Director, Global Facilities Engineering

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The Director, Global Facilities Engineering is a senior executive leader responsible for the strategic oversight, governance, and operation of the global facilities engineering and real estate portfolio supporting a global life sciences manufacturing network. This role provides enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of manufacturing, laboratory, warehouse, and office facilities, ensuring infrastructure, utilities, and capital programs reliably enable safe, compliant, and efficient manufacturing operations.

The Director oversees owned and leased facilities globally, driving facilities strategy aligned with business growth, operational excellence, and regulatory requirements.

Operating within a highly matrixed global organization, the Director leads facilities management governance, capital engineering execution, and real estate portfolio optimization while maintaining full P&L accountability for a large-scale annual operating and capital budget. The role partners closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Finance, and IT to ensure facilities and infrastructure support business continuity, capacity expansion, and long-term enterprise value creation.

• Own the global real estate and facilities portfolio
  , including leased and owned assets across manufacturing, laboratories, warehouses, and office environments.
• Lead lease administration, renewals, negotiations, portfolio optimization, and exit strategies
  in partnership with Legal and Finance.
• Provide executive-level insight into portfolio utilization, capacity, risk, cost structure, and lifecycle planning
  .
• Support site selection, expansion, consolidation, and manufacturing footprint optimization initiatives.

• Establish and govern enterprise-wide facilities management (FM) standards
  , policies, and performance metrics.
• Define and own the insource vs. outsource strategy
  for facilities operations, maintenance, and technical services.
• Lead and influence a matrix organization
  , coordinating closely with:
  • Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) service providers
  • Capital Engineering and Project Management teams
  • Corporate EHS / EOHSS
  • Global Energy & Sustainability
  • IT, Security, and other enabling functions
• Manage global FM vendors and service providers, ensuring SLA performance, cost control, and service consistency
  across regions.

• Lead a global team of project engineers responsible for executing large, complex capital projects
  in regulated life sciences manufacturing environments, including:
  • New manufacturing facilities and expansions
  • Process, cleanroom, and utility infrastructure upgrades
  • Capacity expansion and automation enablement
  • Compliance remediation and site modernization
• Develop and execute long-range asset management and capital investment strategies
  aligned with manufacturing demand and product pipelines.
• Ensure capital projects are delivered on time, on budget, safely, and in compliance
  with GMP, FDA, ISO, and local regulatory requirements.

• Drive cost-efficient facilities operations while enabling manufacturing performance, reliability, and compliance.
• Lead transformation initiatives that streamline facilities operations and deliver measurable cost savings and productivity improvements
  .
• Optimize total cost of ownership through portfolio rationalization, energy efficiency, vendor leverage, and lifecycle optimization
  .

• Oversee regulatory compliance and risk management
  across all facilities, ensuring adherence to GMP, FDA, ISO, EHS, and local regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Operations to ensure facilities infrastructure supports validated manufacturing and uninterrupted production
  .
• Develop and implement business continuity and disaster recovery plans
  to protect critical manufacturing operations and supply continuity.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global, multi-site team
  of facilities engineering and capital project professionals.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
  .
• Build scalable organizational structures capable of supporting growth, acquisitions, and geographic expansion.

• Collaborate with senior executives to align facilities engineering and real estate strategy with manufacturing, supply chain, and corporate growth objectives
  .
• Serve as the enterprise authority for facilities engineering, and real…