Senior Manager - Facilities

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)

Time Type: Full‑time

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in.

As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth‑focused environment for our people.

The Distribution Engineering team enables lululemon’s North America fulfillment network to operate safely, efficiently and at scale by delivering engineering expertise and technical solutions that support our distribution centers. The organization is built on three core pillars:
Campus Engineering, which supports day to day distribution operations and continuous improvement across our campuses; MHE and Automation Engineering, which designs and advances our automation and material handling roadmap; and Facilities, which ensures the reliability and maintenance of our distribution center infrastructure.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering & Facilities, the Senior Manager, Facilities is responsible for our Facilities teams across all our Distribution Centers in North America. They will drive partnership and collaboration between DC Operations and cross functional partners to improve DC efficiency and uptime. The Senior Manager, Facilities will oversee building projects, renovations, refurbishments, and installations as well as ensure preventative maintenance and repairs on all equipment.

They will be responsible for making decisions related to staffing, technology, efficiency, vendor selection, compliance and decision related to unforeseen issues that arise in the DCs. This role will ensure consistency, training, execution, and capability across our regions, elevating our existing teams to support our DC operations and aggressive capacity expansion. This role plays a business‑critical role ensuring DCs remain operational and in compliance with local regulations, statutes and ordinances.

• Provide strategic leadership for Facilities operations across lululemon’s North American Distribution Center network to ensure safe, compliant and highly reliable operations.
• Lead the development and execution of a network-wide facilities and asset management strategy encompassing building systems, material handling equipment (MHE), controls systems, utility systems and critical facility assets.
• Establish and drive standardized maintenance and reliability programs across all distribution centers, including preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, asset criticality methodologies and lifecycle management practices.
• Own the North America Facilities operating model, driving consistency in processes, technician capabilities, maintenance standards, safety programs, training, vendor management and CMMS utilization across the network.
• Provide leadership and governance for enterprise CMMS systems, maintenance planning, asset data integrity, performance reporting, inventory management and continuous improvement initiatives that improve equipment uptime and technician productivity.
• Partner closely with Distribution Operations, Distribution Engineering, Automation Engineering, Technology, FP&A, Health and Safety, Construction and Distribution leadership teams to maximize operational performance and minimize facility or equipment downtime.
• Serve as the Facilities functional leader for new distribution center launches, expansions, retrofits, automation deployments and major capital improvement projects.
• Own the Facilities capital planning process, including development of multi‑year asset replacement strategies, infrastructure investment roadmaps, business cases and prioritization of capital expenditures across the network.
• Manage Facilities…