Building Operations and Maintenance Managers
Job description
Building Operations Managers organize, run, and evaluate building operations. They are employed in commercial, transportation, and recreational establishments.
Building Maintenance Managers organize, run, and evaluate building maintenance. They work for:
- Commercial, service, or recreational establishments
- Factories
- Airports and ports
- Port warehouses and silos
- Universities and schools
- Maintenance or mechanical engineering services
- Manufacturing companies
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Building Operations Managers
- Coordinate administrative services (signage, cleaning, maintenance, parking, security, snow removal, etc.).
- Supervise the installation, maintenance, and repair of building infrastructures (machinery, equipment, electrical and mechanical systems, etc.).
- Hire, train, and supervise staff.
- Establish and manage facility operating budgets.
- Ensure that occupational health and safety standards are respected and enforced.
- Manage activities related to construction and renovation projects.
- Supervise the rental of premises.
- Establish marketing strategies.
Building Maintenance Managers
- Coordinate various projects:
- Maintenance and repair of machinery, equipment, as well as electrical and mechanical systems
- Cleaning
- Snow removal
- Landscaping
- Develop work schedules and procedures.
- Carry out supply contracts for goods and services.
- Plan and manage facility maintenance budgets.
- Hire, train, and supervise staff.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $25.00
- Median
- $42.00
- Maximum
- $66.67
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
11,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 19.4% Female
- 80.6% Male
Not available.
- 19.4% Female
- 80.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$70,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5326% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 459% of jobs
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NAICS 418% of jobs
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NAICS 48, 498% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 567% of jobs
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Others42% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5326% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 459% of jobs
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NAICS 418% of jobs
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NAICS 48, 498% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 567% of jobs
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Others42% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in building Systems Technology
Code : 221C0
Placement rate: 63.5%
34.6% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
Building Operations Managers
- Graduate degree in Business Administration or in a field related to building operations and maintenance.
- Equivalent combination of technical training and administrative or maintenance experience.
Building Maintenance Managers
- Graduate degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or in a field related to building maintenance.
- Equivalent combination of technical training and building maintenance experience.
Sometimes required
- Several years of supervisory experience in a building operations or maintenance department are often required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Coordination
- Active listening
- Reading comprehension
- Negotiation
- Information processing
- Written expression
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Persuasion
- Judgment and decision-making
- Human resource management
- Service oriented
- Active learning
- Result evaluation
- Time management
- Solving complex problems
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Awareness of issues
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Classification
- Information organization
- Originality
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to adapt
- Capacity to work in a team
- Strategic sense
- Rigour
- Intermediate knowledge of the English language
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work with numbers
- Work in transportation and maintenance
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Official name of the NOC 70012
Facility operation and maintenance managers
Job titles
- Building maintenance manager
- Building operations manager
- Maintenance planner
- Maintenance operations superintendent
- Plant maintenance superintendent
- Facilities maintenance head
- Building maintenance head
- Maintenance support services chief
- Building services head
- Maintenance coordinator
- Assistant grain elevator manager
- Assistant warehouse manager
- Assistant shopping centre manager
- Airport terminal manager
- Arena manager
- Grain elevator manager
- Warehouse manager
- Tobacco warehouse manager
- Warehouse and distribution centre manager
- Fitness facility manager
- Canal director
- Shopping centre manager
- Athletic facility manager
- Conference centre manager
- Convention centre manager
- Distribution centre manager
- Sports facility manager
- Cemetery manager
- Grain elevator district manager
- Warehousing manager
- Director of maintenance
- School maintenance manager
- University maintenance manager
- Plant maintenance manager
- Campus maintenance manager
- Shopping centre maintenance manager
- Facility maintenance manager
- Industrial maintenance manager
- Maintenance and service manager
- Facility operations manager
- Property manager
- Facility management director
- Marina manager
- Harbour master
- Grain terminal elevator manager
- Stadium manager
- Tennis court manager
- Recreation facility manager
- Warehouse operations manager
- Airport manager
- Maintenance services manager
- Building services manager
- Electrical superintendent
- Marina operator
- Mechanical services superintendent
- Canal superintendent
Skill type
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
Last update: January 29, 2026
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