Director, Critical Facilities Engineering

Director, Critical Facilities Engineering

• Full-time
• Salary Range:
  
  -
• Job Type (exemption status):
  Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Business Function:
  Facilities

• Own reliability and performance of all mission‑critical systems
  , including power distribution, substations, generators, UPS/CPS, cooling plants, process utilities, and life‑safety systems.
• Establish and enforce global standards for redundancy, capacity management, maintenance, testing, and commissioning
  .
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions for critical incidents, outages, or near‑miss events
  .
• Define and maintain global Critical Facilities Engineering standards
  , design guidelines, and operating procedures.
• Own the critical facilities risk register
  , including single points of failure, deferred maintenance risk, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, OSHA, local AHJs, and internal governance).

• Provide technical governance and performance oversight of IFM partners delivering critical facilities operations and maintenance.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and audit mechanisms for preventive maintenance, emergency response, and system availability.
• Act as escalation authority for high‑risk operational decisions affecting uptime or safety.

• Own the long‑term capital roadmap for critical infrastructure upgrades, renewals, and expansions.
• Partner with Finance and Facilities Leadership on Cap Ex prioritization, business cases, and risk‑based investment decisions
  .
• Ensure assets are managed through full lifecycle planning, including end‑of‑life strategies and redundancy planning.
• Provide engineering leadership for new builds, expansions, major retrofits, and capacity upgrades affecting critical systems.
• Ensure rigorous design review, FAT/SAT, integrated systems testing (IST), and commissioning before turnover.
• Approve deviations from standards based on documented risk assessments.

• Partner with CREW and site leadership to ensure BCP, ERP, and emergency power strategies are robust and tested.
• Lead readiness for utility failures, extreme weather events, and regional disruptions impacting critical infrastructure.

• Lead and develop a global Critical Facilities Engineering function (directs and/or matrixed).
• Establish training, certification, and succession planning for critical facilities expertise.
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter authority for critical infrastructure decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Facilities Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, fabs, labs, or mission‑critical environments
  .
• Proven leadership of high‑risk infrastructure operations with zero‑tolerance for unplanned downtime.
• Strong knowledge of electrical power systems, emergency generation, UPS, cooling, and controls.
• Experience governing outsourced or IFM delivery models.

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.
  
  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to…