Director, Environmental Services

The NC State University Facilities Division is home to nearly 900 professionals who plan, build, and maintain the spaces that foster an environment where innovation, learning, and community thrive. Through this work, we help create spaces that empower students, faculty, and staff to reach their full potential. Operating year-round, we manage more than 16.7 million gross square feet of built space and oversee 4,733 acres of campus infrastructure through a series of core departments, each composed of multiple specialized units:

• Campus Planning and Strategic Investment (plan)
• Design & Construction (build)
• Campus Operations and Maintenance (maintain)
• Business Operations (core support services)

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• Childcare benefits
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The Director of Environmental Services provides strategic leadership and overall management for a large, varied department delivering environmental services across academic, athletics, housing, hospital, research, dining, and other campus facilities. This position leads approximately 320 permanent employees and 20–40 temporary staff while overseeing a $17 million annual operating budget. In this highly visible leadership role, you will guide departmental strategy, strengthen operational performance, manage financial and workforce resources, advance sustainability initiatives, and ensure high‑quality services that support the evolving needs of the university.

• Provide strategic leadership and overall direction for Environmental Services
  , developing short- and long-term business plans that align departmental operations, services, and resources with university priorities.
• Lead and develop a varied workforce of approximately 320 permanent full‑time employees and 20–40 temporary staff, including departmental leaders and managers, while fostering accountability, collaboration, professional growth, and a strong service‑oriented culture.
• Oversee the department’s approximately $17 million annual operating budget, including financial planning, long‑range fiscal allocations, resource management, and identification of appropriate funding sources for operational and workforce needs.
• Direct environmental services across a complex campus environment that includes academic, athletics, housing, hospital, research, dining, and other university facilities.
• Provide oversight for a broad range of services, including housekeeping, floor care, pest control, indoor recycling, relamping, Universal Waste Disposal, and other specialized environmental services.
• Develop, negotiate, and administer complex vendor contracts and service agreements, including contracted housekeeping, window washing, specialized floor care, and other outsourced services, while monitoring cost, quality, and performance expectations.
• Establish and maintain departmental policies, standard operating procedures, service‑level agreements, quality standards, and reporting practices to support consistent and responsive service delivery across campus.
• Oversee recruitment, selection, performance management, employee relations, training, and workforce development while ensuring…