Temple Facilities Manager 1 (Full time) - Bismarck North Dakota Temple

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints•Bismarck, ND

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Temple Facility Manager 1 (TFM1) role is a critical frontline leadership position responsible for ensuring that temple facilities consistently reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature required to support the worship experience. This role combines people leadership, operational execution, and faithful stewardship, with direct responsibility for leading and developing all facilities personnel, including maintenance, custodial, grounds, and security teams, while fostering a culture of accountability, unity, and excellence. The TFM1 translates strategic direction into disciplined execution by ensuring full compliance with Temple Facilities Standards, overseeing preventive maintenance, repairs, and capital projects, and delivering work in alignment with approved scope, quality, and safety expectations. Serving as the primary liaison between temple leadership, area leadership, and external stakeholders, the TFM1 ensures proactive communication, coordination, and risk mitigation to protect temple operations and the patron experience. As the senior functional expert on-site, the TFM1 exercises sound judgment in managing resources, budgets, contracts, and compliance requirements, ensuring all efforts align with approved plans and policies. Ultimately, this role is essential to sustaining a reverent, unified, and high-performing temple facilities operation, where success is measured not only by operational outcomes but by the ability to lead people, build capability, and uphold the sacred responsibility entrusted to the organization.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent education/certification, demonstrating increasing responsibility and leadership growth.
Proven leadership experience, including supervising teams, influencing outcomes, and developing employee capability within a diverse or mixed workforce.
Ability to lead, coach, and hold teams accountable while fostering a culture of safety, excellence, and alignment with organizational and sacred standards.
Working knowledge of core facilities systems (mechanical, electrical, controls, audiovisual, plumbing) with the ability to guide team performance and decision-making.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to direct work, resolve issues, and build collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize, make sound decisions, and exercise good judgment in a dynamic operational environment.
Proficiency in required technologies and languages (local language and, where applicable, English) to effectively lead operations, training, and communication.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in a related field (facilities, engineering, construction, or project management).
Facilities management experience with progressive leadership responsibility.
Project management experience, including leading teams, coordinating contractors, and delivering results within scope, schedule, and budget.
Experience in employee development, performance management, or training.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft tools (e.g., Excel) to support analysis, reporting, and informed leadership decisions.
Successful candidates will demonstrate not only technical competence but the ability to lead people, build capability, and foster a culture aligned with the sacred purpose and high standards of temple facilities operations.

Responsibilities

Regularly manage the work of other employees (may include mixed workforce)
Responsible, in partnership with HR, to hire or fire employees and recommends advancement, promotion or any other change of status of employees within their reporting line
Typically manages 2-10 employees, with one or more people supervisor(s) reporting to them
Responsible for the maintenance of the temple and ancillary buildings associated with the temple complex approximately 40k square feet (e.g., patron housing, visitor's center, temple president's residence, MTC, area offices etc.)
Responsible to maintain established standards at all times during peak usage and when the temple is closed
Responsible for managing the expectations of approximately 1-2 key stakeholders
Effective job knowledge, skill levels and performance of Temple Facilities Services team by providing on-site and remote training, coaching, and mentoring
Responsible for implementing temple maintenance guides and materials and testing improved maintenance methods, systems, and equipment
Responsible for creation and execution of annual plan, by overseeing and/or managing project and operational costs, maintenance, preventative maintenance, and repair of electrical, mechanical, audiovisual, and computer systems
Responsible for department labor costs (contract and employee) and third-party relationships
Participates in all final close out procedures for project(s) including as-built drawing, archiving, close out process, letter of substantial completion, warranty process, and letter of recommendation
Ensure project(s) are completed in conformance to design documents and standards requirements
Communicates with Temple President and other Priesthood leaders, supervisors and department specialists, local governments, architects, general contractors, and local leaders as needed