Manager, Facilities

Manager, Facilities

We are seeking a hands-on Facilities Manager to lead maintenance, facilities, and tool room support for our high-volume manufacturing operation in Sanford, NC. This role is responsible for keeping equipment, utilities, tooling, and building systems safe, reliable, compliant, and production-ready.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can solve urgent shop-floor issues while also building better maintenance systems, improving equipment reliability, developing people, managing contractors and capital work, and planning for the long-term health of the facility.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance, Reliability & Tool Room Leadership

• Lead maintenance and tool room activities supporting installation, repair, troubleshooting, and planned maintenance of production equipment, tooling, and facility systems.
• Improve equipment reliability by reducing unplanned downtime, eliminating recurring failures, and driving structured root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Strengthen preventive and condition-based maintenance practices using CMMS data, equipment history, and reliability indicators.
• Oversee tool room workflow supporting molding and machining tooling repair, modification, fabrication, and improvement work.
• Maintain readiness of tool room equipment, including CNC equipment, lathes, mills, grinders, and EDM equipment; develop repair, replacement, and upgrade plans as needed.
• Coordinate priorities with operations, engineering, quality, and production leadership to ensure work is completed safely, effectively, and with minimal disruption.

Facilities, Utilities & Infrastructure

• Own the maintenance and improvement of facility systems including HVAC, building envelope, grounds, power distribution, lighting, compressed air, water, and other plant infrastructure.
• Serve as a key site contact for public utilities, service providers, contractors, and specialized repair vendors.
• Drive utility cost reduction and energy efficiency through sound operating practices, consumption trend review, and improvement projects.
• Ensure facility systems support a safe, compliant, and stable production environment.

Capital Projects, Contractors & Asset Planning

• Manage capital projects from scope definition through installation, commissioning, and turnover to maintenance.
• Develop long-term plans for asset replacement, obsolescence risk, and maintenance investment based on business need, reliability risk, and lifecycle condition.
• Manage contractor and vendor relationships, including janitorial, grounds, construction, specialized maintenance, and repair services.
• Ensure contractors follow site safety requirements, permitting expectations, insurance requirements, and scope controls.
• Confirm that physical installations and modifications meet safety, regulatory, and internal standards.

Safety, People Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Build and maintain a strong safety culture across facilities, maintenance, and tool room areas.
• Ensure safe working conditions, strong housekeeping, and compliance with applicable safety procedures, including LOTO, arc flash, and safety planning for non-standard work.
• Coach, develop, and engage associates to build technical skill, ownership, and accountability.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts that reduce waste, improve response time, increase equipment availability, and improve shop-floor execution.
• Promote accurate work order documentation, failure coding, parts usage, and maintenance history to support better decisions.
• Use available digital tools, data, and emerging technologies where practical to improve training, documentation, troubleshooting, and reliability.

Key Measures of Success

• Safety performance, hazard reduction, and contractor compliance.
• Reduction in unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures.
• Planned maintenance execution and schedule compliance.
• CMMS data quality, work order discipline, and maintenance history accuracy.
• Tool room responsiveness and capability.
• Utility cost and energy consumption improvement.
• Capital project delivery against scope, cost, schedule, and performance expectations.
• Team capability, engagement, and associate development.

• Bachelor's…