Facility Area Manager (FAM)

Role overview

What you’ll do

• Lead day-to-day facilities operations and service delivery for assigned areas.
• Maintain building systems, infrastructure, utilities, and facility services; respond to issues, breakdowns, interruptions, and emerging risks.
• Direct internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and service providers; manage priorities, escalations, communication, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Support building maintenance, space management, housekeeping, tenant services, property maintenance, and campus services.
• Support utilities such as steam generation, wastewater treatment, compressed air, chilled water, and electricity.
• Lead or support regulatory, legislative, environmental, safety, and code-compliance activities; support chemical and waste-resource management, pollution prevention, remediation, and risk reduction.
• Develop asset-sustainment strategies through condition assessments, risk reviews, lifecycle planning, and funding recommendations.
• Plan and manage facility projects and improvements, coordinating scope, schedules, budgets, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Integrate facility requirements with manufacturing equipment, processes, buildings, utilities, and site infrastructure; monitor performance with metrics, dashboards, and standard work.
• Lead continuous improvement using GM Operating System principles, problem solving, standardization, and customer feedback.
• Promote energy efficiency, demand management, sustainability, and resource conservation; support emergency preparedness, incident response, and business continuity.
• Participate in plant and supplier forums, build cross-functional relationships, and coach and coordinate facilities team members while promoting accountability and safety.

Required qualifications

• College degree in engineering, facilities management, business, construction management, or a related discipline; equivalent training and experience may be considered.
• Significant experience in facilities, industrial operations, manufacturing, maintenance, construction, utilities, or engineering project management.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects, budgets, schedules, contractors, and competing priorities.
• Strong knowledge of facility systems, infrastructure, utility operations, maintenance, and regulatory requirements.
• Analytical, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills; ability to build effective cross-functional relationships.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and remain accountable for results.
• Ability to work on-site in an active automotive manufacturing environment and respond to operational priorities.

Preferred qualifications

• Automotive manufacturing or large industrial campus experience; experience in a unionized manufacturing environment.
• Experience with asset sustainment, lifecycle planning, capital projects, construction management, or facility reliability.
• Familiarity with Maximo or another computerized maintenance-management system.
• Knowledge of Ontario building, fire, electrical, environmental, occupational health and safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in energy management, sustainability, utility optimization, or demand-response programs.
• Experience implementing GM Operating System principles, continuous improvement, standard work, or structured problem solving.
• Professional engineering designation, project-management certification, or equivalent professional credential.

Key competencies

• Action orientation, integrity, learning agility, problem solving, customer focus, and technical and functional expertise.
• Planning and priority setting, decision quality, drive for results, team building, developing people, managing through systems, organizational agility, and strategic agility.

Compensation

• Annual salary range is $131,000 to $180,900; actual base salary varies based on position-related factors.
• The role is not eligible for relocation benefits.

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