We are partnering with a leading global technology manufacturer to identify a Director of Facilities Engineering who will lead a large-scale facilities organization supporting a highly complex manufacturing ecosystem. This is a strategic leadership role with responsibility for site-wide facilities operations, engineering excellence, capital projects, sustainability initiatives, and long-term infrastructure planning.
The successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient facility operations while enabling business growth through world-class engineering and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for facilities engineering, maintenance, utilities, and infrastructure operations across a large manufacturing campus.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of critical facility systems including electrical, mechanical, HVAC, process utilities, water treatment, gas distribution, compressed air, fire protection systems, and building management systems.
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of major capital expansion projects, infrastructure upgrades, and facility modernization initiatives.
- Develop and execute long-term facilities strategies aligned with business growth, operational requirements, and sustainability objectives.
- Drive operational excellence programs focused on reliability, cost optimization, energy efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Establish strong governance over facilities maintenance, asset management, risk management, and business continuity planning.
- Collaborate closely with manufacturing, EHS, project management, procurement, and senior leadership teams to support operational objectives.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory, environmental, safety, and corporate standards.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing facilities engineering organization comprising managers, engineers, and technical specialists.
- Manage substantial operating and capital budgets while balancing cost, quality, reliability, and capacity requirements.
- Champion sustainability, energy conservation, carbon reduction, and environmental stewardship initiatives across the site.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Facilities, or related discipline); advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive facilities engineering and operations leadership experience within semiconductor, electronics manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, data center, pharmaceutical, or similar highly regulated environments.
- Proven experience managing large-scale facilities operations with critical utility infrastructure and complex engineering systems.
- Demonstrated success leading major capital projects, facility expansions, greenfield developments, or large infrastructure programs.
- Strong understanding of facilities reliability, asset management, utilities engineering, energy management, and operational excellence methodologies.
- Experience managing large engineering organizations and influencing senior executive stakeholders.
- Track record of driving safety, compliance, operational performance, and organizational transformation
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing significant operational and capital expenditures.
What Makes This Opportunity Unique
- Executive-level leadership role with broad ownership of facilities engineering and site infrastructure.
- Opportunity to influence long-term site strategy, expansion, and operational excellence initiatives.