Facility Manager practice interview
Building services reliability, preventive maintenance, vendor performance, safety, budgets and continuity during utility failures. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview assesses whether you can keep a facility safe, functional and resilient while controlling vendors and operating costs. The panel wants practical evidence of preventive maintenance, emergency response, accurate records and clear communication with occupants and decision makers.
How to prepare
- Review the critical building systems you have managed and the failure risks attached to each one.
- Prepare an example of improving a preventive maintenance plan or reducing repeat faults.
- Think through your response to loss of power, water, cooling or another essential service.
- Revise how you set vendor service levels, verify completed work and challenge poor performance.
- Be ready to explain how risk and asset criticality influence budget priorities.
Common mistakes
- Focusing only on emergency repairs and showing no preventive maintenance discipline.
- Accepting vendor reports without checking the asset, work order or service outcome.
- Cutting maintenance scope without explaining the safety and continuity risks.
- Leaving occupants without useful updates during a prolonged service disruption.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
More operations practice
ProHead of Facilities Management
Portfolio maintenance strategy, service continuity, contractor governance, safety, budgets and occupier experience.
OperationsProperty Manager
Tenant relations, rent and service charge administration, repairs, contractor control, inspections and owner reporting.
OperationsProProperty Manager (Commercial Real Estate)
Tenant relations, service charge control, lease obligations, building operations and protection of commercial asset value.