Corporate Facilities Director and Project Manager

Company Intro

Are you a skilled building and maintenance professional with a strong work ethic and extensive hands‑on experience? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team at Lafayette Hotels? If you answered yes, we want to hear from you.

Lafayette Hotels, a renowned family‑owned and operated company with over 30 hotels and restaurants throughout Maine and New Hampshire, is seeking an honest and hardworking Corporate Facilities Director and Project Manager to join our team. With properties in stunning locations such as Maine's Acadia National Park, the Southern Maine Beaches, and New Hampshire's White Mountains, Lafayette Hotels offers a perfect blend of work and adventure.

The Corporate Facilities Director and Project Manager is responsible for keeping our buildings in top condition, overseeing major construction projects across the company and working directly with our GMs and Head of Facilities at each of our locations to improve systems and processes. The best candidate for the job has built buildings, knows building codes and has the organizational, technical and leadership skills to create and implement quality control systems across all of our facilities.

If a GM or Head of Facilities can't solve a problem, you'll help them figure it out. How many square feet of asphalt roof do we have under management? We'd like to know.

We have properties as far north at Bar Harbor and as far south as Hampton Beach, NH. We have some flexibility on work location with a preference for a home base in the Greater Portland area.

• Periodic property Fire, Life, Safety audits and inspections
• Develop short and long term facility upgrade plans and budgets
• Work with property GMs and Head of Facilities to implement systems, address issues and fix problems
• Project planning, budgeting and management - major renovations, major system upgrades, new buildings
• Bidding out major projects and negotiating best pricing
• Material cost and purchasing analysis
• Building and maintaining vendor relationships
• Projects assigned by management

• Yankee Ingenuity
• 10 years construction experience - we want to see and hear about the projects you've done
• Success managing large teams
• Self Motivated - you get personal satisfaction from overcoming obstacles and accomplishment
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Strong computer and excel skills - budgets, systems, tracking, financial modeling etc. Experience with project management software a plus.
• Willingness to travel to multiple job sites as needed
• Willingness to swing a hammer and help out when appropriate
• Extensive hands‑on building experience
• Knowledge/experience with any/all of the following: electrical, plumbing, construction/carpentry, & HVAC
• Ability to push or pull 50 pounds and lift and/or carry 50 pounds

Lafayette Hotels is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Lafayette Hotels has over 30 family owned and operated hotels and restaurants throughout Maine and New Hampshire. With properties to gather, relax and enjoy time everywhere you want to be.
From Maine’s Acadia National Park to New Hampshire’s White Mountains… Lafayette Hotels has great locations for your next adventure.