Ensuring you cover all your essential bases with a facilities management checklist
What are the main areas a facility management checklist will need to focus on when training a new position with your family-owned brand? Use this checklist to help determine how you are going to get ahead, and make sure that you tick all of the boxes.
FACILITY MANAGEMENT CHECKLIST
This checklist will help you to determine if you have covered all the essential bases with your new facility manager and their ability to manage your facility.
| 1 | Hire a competent facility manager | |
| 2 | Establish an aligned facility philosophy | |
| 3 | Establish a facility hygiene and management mission | |
| 4 | Create a facility maintenance master plan | |
| 5 | Take sustainability of your plan into account | |
| 6 | Take security of your plan into account | |
| 7 | Include emergency management in your plan | |
| 8 | Make sure that adequate planning has taken place | |
| 9 | Organize facility management by function, location, and organization | |
| 10 | Evaluate and hire staff members | |
| 11 | Evaluate and hire contractors and consultants | |
| 12 | Manage personnel according to your plan | |
| 13 | Direct staff, and build work schedules | |
| 14 | Develop policy and procedure plans | |
| 15 | Control standards, scheduling, IT systems, and policy execution | |
| 16 | Evaluate design, and analyze program steps periodically | |
| 17 | Facility planning and forecasting by gathering business data | |
| 18 | Strategic facility planning in three-year and 10-year plans | |
| 19 | Operational planning procedures | |
| 20 | Macro and micro level planning and capital program development | |
| 21 | Lease administration and property management | |
| 22 | Space planning, allocation, and management | |
| 23 | Architectural planning and design and engineering of major systems | |
| 24 | Workplace planning, allocation, and management | |
| 25 | Budgeting, accounting, and economic justification | |
| 26 | Real estate acquisition and disposal | |
| 27 | Environmental and legal due diligence | |
| 28 | Sustainability – site selection | |
| 29 | An easy to maintain flooring | |
| 30 | Vendor relationships | |
| 31 | Project management compliance | |
| 32 | Workplace improvements, lighting, air quality, and thermal comfort | |
| 33 | Aligning design with business functions | |
| 34 | Construction project management | |
| 35 | Operations, maintenance, and repair | |
| 36 | Technology management | |
| 37 | Facility emergency management | |
| 38 | Security and life-safety management | |
| 39 | General administrative services | |
| 40 | Vending and food services |
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