About the FMA®
The Facilities Management Administrator (FMA®) Designation program is designed for assistant facility managers, facility managers, and professionals responsible for daily operations and maintenance.
Upon successful completion, professionals will be able to:
- Manage facilities to support tenants and staff
- Meet the organization’s overall objectives
- Plan and project manage their entire facility
- Minimize maintenance costs and manage timely issues
What Will I Learn?
In the FMA® program, you’ll learn to manage facilities in a way that best supports tenants and staff, while meeting your organization’s overall objectives. The FMA® Designation helps professionals to become key strategic contributors within their organization by helping them create a productive work environment and handle tenant issues, daily operations, maintenance, comfort, and safety.
“The FMA® Designation program taught me the core principles of building management and has broadened my functional capabilities. As a result, I have confidently asserted myself in more of a leadership role.”
-Samuel F. McFadden, FMA®
FMA® Experience Requirements
Requirements
You can begin pursuing your FMA® at any time during your career. Before you are awarded your FMA® Designation, you are required to demonstrate three years of verifiable facilities management experience. The criteria are outlined in the FMA® Designation Experience Form. This form may be submitted at any time following enrollment.
Competency Credits
Professionals who have prior education in an area that overlaps with the FMA® may be eligible to receive credit for one or more courses. To review the requirements, please refer to the Administrative Competency Chart which outlines what is eligible and how to apply for course credit.
FMA® Designation Course Requirements
The FMA® requires the completion of the following courses with passed final exams:
Ready to get started? Click any of the courses below to register, email [email protected] or call 1.800.235.2664 for more information.
Environmental Health and Safety Issues
Develop and manage an effective environmental health and safety program, ensure facilities follow compliance and regulatory mandates, assess environmental risk factors, prepare for compliance audits, address emergency environmental health situations, Maintain health and safety records, manage indoor environmental quality complaints, Keep appropriate records, and design a waste management program
Ethics Is Good Business® ShortCourse
Understand fundamental ethical terms and moral reasoning, Identify potential ethical challenges, apply ethical approaches, resolve difficult issues with an ethical decision-making model, embrace a triple bottom line philosophy, and identify how concepts can be implemented in your organization.
Facilities Planning and Project Management
Execute post-occupancy evaluations, organize and plan a successful facilities project, assemble a project team, determine facility needs, distinguish facilities roles, and grow and implement project management skill sets.
Fundamentals of Facilities Management
Demonstrate the importance of facilities management, structure and manage operations and maintenance programs, manage internal and outsourced personnel effectively, align facilities operations with information management, cost controls, and investment and budgeting strategies, make effective decisions, apply insight into information analysis methods, and manage a successful project, with you as a team leader.
Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems,Part I
Implement maintenance best practices, Support maintenance of building structural components, describe best practices for the design, operation, and maintenance of HVAC and plumbing systems, and learn about systems for structural integrity.
Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems, Part II
Effectively analyze, manage, and optimize building systems, identify opportunities to increase the efficiency, manage pests, solid wastes, energy, and security and life-safety systems, and evaluate and implement best practices for increasing occupant safety and comfort.
The FMA® requires the completion of two of the following elective courses with passed final exams:
Asset Management
Maximize market value, manage distressed properties, identify and capitalize on opportunities, build wealth, and exercise control over assets to enhance operational efficiencies.
Real Estate Investment and Finance
Understand physical value and market value, determine a property’s economic value, learn about finance investments and increasing values, and understand tax laws.
Managing the Organization
Understand and use techniques to motivate and influence a staff, train managers in communication and marketing, organize facilities management functions, problem solving tools for managers, and learn about sustainability-driven building upgrades.