Head of Facility Management and Maintenance: Training, overview of schools, self-test

Further training to become a Head of Facility Management and Maintenance is part-time and takes 1.5 or 2 years. Lessons often take place either on a fixed weekday or on Friday afternoons and individual Saturdays. However, lesson times vary from school to school. In principle, you can continue to work alongside your studies. A workload of up to 80% is often recommended. If you would like to work more, find out about the teaching models at various schools.

Thanks to a survey of training graduates, we have a benchmark for the amount of self-study required for facility management training. According to this survey, graduates of further training courses spent the following amount of time per week on self-study:

• 1 percent less than 1 h
• 8 percent 1 - 2 h
• 20 percent 3 - 4 h
• 18 percent 5 - 6 h
• 19 percent 7 - 8 h
• 11 percent 9 - 10 h
• 8 percent 11 - 15 h
• 15 percent more than 15 h

Die Ausbildung zur neuen höheren Fachprüfung «Leiterin / Leiter Facility Management und Maintenance» besteht aus folgenden 7 Modulen, die einzeln abgeschlossen werden:

Mitarbeitende führen – Interne  / externe Kommunikation – Normative Grundlagen und Sicherheitsvorschriften anwenden – Verantwortungsbereich organisieren – Verantwortungsbereich finanziell steuern – Persönliche Kompetenzen weiterentwickeln – Dienstleistungen erbringen und einkaufen.

Diese Modulabschlüsse sind eine Voraussetzung für die Zulassung zur eidg. Abschlussprüfung als Leiterin / Leiter Facility Management und Maintenance. Diese besteht aus der Kurzpräsentation und einem Expertengespräch zur eigenen Diplomarbeit, einem Expertengespräch zu ausgewählten Themen des Lernstoffes und der schriftlichen Bearbeitung eines Falles (Business-Case)

For admission to the federal higher professional examination as Head of Facility Management and Maintenance

• a federal certificate or other higher professional education qualification (HFP, HF or FH) and at least two years of relevant professional experience in facility management and maintenance
• or an apprenticeship certificate or a vocational, technical or high school diploma and at least five years of relevant professional experience in facility management and maintenance, including at least two years of management experience

required.

According to a survey on our education platform, the respondents' last training was so long ago (date of graduation):

• 17 percent under one year
• 7 percent one year
• 14 percent two to four years
• 24 percent five to ten years
• 10 percent more than ten years
• 28 percent have never done any further training

These answers show roughly who completed training in Facility Management and Maintenance and how long ago.

There are two options for admission to the new higher professional examination (HFP) for Head of Facility Management and Maintenance:

• A federal diploma or higher education qualification (HFP, HF or FH) and at least two years of professional experience in a facility management or maintenance field
• An apprenticeship certificate or a secondary school leaving certificate (high school diploma, vocational or technical baccalaureate) and at least five years of professional experience in a facility management or maintenance field, including at least two years in a management position.

If you have passed a federal professional examination, a higher professional examination, a higher technical college or a university of applied sciences, you need two years of professional experience in facility management and maintenance to be admitted to the higher professional examination for Head of Facility Management and Maintenance.

If you have completed an apprenticeship or have a vocational, technical or high school diploma, you will need five years of professional experience in facility management and maintenance, two of which must be in a management role.