ELITE BUILDING SERVICES
OPERATION MANAGER FOR BALTIMORE, MD.
Elite Building Services is a responsible, single source, preferred partner, providing world class facility services while striving to be the best place to work. Elite is a certified woman-owned business, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. We service the New England, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West and Southeastern regions of the United States. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer.
Title: Operations Manager
Reports to: Director of Operations
Location: BALTIMORE, MD
Position Status: Full time/Exempt
Benefits Eligibility: Yes
Job Description: The Operations Manager will be directly responsible for daily janitorial operations, customer satisfaction, account retention, and strong employee relations for multiple accounts.You will also ensure services are provided in a cost-effective manner. This position plays a critical role in ensuring all cleaning staff stays on task and completes all assignments for client satisfaction. To be successful in this role, you should have a good understanding of clients, cleaning principles, running jobs cost-effectively and a teamwork mentality.
Essential Responsibilities include:
Employee-Related
- Manage a team of technicians and cleaners to achieve a high level of quality
- Recruit, select, onboard, train, assign, schedule, coach, counsel and discipline employees
- Communicate job expectations to employees; planning, monitoring, appraising and reviewing job contributions
- Plan and review employee compensation actions; enforcing company policies and procedures with employees
- Communicate all operating policies and/or issues to employees at team meetings
- Train new technicians and cleaners on proper cleaning procedures
- Organize and build crews based on job requirements, including assisting with recruiting and onboarding new employees through EPAY
- Organize employee shifts, train and motivate team members for multiple clients
- Review and approve employee timesheets in EPAY for accurate payroll processing
Operations and Budget-Related
- Communicate with regional sales and operations managers on a regular basis
- Complete paperwork related to jobs in an accurate and timely manner
- Maintain and manage budget, control expenses for all managed operations, review job costs, and make necessary adjustments to meet budget compliance.
- Manage staff levels, wages, hours, contract labor to revenues
- Work closely with Director of Operations and Management team to set and/or implement operations policies, procedures and systems and to follow through with implementation.
- Contribute job site operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality and customer-service standards; resolve problems; complete audits; identify trends on assigned client accounts
- Forecast requirements; prepare an annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyze variances; initiate corrective actions on assigned client accounts
- Develop operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements; develop, implement, enforce and evaluate policies and procedures; develop processes for receiving supplies, equipment utilization, inventory management and quality control on assigned accounts
- Analyze process workflow, employee and space requirements and equipment layout; implement changes on accounts
- Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
- Accomplish operations and organization mission by completing related results as needed
Client and Job site-related
- Communicate with all building managers and supervisors, with review/approval responsibility for all operations employees
- Manage relationships with key operations vendors
- Effectively communicate with onsite clients
- Serve as primary point of contact when there are customer issues related to equipment quality, customer service, or accidents and mishaps on-site. In particular, this includes any issues on-site at client facilities
- Communicate customer issues with operations team and devise ways of improving the customer experience, including resolving problems and complaints
- Organize and maintain supplies and working condition of cleaning equipment
- Work closely with the inventory manager and team to perform analysis of our inventory and ensure we are utilizing our inventory requirements
Requirements:
- A minimum of 2 years related experience, preferably at the supervisory level
- Ability to create and forecast productivity, staffing, and budget plans.
- Ability to initiate and document corrective action professionally and thoroughly as needed.
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must have reliable transportation to and from work.
- Must have a clean driving record and be insurable, including successfully pass a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) to operate a company vehicle.
- Must be able to pass background check
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and be dependable
- Ability to work during the evening to visit cleaning teams and ensure they are all properly working their assignments
- Strong attention to details
- Strong leadership, communication and listening skills as well was experience working in a high stress environment
- Bilingual in English and Spanish a plus
- Experience with payroll and timekeeping a plus
- Physical Requirements: Must be able to regularly lift 30-50 pounds, stand for long periods of time and travel to multiple sites each day as needed
Education Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent is preferred
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- On call
- Weekends as needed
Ability to Commute:
- BALTIMORE, MD
Ability to Relocate:
- Work Location: In person
- Company Vehicle and Gas Card Provided During Work Hours.
- Cell phone and laptop provided
NOTE: Must Be Authorized To Work In The US.
Job Type: Full-time