When choosing Facility Managers, what qualities do you look for?

Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology.

The core competencies are:-

• Communication
• Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity
• Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
• Finance and Business
• Human Factors
• Leadership and Strategy
• Operations and Maintenance
• Project Management
• Quality
• Real Estate and Property Management
• Technology

A facility manager is expected to have the following qualities:

• Technical knowledge for the operation.
• Team Player
• Hardworking
• Self driven 
• Ready  to go an extra mile

Facility Managers position is of a very critical nature.

International Facility Management Standards define how well a FM is able to manage his / her facility.

As such a Facility Manager needs to justice to his job.

He should apart from proper Manamangement skills also possess enough exposure, expertise, education and experience in handling facilities. This is especially so when one is being hired as a FM by a Multi National Firm which has set very high expectation for its employees housed within the Facility.

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