FACILITIES OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT

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  • Facilities operations is a multidimensional function, requiring solid management skills.
  • Disaster recovery has major facility complications and the facility manager will be  intimately involved.
  • Managing the company's environmental program can provide visibility to the facility manager.
  • Indoor air quality may become a major environmental issue.

 


Most facility management literature gives either of two impressions of facility operations: it does not exist, 

or it is a big machine that is turned on daily and operates smoothly with little or no funding, problems, or 

management attention. Neither could be further from the truth. Facility operations is a multidimensional 

function of facility management. It's often the forgotten function, but good management and organization 

ensure that 90 to 97 percent of problems are solved so that management can focus on the 3 to 10 percent 

of problems that truly need their attention. The truth is that facilities operations account for 50 to 75 percent 

of the facilities budget.


Facility operations includes these areas:

 

  • Plantoperations
  • Energymanagement
  • Hazardouswastemanagement
  • RecyclingInventorymanagement
  • Communicationsandwiremanagement
  • AlterationsmanagementRelocationandmovemanagement
  • Furnitureinstallation
  • Disasterrecovery
  • Maintenanceandrepair
  • Security
  • Fireandlifesafety

 

Plant Operations

Of all facility operations, the one function most commonly relegated to the back burner is plant operations. 

That is unfortunate because there is nothing back burner about modern plant operations. A bright, highly 

proficient operating engineer bemoaned recently that plant equipment had evolved much more rapidly than 

had the education and licensing requirements for operating engineers. The skills he really needed were in 

electronics with some basic computer skills, whereas he had been trained in the traditional steam fitting, 

sheet metal, and plumbing skills.

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