Mohamad Jaber

The facility manager is no longer focused on a narrow technical field where the language is “FM speak,” but now has the expanded viewpoint of a business leader who helps the organization take a strategic view of its facilities and their impact on productivity.

Here are the characteristics of a successful facility manager in today’s business environment:

• Business leader

• Strategic business planner and implementer

• Resource obtainer

• Financial manager

• Spokesperson and advocate

• Agile purchaser, lessor, and contractor with a major regard for ethics

• Information manager

• Environmentalist

• Networker

• Mentor

• Innovator

• Risk taker

• Survivor