Jacob Nielson
Nauvoo
Summary
Senior facilities management professional with over 10 years of experience leading complex commercial and industrial facilities. Trusted functional expert in contractor and vendor management, coordinating multi-trade service providers, capital projects, and mixed workforces to ensure compliance with design standards, schedules, budgets, and documentation requirements. Proven leader in managing third-party relationships, overseeing preventive maintenance and repair programs, and delivering capital R&I projects from planning through closeout, with thorough reporting, recordkeeping, and as-built documentation. Currently serving in temple facilities operations, upholding First Presidency standards, while ensuring facilities reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Temple Facilities Assistant
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Nauvoo
2025.10 - Current
- Uphold First Presidency standards in maintaining the Temple and facilities, delivering a sacred, reverent, and distraction-free environment that enables patrons to focus on bringing souls unto Christ through temple ordinances.
- Serve as key technical resource for operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting air handling, heating/cooling, baptismal font purification and related mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to maximize efficiency and reliability.
- Provide hands-on repairs and ongoing maintenance for 60 missionary apartments.
- Monitor and interpret system data/performance to identify improvement opportunities, support preventative maintenance best practices, and contribute to operational excellence.
Facilities & Property Manager
The Gathering Place
Jameson
2024.07 - 2025.10
- Developed and implemented Preventative maintenance program for 120-acre estate including main house, outbuildings, landscaped areas and access roads.
- Managed inventory control, material storage, and resource allocation while overseeing quality inspections and preparing facilities for guest use.
Field Inspector
Timber Products Inspection
Peachtree City
2020.02 - 2022.03
- Provided expert-level consultation through audits, data analysis, and corrective action planning across multiple manufacturing disciplines and states.
- Trained management and staff on industry standards, processes, and best practices to ensure compliance and system performance.
- Managed audit data, documentation, and reporting using specialized software programs.
Scanner Technician
Lucidyne Technologies
Corvallis
2018.01 - 2020.02
- Lead contract groups onsite to ensure proper installation of mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
- Assembled, installed, calibrated, and serviced automated lumber grading systems for domestic and international clients.
- Provided on-site and remote support, training customers on operation, calibration, repairs, and troubleshooting of complex mechanical and electrical systems and integration.
Production Supervisor
Georgia-Pacific
Philomath
2010.10 - 2016.07
- Oversaw production crews of up to 30 employees in sawmill and planer operations overseeing safety, production and staffing.
- Developed KPI dashboards to monitor reliability, downtime, and maintenance effectiveness.
- Managed and implemented preventative maintenance and operator basic care/best practice programs via maintenance management system software.
- Improved reliability through root cause failure analysis and developed corrective actions and justified/oversaw capital improvements to minimize downtime and extend equipment life.
- Trained staff on machine centers, tasks, and self-reliance, building employee development programs.
Education
Diploma -
Philomath High School
01.2006
Skills
- Team leadership
- Vender management and coordination
- Preventive maintenance best practices
- Preventive maintenance software implementation
- Problem solving
- Continuous improvement
- Training
- Consultative services
- Technical advisory
- Training development
- Employee development
- Facilities inspection
- Safety compliance
- Regulatory compliance
References
- Wade Ryser, Area Temple Facilities Manager, (801) 803-1416
- Mike Shurtleff, Temple facilities Manager, Nauvoo Temple, (217) 357-1614
Timeline
Temple Facilities Assistant
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
2025.10 - Current
Facilities & Property Manager
The Gathering Place
2024.07 - 2025.10
Field Inspector
Timber Products Inspection
2020.02 - 2022.03
Scanner Technician
Lucidyne Technologies
2018.01 - 2020.02
Production Supervisor
Georgia-Pacific
2010.10 - 2016.07
Diploma -
Philomath High School