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Building Management Services Specialist Family

Career series with 8 positions across 4 levels

Building Management Services Specialist is a career-ladder family in New Jersey civil service, with 8 titles spanning 4 levels.

Entry is typically through Building Management Services Specialist 1, advancing through the ladder toward Building Management Services Specialist 4. Pay across the family spans $58,222 to $134,900, around the 64th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 90 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Health and Senior Services.

Building Management Services Specialist reports to supervising titles such as Assistant Director of Nursing Services and Director of Nursing Services.

8
Positions
4
Career Levels
Salary Range: $58,222 - $134,900/year

Positions in This Family

What the Building Management Services Specialist family covers

New Jersey classifies Building Management Services Specialist as a 4-level series holding 8 separate title codes. The family straddles jurisdictions: 6 state and 2 both state and local, so parts of it are hired by state departments and parts by local civil service employers.

Chief, director, manager and supervisor are not single jobs in New Jersey civil service. They are ranks applied across the whole of government, so a single family can hold hundreds of codes covering entirely unrelated bureaus. That structure matters for anyone reading the pay figures: two titles in the same family may share nothing except a level of responsibility. Most of these positions are managerial or unclassified, which means salaries are set individually rather than by stepping through a published ladder, and the managerial schedule itself has been frozen since 2007.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Building Management Services Specialist family stacks up as follows. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.

The distance from the bottom of Building Management Services Specialist 1 to the top of Building Management Services Specialist 4 is $76,678, an increase of about 132% over the entry minimum.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 8 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a master's degree on 8 of them. Stated experience runs from 1 year at the lowest rung to 3 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

On how the jobs are filled: 8 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.

Who actually employs these titles

State payroll records show 90 people working under 4 of this family's titles, spread across 16 agencies. Health and Senior Services alone accounts for about 18% of them.

  • Health and Senior Services — 16 employees
  • Law and Public Safety — 14 employees
  • Treasury — 12 employees
  • Human Services — 9 employees
  • Children and Families — 9 employees
  • Labor — 8 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 16 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $66,511 for Building Management Services Specialist 1 up to $116,402 for Building Management Services Specialist 4. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.

State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.

How the pay is set

Titles in this family are paid on the A-P-R-S salary schedule. See every step in that schedule. Bargaining is handled by CWA. Union contracts and rights are collected here.

Where these jobs exist

Because the family mixes jurisdictions, the answer to "who hires this" depends on the specific code. State codes run through the Civil Service Commission's announcement and eligible list process; local codes are hired by the counties, municipalities and authorities that adopted civil service under Title 11A. Check an employer's status before assuming a title is available where you live.

Related titles elsewhere in the plan

Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Building Management Services Specialist.

Common questions about Building Management Services Specialist jobs

How many Building Management Services Specialist titles are there in New Jersey civil service?

The Building Management Services Specialist family holds 8 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

What does a Building Management Services Specialist earn in New Jersey?

Published salary data for this family runs from $58,222 at the bottom of Building Management Services Specialist 1 to $134,900 at the top of Building Management Services Specialist 4. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.

Do you need to take an exam to become a Building Management Services Specialist?

Yes for most of the family. 8 of the 8 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.

What qualifications does a Building Management Services Specialist need?

The most common education requirement in this family is a master's degree, named on 8 of the 8 titles. Stated experience ranges from 1 to 3 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Building Management Services Specialist staff?

State payroll records show 90 people in this family across 16 agencies, with Health and Senior Services the largest at 16. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.