Requirements for Facility Managers and Their Competences

Abstract

Facility management is a relatively young discipline, which can significantly help enterprises in dealing with the impact of economic recession and finding new ways of increasing performance nowdays. Facility management is a practical way of professional administration and management of business support processes, through which it is possible to achieve savings of overhead costs by up to 30%. Key role in the management of support processes currently plays facility manager. Facility manager must necessarily have expertise, social skills and practical experience for effective management of supporting processes.Requirements for skills and abilities of facility manager, as well as a description of the actual job of facility manager is the central theme of the paper.