OPT Facilities Project Manager Jobs
Facilities Project Manager roles involve overseeing construction, renovation, and maintenance projects across corporate campuses, healthcare systems, and universities. F-1 OPT students with degrees in facilities management, civil engineering, or construction management qualify. Your 12-month OPT window is enough to complete a full project cycle and demonstrate sponsorship value.
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- The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
A career in Supply Chain means ensuring products reach guests with speed, precision, and reliability. As an Engineering and Facilities Maintenance Manager, you play a key role in maintaining the infrastructure that powers these operations. This role goes beyond equipment upkeep—it’s about leading strategies that optimize systems, drive continuous improvement, and create sustainable, high-performing environments. You’ll manage critical assets, implement innovative solutions to reduce downtime, and enhance efficiency. Your leadership ensures teams deliver the products millions of guests need when they need them.
The Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager leads the planning, operation, and upkeep of all building systems, equipment, and infrastructure to deliver a safe, reliable, and highly efficient supply chain environment. You will own the health and performance of the facility—driving uptime, throughput, cost efficiency, and risk reduction—while championing a safety-first, reliability-centered maintenance culture. This role spans strategic planning and day-to-day execution, blending leadership, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement to ensure our teams, assets, and operations perform at their best.
Maintenance Reliability:
This role ensures operational excellence through strategic planning, disciplined processes, and hands-on problem-solving. You’ll lead preventive and predictive maintenance, oversee capital projects, manage vendors, and coordinate emergency repairs for critical assets. Leveraging accurate metrics, data analysis, and root-cause investigations, you’ll drive continuous improvement, reduce downtime, and enhance equipment effectiveness. Success requires strong cross-functional collaboration, timely performance reporting, and precise escalation handling to maintain seamless execution across the Engineering & Facilities network.
Team Leadership:
This role requires strong leadership to guide Maintenance Technicians, Facility Attendants, and CMMS Technicians with clear expectations, accountability, and urgency. You’ll recruit, onboard, and develop talent through coaching, feedback, and a mix of formal and on-the-job training, building technical and leadership capabilities. Fostering trust and engagement across all levels is key to creating a culture of shared success. Safety leadership is non-negotiable—enforcing LOTO, Arc Flash, and PPE standards, driving hazard prevention, and leading post-incident investigations. In Food & Beverage operations, you’ll also ensure sanitation and ammonia refrigeration compliance to protect product integrity and meet regulatory standards.
Budget Planning and Cost Control:
Asset stewardship extends across all site systems, including material handling equipment, power distribution, HVAC, fire suppression, dock equipment, backup generators, and more. You’ll manage life-cycle planning, contractor quality, and budget performance for both OpEx and CapEx. Leveraging Maintenance data and predictive technologies, you’ll drive reliability improvements and reduce total cost of ownership.
Facility Infrastructure Oversight and Project Management:
This role calls for a strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment. You’ll balance multiple priorities, Projects, adapt quickly to change, and lead with clarity and confidence. Your ability to align teams, communicate effectively, and deliver results ensures millions of guests receive the products they need—on time, every time. The core responsibilities of this role are outlined in this description; however, duties may evolve over time to meet changing business needs.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
- Preferred 4-year degree in a relevant technical or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams across designated shifts—including weekends, overnights, and holidays, while ensuring operational continuity, rapid decision-making, and consistent leadership presence in fast-paced environments.
- Exceptional communication, problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, backed by a safety-first mindset and a proven track record of driving operational excellence.
- Skilled in contractor/vendor management, capital project oversight, and ensuring quality, cost, and performance outcomes.
- Proficient in CMMS/EAM systems and PC applications, with strong aptitude for leveraging data and technology to improve reliability and efficiency.
- Highly self-motivated, customer-focused, and results-driven, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Physically able to access all areas of the distribution center, including mezzanines and freezer environments (as low as –15°F).
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
COMPENSATION
- The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
A career in Supply Chain means ensuring products reach guests with speed, precision, and reliability. As an Engineering and Facilities Maintenance Manager, you play a key role in maintaining the infrastructure that powers these operations. This role goes beyond equipment upkeep—it’s about leading strategies that optimize systems, drive continuous improvement, and create sustainable, high-performing environments. You’ll manage critical assets, implement innovative solutions to reduce downtime, and enhance efficiency. Your leadership ensures teams deliver the products millions of guests need when they need them.
The Engineering & Facilities Maintenance Manager leads the planning, operation, and upkeep of all building systems, equipment, and infrastructure to deliver a safe, reliable, and highly efficient supply chain environment. You will own the health and performance of the facility—driving uptime, throughput, cost efficiency, and risk reduction—while championing a safety-first, reliability-centered maintenance culture. This role spans strategic planning and day-to-day execution, blending leadership, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement to ensure our teams, assets, and operations perform at their best.
Maintenance Reliability:
This role ensures operational excellence through strategic planning, disciplined processes, and hands-on problem-solving. You’ll lead preventive and predictive maintenance, oversee capital projects, manage vendors, and coordinate emergency repairs for critical assets. Leveraging accurate metrics, data analysis, and root-cause investigations, you’ll drive continuous improvement, reduce downtime, and enhance equipment effectiveness. Success requires strong cross-functional collaboration, timely performance reporting, and precise escalation handling to maintain seamless execution across the Engineering & Facilities network.
