Facilities Operations Manager

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Are you ready to lead facilities operations with a strategic edge? As a Facilities Operations Manager, you will act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Koch businesses, ensuring the delivery of facilities services that address operational challenges and align with business objectives. This role requires you to build and maintain proactive relationships with key stakeholders across diverse functions, ensuring alignment with their evolving business priorities and operational needs.

By leveraging your expertise in facilities management, operational service delivery, and the application of Principle Based Management® (PBM®), you will collaborate to craft innovative and tailored solutions, while embedding Principle Based Management® (PBM®) to deliver value across a diverse and dynamic environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence Koch’s integrated Land, Infrastructure, Facilities, and Transactions (LIFT) service delivery model and help transform how we support our people and workplaces globally.

From identifying strategic real estate opportunities to optimizing spaces and managing facilities, the LIFT team provides full real estate lifecycle services. We’re global in scale and local in focus. Our unique blend of expertise, global perspective on industry trends and data-driven insights can turn real estate into a strategic asset that helps drive transformative business changes for customers.

• Build Strategic Partnerships:
  Act as a proactive, trusted advisor by cultivating strong relationships with business leaders across operations, HR, and other functions to align facility services with evolving priorities.
• Workplace Strategy and Advisory:
  Collaborate with LIFT work streams to enhance workplace experiences and integrate facilities solutions that support business goals and employee engagement through modernization of employee workplaces, amenities and site enhancement strategies.
• Operational Excellence:
  Conduct site visits and assessments across North America to tailor LIFT facility solutions that address both economic and operational challenges.
• Leverage PBM® & Market Insights:
  Model Principle Based Management® to influence decisions, while monitoring facilities and workplace trends to anticipate impacts and recommend improvements.
• Champion Continuous Improvement:
  Identify and implement process innovations to drive efficiencies and elevate service delivery.
• Collaborate Across Teams:
  Work seamlessly with LIFT operations and subject matter experts to provide comprehensive facilities support while balancing market and economic factors.

• Experience leading teams or projects in facilities management/services, workplace advisory, corporate real estate, or employee experience
• Experience simplifying and communicating complex concepts effectively across all organization levels
• Experience working in a service-oriented environment, subject to frequently changing priorities
• Willingness to travel (Approx. 30-40%)

• Experience working with a high sense of urgency to achieve stakeholder objectives
• Experience with facilities management in a manufacturing environment
• Experience successfully influencing, coaching and developing a geographically dispersed team

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