, local ordinances, and other applicable codes.
      
    • Knowledge of Title 8 Safety Orders.
      
    • Strong knowledge of computer driven energy management systems.
      
    • Ability to use computers and software programs for correspondence, spreadsheets, word processing, and work tracking.
      
    • Demonstrated customer service skills.
      
  • License or Certifications
  • Valid California driver’s license is required.
  • Physical Requirements
  • The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
    
    • Position will be required to travel.
  • Salary Range
  • Anticipated starting salary will be $7,580 - $10,106 per month plus excellent paid benefits. Salary will depend on the qualifications of the successful finalist.
    
    
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Commensurate with qualifications and experience. As a member of the 23-campus CSU System, we offer an extremely competitive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, outstanding vacation, health, dental, and vision plans; a fee waiver education program; membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS); and 15 paid holidays a year. Link to Benefits Summary: CSU Employee Benefit Summary
    
    
  • How to Apply
  • To be considered, qualified candidates must submit a completed Stanislaus State online employment application, cover letter, and resumé. Applications are accepted electronically only. Please note that failure to completely fill out each section of the online application may result in your application not receiving consideration. To apply online, please click the “Apply Now” button on this page.
  • Application Deadline
  • OPEN UNTIL FILLED; SCREENING TO BEGIN ON OR AFTER JUNE 15, 2026. (Applications received after the screening date will be considered at the discretion of the university.)
    
    
  • Background Clearance Notice
  • Satisfactory completion of a background check (which includes checks of employment records, education records, criminal records, civil records; and may include motor vehicle records, professional licenses, and sex offender registries, as position requires) is required for employment. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.
    
    Education Code 89521 Requirements: Applicants will be required to disclose whether they have received a final administrative decision or final judicial decision determining that they have committed sexual harassment within the last 7 years only after a determination is made that they meet the minimum qualifications for the position, and before an offer of employment is extended. Applicants who reach the final stages of the application process must also sign a release form that authorizes the release of information by the applicant’s current and/or former employers to the CSU concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct.
    
    
  • Additional Information
  • Campus & Area
    California State University, Stanislaus serves the San Joaquin Valley and is a critical educational resource for a six-county region of approximately 1.5 million people. The University is fully committed to creating a culture of diversity and inclusion - one in which every person in the University community feels safe to express their views without fear of reprisal. Widely recognized for its quality academic programs, the University has 10 nationally accredited programs and 662 faculty members. 94 percent of full-time faculty holds doctorates or terminal degrees in their fields. The University offers 43 undergraduate majors, 16 master's programs, 7 post-graduate credentials, a doctorate in education and serves more than 10,000 students. New instructional facilities have been built for the unique pedagogy of professional programs, laboratory sciences and performing arts.
    
    Stanislaus State continues to receive national recognition with its ranking as one of the best 384 colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review. The University was one of 12 public universities in the nation to be recognized by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities for demonstrating exceptional performance in retention and graduation rates. In addition, U.S. News and World Report ranks Stanislaus State in its top 10 among public universities in the West, while Washington Monthly honored Stanislaus State as the West’s No. 1 university for the money. Stanislaus State also is recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U.S. Department of Education.
    
    Clery Act Disclosure
    
    Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the annual security report (ASR), is now available for viewing at https://www.csustan.edu/annual-campus-security-report . The ASR contains the current security and safety-related policy statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, crime prevention and sexual assault prevention information, and drug and alcohol prevention programming. The ASR also contains statistics of Clery Act crimes for Stanislaus State for the previous three years. A paper copy of the ASR is available upon request by contacting the office of the Clery Director located at One University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382.
    
    Equal Employment Opportunity
    
    The university is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, covered veteran status, or any other protected status. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. The person holding this position is considered a ‘mandated reporter’ under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083, revised 7/21/17, as a condition of employment.
    
    Applicants requiring necessary accommodations to the application process may contact the Human Resources Department at (209) 667-3351. California Relay Service is available at (800) 735-2922 voice and (800) 735-2929 TDD. As a federal contractor, we are committed to attracting a diverse applicant pool. Please consider completing the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability form (your response will not be shared with the search committee) at: Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability PDF Form .
    
    CSU Stanislaus hires only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
    
    The CSU is a state entity whose business operations reside within the State of California. The CSU prohibits hiring employees to perform CSU-related work outside California.
    
  • The individuals who appear to be the best qualified for this position will be contacted by telephone or email for an interview.
    
    INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
    
    

Advertised: May 28 2026 Pacific Daylight Time
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