Team Leadership:
This role requires strong leadership to guide Maintenance Technicians, Facility Attendants, and CMMS Technicians with clear expectations, accountability, and urgency. You’ll recruit, onboard, and develop talent through coaching, feedback, and a mix of formal and on-the-job training, building technical and leadership capabilities. Fostering trust and engagement across all levels is key to creating a culture of shared success. Safety leadership is non-negotiable—enforcing LOTO, Arc Flash, and PPE standards, driving hazard prevention, and leading post-incident investigations. In Food & Beverage operations, you’ll also ensure sanitation and ammonia refrigeration compliance to protect product integrity and meet regulatory standards.
Budget Planning and Cost Control:
Asset stewardship extends across all site systems, including material handling equipment, power distribution, HVAC, fire suppression, dock equipment, backup generators, and more. You’ll manage life-cycle planning, contractor quality, and budget performance for both OpEx and CapEx. Leveraging Maintenance data and predictive technologies, you’ll drive reliability improvements and reduce total cost of ownership.
Facility Infrastructure Oversight and Project Management:
This role calls for a strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment. You’ll balance multiple priorities, Projects, adapt quickly to change, and lead with clarity and confidence. Your ability to align teams, communicate effectively, and deliver results ensures millions of guests receive the products they need—on time, every time. The core responsibilities of this role are outlined in this description; however, duties may evolve over time to meet changing business needs.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
- Preferred 4-year degree in a relevant technical or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams across designated shifts—including weekends, overnights, and holidays, while ensuring operational continuity, rapid decision-making, and consistent leadership presence in fast-paced environments.
- Exceptional communication, problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, backed by a safety-first mindset and a proven track record of driving operational excellence.
- Skilled in contractor/vendor management, capital project oversight, and ensuring quality, cost, and performance outcomes.
- Proficient in CMMS/EAM systems and PC applications, with strong aptitude for leveraging data and technology to improve reliability and efficiency.
- Highly self-motivated, customer-focused, and results-driven, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Physically able to access all areas of the distribution center, including mezzanines and freezer environments (as low as –15°F).
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Facilities Project Manager
Target industries with ongoing capital projects
Healthcare systems, universities, and corporate real estate teams run continuous facilities programs that justify long-term hires. These employers plan budgets years out, making them more willing to invest in H-1B visa sponsorship for a proven project manager.
Quantify project scope in your resume
Employers evaluate sponsorship ROI. Listing square footage managed, budget overseen, and number of contractors coordinated gives hiring managers concrete evidence your contribution is worth the cost and effort of filing an H-1B petition.
Pursue PMP or LEED credentials during OPT
Certifications like PMP or LEED AP signal professional commitment and reduce the perceived risk of sponsoring you. Many employers require one of these for senior facilities roles, so earning it early strengthens both your application and your sponsorship case.
Apply to employers with an established HR and legal infrastructure
Large facility management firms, hospital networks, and government contractors typically have in-house immigration counsel and standard sponsorship workflows. Smaller contractors may want to sponsor but lack the process to do it efficiently.
Use STEM OPT extension if your degree qualifies
Degrees in civil engineering, construction engineering, or mechanical engineering are STEM-designated, giving you 36 months of authorized work. That timeline covers two H-1B lottery cycles, significantly improving your odds of securing sponsorship before OPT expires.
Engage hiring managers on capital planning timelines
During interviews, ask about multi-year projects in the pipeline. Framing the conversation around long-term program needs positions you as a continued investment, not a short-term hire, which is exactly the argument that makes sponsorship conversations easier to initiate.
Facilities Project Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Facilities Project Manager roles typically qualify for STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your undergraduate or graduate degree, not the job title itself. If your degree is in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, construction engineering, or a related STEM field, you qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. A facilities management or business degree generally does not qualify, so confirm your CIP code with your DSO before counting on the extension.
Is Facilities Project Manager considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as civil engineering, architecture, or construction management. Roles that accept any degree or have no defined field requirement can face challenges meeting the specialty occupation standard. The job description and your employer's stated requirements both matter when USCIS evaluates the petition.
Where can I find Facilities Project Manager jobs that offer OPT sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Facilities Project Manager positions from employers that sponsor work visas, so you can filter specifically for OPT-friendly roles rather than applying broadly and asking about sponsorship later. Targeting employers who have an established sponsorship track record saves time and avoids situations where a willing employer lacks the process to follow through.
Can I work for a facilities management contractor on OPT if I'm placed at a client site?
Yes, but your employment relationship must be with the sponsoring contractor, not the client. On OPT, your employer of record is who signs your paycheck and supervises your work. If the arrangement looks more like the client is directing your day-to-day work independently, it can raise questions about whether you're working in authorized employment. Discuss the structure with your DSO before accepting.
What should I do if my OPT authorization expires before my H-1B takes effect?
If your employer files your H-1B petition by April 1 for an October 1 start date and you have a STEM OPT extension, you're likely covered by cap-gap protection, which automatically extends your work authorization through September 30. Without a STEM extension, you need your OPT to remain valid through the April filing date. Work with your DSO and your employer's immigration counsel as early as possible to map out the exact timeline.