Facility Management Planning
This course will provide participants with the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to perform all the essential tasks required to manage a facility. The course includes important concepts such as strategic and financial planning, engineering design, automation and maintenance. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the processes and activities required to manage a facility effectively from different perspectives: operational, environmental, contractual and technical and to make the optimum decisions for their facilities.
· Explain the foundations of facility management
· Analyze strategic options and make decisions necessary to manage the facility
· Identify tools and techniques necessary to develop a facility’s engineering layouts
· Decide about automation and disaster recovery planning
· Discover the importance of proper maintenance management and project management of a facility
· Apply project management techniques to manage large size facility tasks
· Use capital budgeting concepts and techniques to ensure implementing the appropriate decisions regarding facilities
Overview of facility management
· Defining facility management
· Role and responsibilities of the facility manager
· Facility management main activities
· Challenges and risks
Strategic Facility Planning
· Retaining services in-house versus outsourcing
· Facility management strategic options
· Outsourcing facility functions
· Supplier selection
· Service level agreements
· Facility location
· Site criteria considerations
Engineering planning and design
· Design requirements and layouts
· Space and furniture considerations
Maintenance and operations management
· Emergency maintenance
· Corrective maintenance
· Preventive maintenance
· Predictive maintenance
· Facility security
Managing large facility jobs
· Defining large facility jobs
· Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
· Developing a schedule
· Gantt chart
· Resource planning
Facility Financial Management
· Evaluating alternative plans
· Ranking the alternatives
· Weighted factor comparison
· Facility budgeting
· Common ratios and trend analyses
Capital budgeting evaluations
Personnel who are interested in learning facility management and the considerations that affect facility management.