Regional Facilities Manager

Skills This Role Puts to Work Every Week

Regional Facilities Manager roles at third-party management firms like Asset Living demand a specific combination of technical fluency and operational leadership. You need to walk a property and quickly read what the maintenance team sees every day: deferred work orders, capex projects in progress, make-ready timelines, curb appeal gaps, and whether the punch list from last quarter's inspection actually got closed out. That diagnostic skill, the ability to assess a site's physical condition and operational discipline in a single visit, is something this role exercises constantly across a multi-property region in Phoenix and the surrounding area.

You'll also draw on your working knowledge of environmental compliance programs. Asbestos, lead-based paint, and mold response aren't abstract policy topics here. They're operational realities that need to be reinforced at the site level, and you'll be the person making sure teams understand and follow them correctly. Regulatory exposure across local, state, and federal requirements is part of the day-to-day, not a background consideration.

What You'll Build and Develop Here

This role sharpens skills that translate directly into senior facilities and operations leadership. You'll work alongside Regional Managers and a Director of Facilities on annual capital budgets, developing scopes, analyzing vendor bids, and monitoring project completion against those budgets. If you've managed individual capex projects before, this role builds your ability to manage a pipeline of them across a portfolio simultaneously.

KPI management is another area where this role develops real depth. Tracking make-ready cycle times and work order completion rates across multiple sites, identifying trends in that data, and then working with on-site managers and maintenance supervisors to act on those trends is a skill set that compounds over time. You'll also partner with the training team to deliver education to maintenance staff across the organization, which builds the facilitation and curriculum-development skills that distinguish strong regional operators from average ones.

• Regular site visits covering curb appeal, maintenance projects, inventory, and quarterly community standards inspections
• Supporting due diligence and property transition work through site inspections and staff evaluations
• Developing and testing emergency response plans with facility teams
• Implementing preventative and predictive maintenance programs at the site level
• Supporting interdepartmental communication between office staff and maintenance teams

What Makes This Role at Asset Living Distinctive

Asset Living operates across multifamily, single-family rentals, affordable housing, build-to-rent, and student housing, which means a Regional Facilities Manager here encounters a wider variety of asset types and operational contexts than most portfolio-focused roles offer. Phoenix is a high-growth market with a large active pipeline of build-to-rent and garden-style communities, and that growth creates real complexity for regional facilities oversight. Transition work and due diligence participation are built into this role, not occasional additions, so you'll develop experience evaluating properties at acquisition or management transition, a skill that carries significant weight in third-party fee management.

Strong candidates will bring more than maintenance knowledge. The ability to hold site teams accountable to KPI standards while coaching rather than just directing is what separates regional performers from regional managers who plateau. Asset Living's structure as one of the larger third-party operators in the country also means the internal career path for a Regional Facilities Manager with results is clear: Director of Facilities and VP of Operations roles exist within the organization and are filled from within.