Operations + Maintenance Specialist

The role

This person supports the planning, design, construction, operation, and long-term performance of athletic and recreational facilities. They provide operational insight to align design intent with maintenance needs and facility performance.

What you will do

• Serve as a resource on athletic facility operations, maintenance practices, asset management, and lifecycle planning.
• Develop operations and maintenance manuals, plans, inspection programs, and checklists.
• Conduct facility assessments to evaluate existing conditions and maintenance practices.
• Partner with design teams to provide operational insight for planning and design decisions.
• Assist with technical reviews of plans, specifications, reports, and submittals.
• Support the growth of the sports facility practice through client relationships and service offerings.
• Participate in industry events, networking, and client meetings.
• Assist with proposals, interviews, presentations, and marketing initiatives.
• Collaborate with project teams and contractors during construction to evaluate design intent.
• Participate in site visits and field observations to identify construction issues.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in athletic facility operations, maintenance, asset management, or facility leadership.
• Experience operating, maintaining, managing, or overseeing athletic and recreational facilities.
• Working knowledge of synthetic turf, natural grass fields, tracks, courts, irrigation, drainage, athletic equipment, and related facility systems.
• Experience developing or administering maintenance programs, inspection programs, operational procedures, asset management initiatives, budgets, or capital improvement plans.
• Ability to interpret plans, specifications, construction details, shop drawings, submittals, warranties, and manufacturer requirements.
• Ability to translate technical information into practical recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to build productive relationships with clients, facility operators, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Ability to carry, lift and push/pull up to 5 pounds frequently and up to 30 pounds occasionally, or 50 or higher pounds in the field.
• Ability to see, smell, hear, talk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, crawl, reach, grasp, sit, stand, and walk.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in facilities management, construction management, sports management, turfgrass management, engineering, landscape architecture, or a related field
• Relevant certifications in facility management, sports field management, athletic facility construction, or related disciplines
• Existing relationships within collegiate athletics, education, municipal recreation, sports facilities, or related markets

About the company

McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and geomatics firm located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida.